Filed under: concerts & gigs, events & gatherings | Tags: darlene zschech araneta 2010, darlene zschech concert, hillsong concert manila 2010, touching heaven worship night
Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong Worship Team led thousands of filipinos in worship and celebration, Tuesday night, at the Araneta Coliseum. Darlene Zschech and team touched heaven and filled the coliseum with their beautiful music. Paving the way for filipinos to freely lift their arms and sing aloud, worshipping and praising God in one voice.
(photo credit: cristina panizales and append.com.ph)
Darlene Zschech is one of my all time favorite worship leaders. She composed the songs: ‘Shout to the Lord’ and ‘I will run to you,’ and popularized the song, ‘Power of Your Love’ which continues to be played over the airwaves via local radio stations. She also penned several books like ‘Extravagant Worship’ and ‘The Kiss of Heaven’ wherein she boldly stated that “although music is a wonderful expression of worship, it is not in itself the essence of it.” To that statement made by Darlence Zschech, I strongly concur!
(photo credit: cristina panizales)
I hope there will be more events like ‘Touching Heaven Worship Night.’ I also pray that there will be more people like Darlene Zschech who has a kind heart, willing and able to give their time and talent in order to help filipinos in need. The concert event was presented by Append and all proceeds will go to Adopt a Family Program.
(photo credit: cristina panizales)
You may also want to read the post: Hillsong United Live Concert in Manila held last May 2008.
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Date: April 20, 2010
Time: 8:00PM
Venue: Araneta Coliseum
Ticket Price: Php 3,000 . Php 2,500 . Php 1,150 . Php 380
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Filed under: concerts & gigs, events & gatherings, leadership & youth | Tags: passion 2008 manila, passion 2010 manila
Remember Passion Manila 2008? The long lines outside Philippine Sports Arena (Ultra), the amazing worship experience, and the hearts that were changed and renewed for Jesus!
Yes, I was blessed to be part of Passion Manila 2008. As a Passion Volunteer two years ago, working behind the scenes and volunteering my time during the event was truly a remarkable and memorable experience for me. Met a handful of fantastic Passion Conference Staff and youth leaders from other churches.
This year, a new milestone will happen at the Araneta Coliseum on May 25, 2010. As Louie Giglio, Chris Tomlin, and Kristian Stanfill brings together young people from all around the archipelago in one amazing night of worship and celebration.
Passion Conference Live will start at 7:30pm. A rare chance to see tens of thousands of filipino young people gathering at the Big Dome committed to glorify God! Get your tickets now for only Php 200 in all sections. Patron and lower box sections are now closed. Upper box A tickets are still available. Contact Becca Music Office at 9105524 or 9105352.
For upper Box B and General Admission tickets, proceed to all Ticketnet outlets or call 91145555. Log on to Passion World Tour or Becca Music for more details.
Filed under: book nook, leadership & youth | Tags: spencer johnson, who moved my cheese
Who Moved My Cheese? was brilliantly written by Spencer Johnson, the narrative is pretty simple and entertaining. After reading this book, it became one of my all time favorites. I recently recommended this book to my ten year old niece. I know it can be easily understood and appreciated by people of different age range, gender, and backgrounds.
The story of the book is about four mice size characters living inside a maze faced with the challenge of changing and adapting to unexpected situations. Two of the characters are people named Hem and Haw, while the other two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. One morning they all woke up to find that their cheese are gone, hence the title, “Who Moved My Cheese?”
The book is a cute story that actually represents different types of people in our society. Those who can easily adapt to change and those who have a hard time and sometimes tries to fight change. Hem represents those who feel they are treated unfairly and are paralyzed whenever there is change happening. Sniff and Scurry represents those people who can easily adapt to change. Haw on the other hand typifies individuals who starts to analyze things, tries to comprehend the reason behind the change before venturing out into the unknown, and eventually going with the flow of change.
In any team or group, there will always be a Sniff & Scurry and a Hem & Haw. Even in youth ministry, I can see that there are young people who are paralyzed and finds it hard to adapt to change while others are careful and consciously considering everything, trying to evaluate first the situation, before venturing out and dealing with the changes. I guess most of us try to resist change because we are afraid of the unknown, young people are no exceptions. We dearly love and value security and assurance but the fact is, change is the only thing that we can count on. Change is inevitable. We can cry all we want, complain all we want, but change will still occur. Change is not always good and most change doesn’t happen overnight, but sometimes it can definitely lead to something better.
I hope every youth minister or leader, even young people will get to read this book, especially those who are experiencing change. It can enlighten and give a person a new perspective on changing and adapting. I love each and every “handwriting on the wall” made by Haw because it contains simple facts. Allow me to share five of my favorite reflections (handwriting on the wall):
(1) The more important your cheese is to you the more you want to hold on to it.
“Isn’t this true? The things we deem as dear or important are like slipping sands in our hand, the more that we try to tightly hold on to them?”
(2) What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
“Ah, the universal question. What would you do if fear is not an option?”
(3) When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.
“Freedom is usually found when we conquer our fear.”
(4) The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese
(Chuckles) “New cheese smells better! When we free our hands with old things, we actually prepare it to take on new things.”
(5) Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger changes that are to come.
“It’s best to be aware of tiny changes and expect the inevitable than to wake up one day in complete shock. You’ll require immediate and severe resuscitation!”
Nice reflections, right? Pretty simple but quite truthful. This book encourages the reader to view or see change in a different perspective, when a person views it in a different way, it helps the individual to cope better with change. This book is a bestseller that helped change lives! I totally recommend it, there’s a movie based on the book. It’s being utilized by different companies and organizations to help their employees understand change.
(video credit: Red Tree and whomovedmycheese.com)
Filed under: book nook, leadership & youth | Tags: good to great, jim collins
GOOD TO GREAT: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
Book Review by: Joy Isaguirre
Any book that began as a thought experiment and took five years in the making (research and writing) by a team of 20 researchers plus its author, Jim Collins, certainly deserves a great deal of attention.
My love affair with this book started when I read the first few pages. The moment it said, “The timeless principles of good to great. It’s about how you take a good organization and turn it into one that produces sustained great results.”1 I knew right then and there that it’s what I’ve been looking for, and it’s the kind of book that I really need.
(image credit: jimcollins.com)
The First Chapter is entitled ‘Good is the Enemy of Great.’
How appropriately titled and said. In a world wherein most people settle for what is good or mediocre, this book reminded me that it is alright to aim for greater things. Not simply to fan the desire and aspire for greater things, but to show that there is a way, a framework, a path that I can actually follow in order to start helping people in the journey towards greatness.
The Second Chapter is one of my favorites from the book. It speaks about the embodiment of a Level 5 Leader, the kind of leader that we truly need but rarely see nowadays. Modest, trains their successors in order to achieve greater things, and not the celebrity type of leaders that we often see in organizations today. While reading this chapter, two names came to mind. I believe that if we have more of this kind of Level 5 Leaders serving in different organizations, especially in the government, the Philippines and the next generation will not only prosper but will become great again.
Our church is currently in a transitional period. Most of the elderly people and a lot of the leaders either have gone abroad or have established daughter churches wherein they are now serving full time. What’s left is our dedicated senior pastors on the brink of retirement, committed and supportive but clueless elders/deacons, and a group of talented + funny + dedicated + kids who undeniably have great potentials but doesn’t know their purpose or have a clear direction.
It is very timely that I got to read this book. It’s both a blessing and a great source of encouragement for me. It answered some of my long standing questions and confirmed some of my views regarding organizations and leadership.
The Third Chapter speaks about getting the right people on the bus, getting the wrong people off the bus (which I found out years back is very difficult for our leaders in the church to do), and then figuring where to drive the bus. A perfect example of this situation was mentioned in Chapter 3, wherein Wells Fargo acquired Crocker Bank back in 1984. They made some annual cut, regardless of tenure or position. This may come out as ruthless to some but in the end it worked and made remarkable difference in that company.
As one Wells Fargo executive aptly puts it, “The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.”2 It is very exhausting to be working with good people but on the wrong position. In small local churches today, there seems to be a wrong mindset that as long as the person serving is a pastor or a member of the elders/deacons, they should be placed in key leadership and/or administrative positions without first determining if they are designed and trained to handle the said position. As long as they serve in the church, they are committed and filled with the Holy Spirit, they should be allowed to take on the responsibilities without ample training or study (doing the course work).
This kind of system will continue to steal precious time and really overburden others. In the end, the people who are in the right position will not only get tremendous burn-out and end up with low self-esteem, but they will start to question if they’re actually on the right bus. This has been my personal cry for years, a long standing burden. I dearly love the people that I serve and continue to respect those I work with in the ministry. However, I have a firm belief that we need to learn how to put square pegs in square holes, and round pegs in round holes.
I have learned a lot from this book. I am glad it is one of the required readings in my MTY masteral class. It provided me with great insights and clearly defined existing problems. It is my prayer and desire to impart to the next generation leaders what I learned through this book. I pray with the time I have at hand, it will be enough, so that the next generation leaders will learn and try not to commit the same mistakes. So help us Lord, please.
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1 Collins, Jim (2001). “Good to Great,” New York, Harper Collins Publishers Inc.
2 Collins, Jim (2001). “Good to Great,” Chapter 3 – First Who… Then What
Filed under: blogger events | Tags: 6th philippine blogging summit, iblog registration 2010
Registration for iBlog: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit is now open. The two day event will start on April 16, 2010 and will be held at Malcolm Theater, in UP College of Law. To sign up, visit the iBlog 6 registration page.
If you want to learn how to promote your products or services and generate income from your blog, attend the first day (April 16). If you are new to blogging and would like to learn how to start from scratch (Blogging 101), attend the second day (April 17). Registration is open to the public, no registration fee required.
The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit
Date: April 16-17, 2010
Time: 9:00AM to 4:30PM
Venue: Malcolm Theater, Malcolm Hall, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Filed under: leadership & youth | Tags: youth ministry strategic planning
An old Chinese proverbs says, “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”
For someone working with young people, it is not enough for me to make plans that will last for a year. I want to be able to pass the knowledge in formulating strategic plans. To equip youth leaders with the right tools so they will fully understand, create, and utilize these skills and help them in the days ahead.
The day after my MTY Masteral class, I immediately gathered our youth leaders in the church after our morning service. It is surprising to learn the amount of needs and questions that surfaced during our meeting. I am glad that I learned how to conduct environmental analysis the previous day because it became very useful and handy during my meeting with our youth leaders.
It is my intention never to short-change our young people that is why I want to immediately share with them everything that I learned in my masteral class. After the meeting, the youth leaders and I have agreed to have two more meetings together. To sit down and go through the learning process of creating a strategic plan. I want to address first and foremost the needs of our youth leaders, before we formulate a strategic plan for the entire youth group. This way, I will be able to guide them and impart with them the methods in strategic planning. At the same time, I want to meet their needs/requirements as youth leaders, so they can better serve and function in the group. I am looking forward to the days ahead, the next two meetings with the youth leaders, and the initial meeting we will be having with the youth group by the end of this month.
Filed under: blogger events, films & the tube | Tags: biogesic ingat, miss you like crazy, miss you like crazy movie synopsis
Biogesic recently invited me to a special screening of the movie “Miss You Like Crazy” with John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo, two of the most hottest and sought after stars in the Philippine movie industry to date.
(photo credit: iris acosta of pinayads.com. posted with permission)
John Lloyd Cruz first got “Close to you” then “Changed your life” and became “A Very Special Love.” In his lovable portrayal of all his on-screen characters, he consistently showed an innate sensitivity by taking each role to heart. As endorser of a popular headache and fever reliever brand Biogesic, it’s clear that he has taken to heart his famous catchphrase “Ingat!”
(image credit: star cinema and abs-cbn)
For 4 years now, this 26 year old actor spoke about the benefits of having Biogesic by his side. Whether on-screen or off, John Lloyd Cruz knows that only the best and safest will do. And so to the millions of Filipinos who look up to him and continues to lineup for his latest film, “Miss You Like Crazy”, John Lloyd expresses his gratitude and concern by bidding everyone a heartfelt “Thank you and Ingat!”
Alan Alvarez (John Lloyd Cruz) is in a four year relationship with Daphne Recto (Maricar Reyes), who happens to be the daughter of Alan’s boss. Mia Samonte (Bea Alonzo) is a front desk officer in Kuala Lumpur, working hard to help her family in crisis.
Alan and Mia finds each other on a ferry boat and strikes up a romane, a prophecy made by an old man (Noel Trinidad) which will eventually change Alan and Mia’s future.
Are they willing to live out their destiny or will they choose to do what’s right? Find out what happens to Alan and Mia, in theaters this February 24, 2010.
