tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85828069049200225962024-03-18T22:38:56.213-06:00The Door ProjectFollow the path of The Door around the world.
The Door CD/DVD is the first live worship album to be recorded in mainland China.Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-16467712888736573412011-01-23T16:20:00.000-07:002011-01-23T16:20:17.498-07:00Hi Mark....<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', serif;">"Hi Mark, Please allow me to add you as a friend. I discovered 'the door' album that your team has been a part of. My wife is Chinese and we're living in Scotland, UK and I just want to say thank you to your team for their faithfulness in serving God ~ your album has brought a greater sense of God's presence into our home. God bless!"</span>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-47478954577535959552010-07-28T10:12:00.000-06:002010-07-28T10:12:44.559-06:00JOY Magazine highlights The Door<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_zNgYkbNdPnmiP6SeFiuhdWmtC1GqJB20WS0_VVbur1LOX8LL6DHk5onsbMzxXFIQYeZBb-6YDsVltDftNtipEMI_AlR_-jZGKQyq9_jCHRWCHJ3B6dG7DuGAzqgMwiFwEmQulSGi0gQ/s1600/Worship+in+Beijing+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_zNgYkbNdPnmiP6SeFiuhdWmtC1GqJB20WS0_VVbur1LOX8LL6DHk5onsbMzxXFIQYeZBb-6YDsVltDftNtipEMI_AlR_-jZGKQyq9_jCHRWCHJ3B6dG7DuGAzqgMwiFwEmQulSGi0gQ/s320/Worship+in+Beijing+Photo.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<br />
<br />
Click on the link below to head to the Worshiplanet website. You can download a great article from JOY Magazine highlighting The Door! <a href="http://www.worshiplanet.com/">www.worshiplanet.com</a><br />
<br />
We are praising God that years later The Door is still reaching hearts.Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-58076263359479364252010-06-16T05:29:00.000-06:002010-06-16T05:29:34.506-06:00Amazing Google SearchIt's amazing where The Door has gone. We did a Google Search for The Door and below is something that came up. This was written after a concert we did at a university in Beijing in 2007. <br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="articalTitle" style="clear: both; color: #484848; font-family: Verdana, 宋体, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><h2 class="titName SG_txta" id="t_4b8debb8010009bb" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #8f1416; display: inline; font-family: 微软雅黑, 黑体; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mark Tedder music band concert in BJFU</h2><span class="img2" style="padding-top: 4px; white-space: nowrap;"></span><span class="time SG_txtc" style="color: #909090; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 13px; white-space: nowrap;">(2007-03-23 23:11:33)</span><div class="turnBoxzz" style="float: right;"><a class="SG_aBtn SG_aBtn_ico SG_turn" href="http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4b8debb8010009bb.html" id="quote_set_sign2" style="background-image: url(http://simg.sinajs.cn/blog7newtpl/image/4/4_23/images/sg_btn.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #484848; cursor: pointer; font-size: 12px !important; margin-right: 6px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><cite style="background-image: url(http://simg.sinajs.cn/blog7newtpl/image/4/4_23/images/sg_btn.png); background-position: 100% -28px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 12px !important; font-style: normal; height: 23px; line-height: 23px; min-width: 1px; overflow-x: visible; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 26px; padding-right: 12px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><img align="absmiddle" class="SG_icon SG_icon111" height="15" src="http://simg.sinajs.cn/blog7style/images/common/sg_trans.gif" style="background-image: url(http://simg.sinajs.cn/blog7style/images/common/sg_icon.png); background-position: 495px -60px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; left: 9px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: 4px;" width="15" />转载</cite></a></div></div><div class="articalTag" id="sina_keyword_ad_area" style="clear: both; color: #484848; font-family: Verdana, 宋体, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; width: 690px; word-break: break-all;"><table style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><tbody>
<tr><td class="blog_tag" style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </td><td class="blog_class" style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; width: 220px;"><span class="SG_txtb" style="color: #909090; font-family: 宋体;">分类:</span><a href="http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/articlelist_1267592120_1_1.html" style="color: #8f1416; font-family: 宋体; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rainの日记</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="articalContent" id="sina_keyword_ad_area2" style="clear: both; color: #484848; font-family: simsun; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 18px; word-break: normal; word-wrap: normal;"><div> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> This evening I attended a concert in my school presented by a band from America called "Mark Tedder".I think I can percieve this band as a family band,cause it is comprised of Mr. Mrs.Tedder and their son(a very handsome boy),plus a boy from Latin America.</div><div> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> When I know they are families,I can hardly believe it.I admire their <wbr></wbr>style of life,just like the classic<the music="" of="" sound="">.In the band,Mr. Tedder is the voicalist,Mrs. Thedder is the one playing keyball,while their son is the drumer player.They have travelled to lots of coutries all over the world.It seems they <wbr></wbr>make music a kind of life rather than a tough job.They play their songs,love them by heart and take pleasure and contentment <wbr></wbr>from <wbr></wbr>them <wbr></wbr>.How wonderful!This is what life really means!!!</the></div><div> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> Tedder said "Look at your palms.Everyone in the world has unique hands.how amazing!You are created to be a unique one.No one can take place of you!"I like his words.</div><div> <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> Life is a magic itself!</div></div>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-76581091960682767072010-05-06T07:28:00.000-06:002010-05-06T07:28:40.505-06:00The Netherlands<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Hello Door Fans!</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Just got this photo from a friend in Colorado who was traveling in The Netherlands recently. This was located in a record store in The Hague! </b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>With Integrity's help in getting this China project distributed throughout all their Global platforms, it is good to see that it's getting out there into people's hands, hearts, and worship experiences. :)</b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBrAKQzxLkPM9C8SMfh0y5FFfIcsUuP-s2k_1TE06faP_Cp5GfhZ4iS3qtxfvYwO2JpeUh0j3HCLGAi76126SsSTDy5xRrm9bZXz1qN-Gr2ia2lZbf1cfzD6YJ8CjGP9PKLHQ1fwB2jc/s1600/30135_1408244840685_1069355642_1220376_6585569_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBrAKQzxLkPM9C8SMfh0y5FFfIcsUuP-s2k_1TE06faP_Cp5GfhZ4iS3qtxfvYwO2JpeUh0j3HCLGAi76126SsSTDy5xRrm9bZXz1qN-Gr2ia2lZbf1cfzD6YJ8CjGP9PKLHQ1fwB2jc/s400/30135_1408244840685_1069355642_1220376_6585569_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Till all the world hears....</b></div>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-84244813960189433552010-02-22T14:09:00.000-07:002010-02-22T14:09:54.629-07:00Did you tune in to The Door on God TV?Here is a humbling note we received after the airing of The Door. Praise God!<br />
<br />
I am from Minnesota, USA and viewed your program on God TV during the Super Bowl.<br />
In fact I got into worshiping the Lord more than watching the Super Bowl. Praise God and many thanks for your wonderful spirit filled service! I even had tears streaming down my face because I was so moved!Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-76151509731652001882010-02-08T10:28:00.005-07:002010-02-08T12:41:30.250-07:00Opening The Door into a new territoryHey guys, check out this article that Christian Marketplace put in their February 2010 issue!<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435958437502218962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0KbIEuKKwoC9jFbHwauu5XavgARJaXgwSTGnm7rewgCy-8PKsbvYJa91HINL5gD9ePNFk5bdL9CbIemQQG9o84Fe2iJ1TDCdC0XysghtjMj5pBTJBLjFpRQK5PUWBiQMjgRYAR0IVXM/s200/ppt+6.jpg" /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Opening The Door into a new territory</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Clem Jackson met with Mark and Carrie Tedder to talk about a groundbreaking worship project in China and about living and ministering in what for many is a closed land.</span><br /><br />In 2008 Mark Tedder and his Worshiplanet band, together with a group of Chinese musicians performed a worship concert in a theatre which is home to the biggest International Church in<br />Beijing in China. Whilst that in itself was unusual the most amazing part of the project was that the whole event was recorded and filmed – a first for a worship concert in China. The result was The Door, a CD and DVD package issued earlier in 2009 in the UK by Integrity Music Europe.<br />At the time Mark and some of his family were living in Beijing but have now returned to Colorado and I met up with him and his wife Carrie on a visit to England at the end of last year to talk about the project and life in China. I began by asking them about the ministry of Worshiplanet.<br /><strong>Mark</strong>: Worshiplanet is an international equipping ministry. We really have a heart for working with worship teams and local churches all around the world and so, where we are invited, we will take a small band with us and will go and work with, train, equip, local worship ministries and local expressions of worship in various nations.<br /><strong>CJ</strong>: You recently spent two years in China but how did that all come about?<br /><strong>Carrie</strong>: About five years ago we were invited by the Chinese government to do a series of benefit concerts for the Disabled Federation of China. The deal was they would raise money at the concerts by selling tickets (they paid our expenses) if we could sing what we liked. They said OK; we couldn’t speak but we could sing what we liked. We did a series of 90 minute concerts all over mainland China for two weeks and it was from that series of concerts that we really got a big heart for China. When we found out that the International Church in Beijing, 4,000 people and fourteen congregations, were without a worship pastor we very quickly volunteered. We spent six months raising funds for a two-year stay in China so we didn’t cost the church anything, found a little apartment and lived there.<br /><strong>CJ</strong>: To shift the family and shift the home all the way from Colorado to China, how difficult<br />was that for you Carrie?<br /><strong>Carrie</strong>: Easy! I travel easier than he does. (“she does” - Mark). It wasn’t too bad mainly because our kids are older. Now we would have done it, if our kids had been younger, in fact we have made moves like that before. Whilst there are some remote places, China is easier than we think, particularly the bigger cities like Shanghai and Beijing.<br /><strong>CJ</strong>: While you were in China The Door project came about; why The Door?<br /><strong>Mark</strong>: We called it The Door because we really sensed from the very first time we went to China that the door was open; God clearly has been opening a door in China for evangelisation, for proclamation. The other reason we called it The Door was because doors are significant in China. The door is probably one of the most significant parts of the home. Even if you live in a shanty the door, the threshold, is a very significant part of that house. If you are invited into a person’s house in China it’s a high honour; they have opened their door and are saying ‘please come and spend time with us, come and eat with us’. Wherever you go you see above each threshold the symbol of the door that’s on the cover of the project.<br /><strong>CJ</strong>: You talk about a door being opened but in the West we hear all sorts of conflicting stories about how free Christianity is, about the persecution of pastors. What’s your experience having spent two years there?<br /><strong>Carrie</strong>: Someone told us when we first arrived in China that ‘any statement you make about China is true – somewhere in China’. And we know there is persecution going on, there are horrible things happening, they continue to happen, it will take forever to change this. At the same time there are amazing things happening; like 18 months ago they passed a ruling which said it was no longer illegal to be a card carrying Communist Party member and to be a Christ follower in Parliament. We know there are believers who are very high up in the government.<br />So you’ve got this underlying history of bad things happening but you have this fresh move<br />of God’s Spirit. There are believers throughout society in China from the peasant population all<br />the way up to government.<br /><strong>Mark</strong>: We even got the opportunity to be interviewed about what we were doing in China<br />on Beijing Radio (17 million listeners) and although they had this file on us, they knew all about us, the interviewer just says “You’re with Worshiplanet – what is Worshiplanet?” and then she says to me “Just say what you want to say, I don’t really care, it’s OK.”<br /><strong>CJ</strong>: Have you been back to China in 2009?<br /><strong>Mark</strong>: We were there in February; we try to go there once a year now. We are planning another tour there again with the government - the same organisation wants us to come back again - in<br />2010 if we can get the money together.<br /><strong>CJ</strong>: What were the challenges in writing songs for the project that were translatable into the Chinese context?<br /><strong>Mark</strong>: I tend to write songs based on what is happening in my life, in my congregation’s life, in<br />the life of the church, kind of more around me. So the expression and the songs that came from The Door project were mostly written in Beijing. What we did is we fused these two worlds together. We brought a Western song and combined it with Chinese ethnic instruments. In terms of fusing Chinese instruments and bringing Chinese musicians onto the project, that was a challenge. People in China don’t view a Guzheng (a long wooden stringed instrument that looks like a harp laying on its side), or a Yangqin (a hammer dulcimer type of instrument), as instruments for worship. It was a big risk to use them but we had heard young Chinese musicians playing these instruments in their homes; it was just a beautiful expression of worship.<br /><strong>Carrie</strong>: We let the Chinese musicians we used create around what Mark had written, so there<br />was a lot of creativity on their part.<br /><strong>CJ</strong>: And on the CDRom you have the words in Chinese script alongside the English translation<br />of the words too.<br /><strong>Mark</strong>: To be honest with you The Door was never meant to be released outside of China; it<br />was meant to be for the Chinese Church. There is nothing at all like this in China, this is a first. When we had it pressed in China we said, 'Look, take this record and copy it as many times as you want to and give it out to as many villages and towns and cities as you can. Get it out there.<br /><strong>Carrie</strong>: And we’re praying that this will be a prototype because if this eventually gets permission it means that some other things will get permission too and that’s actually much<br />more important.<br /><br />by Tony Cummings<br />tony.cummings@crossrhythms.co.uk<br /><br />For more info on Christian Marketplace visit <a href="http://christianmarketplace.org.uk/">http://christianmarketplace.org.uk/</a>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-56215961433689663562010-02-05T12:46:00.008-07:002010-02-05T12:53:24.393-07:00Stop The Presses!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpxnF3rKyp9GkW3RUB54dhxvrbfA4qxTIk5maKzGT__dQg1jO_zd2NsEW3Syd9SKPL7-gQOcuCBH_KA34ZjOZUk5heaokqbBzzBFJc5aARladN7R7AAOPQ203dLE140ELgK7duskjfQw/s1600-h/god_logo.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 87px; height: 68px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpxnF3rKyp9GkW3RUB54dhxvrbfA4qxTIk5maKzGT__dQg1jO_zd2NsEW3Syd9SKPL7-gQOcuCBH_KA34ZjOZUk5heaokqbBzzBFJc5aARladN7R7AAOPQ203dLE140ELgK7duskjfQw/s200/god_logo.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434849331411121586" /></a><br />Don't forget to tune into God TV this weekend, February 7 & 8 to watch the airing of The Door project! Remember you can go to www.god.tv/thedoor or check your Dish Network listing for channel #365 to see when it will be airing in your area. <div><br /></div><div>Below is a media release that God TV put out yesterday about The Door...</div><div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"; font-family:";color:black;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">GOD TV airs ground-breaking event from <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></b></div><div> <p class="eighth" style="margin-right:.95pt;mso-outline-level:1;vertical-align: top"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";color:black;">‘The Door’ offers vibrant cross-cultural worship from <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city> to viewers worldwide<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="eighth" style="margin-right:.95pt;line-height:150%;mso-outline-level: 1;vertical-align:top"><b><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-language:EN-USfont-family:TrajanPro-Regular;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As part of GOD TV’s commitment to broadcast what is happening in the Body of Christ across the globe, the international network is to air one of the first LIVE worship events ever recorded in Mainland </span><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="eighth" style="margin-right:.95pt;line-height:150%;mso-outline-level: 1;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">Combining Western songs with Chinese instrumental sounds and with musicians from Beijing and the USA, ‘The Door’ sets a new trend in today’s worship and</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-language:EN-USfont-family:TrajanPro-Regular;font-size:11.0pt;"> </span><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-language:EN-USfont-family:TrajanPro-Regular;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">can be seen on GOD EUROPE this Sunday, 7</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">th</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> February at 18.00 and 23.30 as well as the GOD Channel UK at 19.30 (GMT).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="eighth" style="margin-right:.95pt;line-height:150%;mso-outline-level: 1;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">Produced during <st1:country-region st="on">China</st1:country-region>’s Olympic Games in 2008, the event was filmed during a service at <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city>’s 4,000-member International Christian Fellowship and is ground-breaking because it took place with Government authorisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="eighth" style="margin-right:.95pt;line-height:150%;mso-outline-level: 1;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">The project was spearheaded by US ‘musicianary’ Mark Tedder, who served as a worship leader at the fellowship for two years. He and his wife now lead the international worship equipping ministry, Worshiplanet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="eighth" style="margin-right:.95pt;line-height:150%;mso-outline-level: 1;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">“The heart of the Door project was that God would use it to encourage local churches throughout <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>,” said Mark Tedder. “There have been other major worship initiatives in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but this was the first officially sanctioned live project. It was a miracle to pull it off and there are many reports of people getting saved through it.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-line-height:150%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">The Door is a breakthrough for the Church in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> as it symbolises an open door on two levels. Firstly, the miracle of obtaining permission to film it is a door into the entire region for the Gospel. It is also an opening into different cultural experiences for those who haven’t had the opportunity to enjoy the unique sounds of ethnic Chinese instruments and musical styles.</span> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-line-height:150%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">This includes 2,000-year-old traditional Chinese instruments such as the yangqin, guzheng and the hulusi.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-line-height:150%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">“GOD TV has a vision to serve the Chinese people and ‘The Door’ is an event not to be missed!” said GOD TV co-founder and head of television, <st1:personname st="on">Wendy Alec</st1:personname>, “Since we launched into Greater China in 2008, GOD TV has received many reports of changed lives in Hong Kong, <st1:place st="on">Macau</st1:place> and the Mainland. Now it is our privilege to share some of what GOD has been doing in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city> with the rest of the world.”</span><span style="line-height: 150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi- mso-bidi-language:EN-USfont-family:TrajanPro-Regular;font-size:11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="eighth" style="margin-right:.95pt;line-height:150%;mso-outline-level: 1;vertical-align:top"><st1:personname st="on"><span style=" line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi- mso-bidi-language:EN-USfont-family:TrajanPro-Regular;font-size:11.0pt;">Wendy Alec</span></st1:personname><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-language:EN-USfont-family:TrajanPro-Regular;font-size:11.0pt;"> is also the author of the book, “Journal of the Unknown Prophet’ (www.unknownprophet.com) which speaks of coming revival in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="eighth" style="margin-right:.95pt;line-height:150%;mso-outline-level: 1;vertical-align:top"><span style="line-height:150%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi- mso-bidi-language:EN-USfont-family:TrajanPro-Regular;font-size:11.0pt;">“Prepare for a season of grace that will come upon you in the next years – for where you have been My suffering Church, prepare to be My mass evangelists,” she wrote in a prophetic word entitled ‘<st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> – The Endtime Dynasty of the Son.’<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“For where you have whispered in secret, prepare to shout My Gospel from the rooftops to all of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> and beyond. For I shall open a voice of utterance that shall resound in <st1:city st="on">Shanghai</st1:city>, that shall resound in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:city>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">GOD TV<span style="color:black;"> can be viewed on SKY 580/1 and Virgin 279 as well as</span> online. GOD TV’s website has just been upgraded with a more advanced web-streaming service and web viewers can watch <span style="color:black;">at www.god.tv/live</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;color:black;"> or via video on demand at www.god.tv/video.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">For more information about The Door visit: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:12.0pt;">www.worshiplanet.com </span></div>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-9646511930906536702010-01-27T10:55:00.006-07:002010-01-30T10:39:48.504-07:00Global broadcast of "The Door"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRRvrVnZBB4SaZ7MMd-v9MPHfvEkMmI3tm78TdoExEXfZ0vJmxtyhWblAl5wTYPUIx_3gxqwAIE03jqF4M-8W2UMwHn1VQTBNAMbisCwrOVpsa9Iq58lPJpRDDKJJ5r11wOjAYF22U-E/s1600-h/20436_276972344105_525894105_3248205_5776507_s.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 101px; height: 83px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRRvrVnZBB4SaZ7MMd-v9MPHfvEkMmI3tm78TdoExEXfZ0vJmxtyhWblAl5wTYPUIx_3gxqwAIE03jqF4M-8W2UMwHn1VQTBNAMbisCwrOVpsa9Iq58lPJpRDDKJJ5r11wOjAYF22U-E/s200/20436_276972344105_525894105_3248205_5776507_s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431484250952622674" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">God TV brodcasts "The Door"!<br /><br /><br /><br />Hey everybody!</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">We are excited to let you in on the latest news from around the world. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >God TV</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> are broadcasting "The Door" on all of their Global platforms on February 7th and 8th.<br /><br />Please go to the following web link and find out the broadcast times in your area. The programme will be aired on all feeds, broadcasting in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Greater China, UK and the USA on February 7th & 8th - following is a promo of the show, courtesy of God TV.</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:11pt;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><u><br /><a href="http://www.god.tv/thedoor">http://www.god.tv/thedoor</a></u></span> <!--EndFragment--><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxYI6-6i3ZE0gDNOOU8cL3etUkf4MsJGw3pa8okUwV-Qj8M7Sq-tmpMR-2JL-INpC8wTW02Ctoznc0MevRTSw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-29753579427926448922009-12-04T16:21:00.002-07:002009-12-04T16:28:25.204-07:00<span class="title"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Door is featured this month in Charisma Magazine. Below is the article in full. Praise God, He is still using The Door to get the message out there!</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="title"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="title">Indigenous Music Of The Chinese Church </span><br /></div> <span class="writer"></span> <br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A live worship recording is highlighting the indigenous sounds of the Chinese church––and drawing people to Christ</span><br /><p style="font-style: italic;" class="small"><br />A live worship project that joins musicians from the U. S., Europe and China is highlighting the indigenous sounds of the Chinese church––and drawing people to Christ.<br /><br />Produced during China’s Olympic Games, The Door was recorded during a Sunday service at Beijing’s 4,000-member International Christian Fellowship––where worshipers’ identities are checked by government agents before they can enter the hall.<br /><br />“To get into the church, you have to show a foreign ID of some sort,” said Arkansas-born musician Mark Tedder, 47, who served as full-time worship leader at the fellowship for two years and spearheaded the project.<br /><br />“There is a police presence at the front door.” Remarkably, authorities gave their offi cial permission, but Tedder and his team still made sure the hard drive containing the recording left China quickly. The main condition was that the team should not broadcast the recording before the Olympics.<br /><br />“It was a miracle to pull it off , simply because it’s never been done before,” said Tedder, now based in Colorado.<br /><br />Captured on both CD and DVD, the live worship recording brings standard Western worship sounds alongside 2,000- year-old traditional Chinese instruments such as the dulcimerlike yangqin, the harpstyle guzheng and the drone pipe hulusi.<br /><br />“We wanted [the recording] to give the vibe that local worship teams could actually incorporate and redeem some of these ancient instruments,” Tedder said.<br /><br />Tedder did not intend to make a commercial recording and initially distributed the album freely. But the project caught the attention of Integrity Music Europe and was picked up for distribution. In the U.S., the CD is available at worshiplanet.com. “I had no idea it would go outside of mainland China,” Tedder admitted.<br /><br />“The heart of this project was that God would use it to encourage local churches throughout China.” There have been other major worship initiatives in China––notably the famous Canaan Hymns by Xiao Min, who wrote more than 1,000 indigenous praise songs.<br /><br />In addition, Hong Kong-based Vine Band released From Ashes to Beauty in both English and Mandarin.<br /><br />But The Door is the fi rst offi cially sanctioned live project to come out of China.<br /><br />Reports claim that lives are being changed through it. “We’re hearing stories from China that villages are sitting down in one person’s home who has a TV and watching The Door project,” Tedder said. “People are getting saved through it.” —CLIVE PRICE </p>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-71407152729804486082009-11-04T10:13:00.003-07:002009-11-04T12:03:16.148-07:00A Small Story of God's Marvel<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMuJgt1Qu6wsOgg9Ua9NK6_S2tUYLMalUSP7RNnCuTDcgZdHODzP2_kV3mgkMOJGOMHinV8GsiMEzut-vMwfiDvt1FZ_1RZfcCEM-zieqUto-34v6N6tntaXWqL9H-JpLU7AD7rfB4UlY/s1600-h/thumbnail.aspx.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMuJgt1Qu6wsOgg9Ua9NK6_S2tUYLMalUSP7RNnCuTDcgZdHODzP2_kV3mgkMOJGOMHinV8GsiMEzut-vMwfiDvt1FZ_1RZfcCEM-zieqUto-34v6N6tntaXWqL9H-JpLU7AD7rfB4UlY/s200/thumbnail.aspx.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400325871455046338" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We received this from a friend in the UK:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A small story of God's marvel:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I was asked very recently by a local church to help them out by leading worship singing at their evening service. The curate told me the Bible verses he would base his talk on and the basic layout of the worship programme. He asked that we both pray for guidance on suitable songs. He asked me to pray particularly about the song between his talk and the prayers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We both did this and when we met to discuss the songs, we had both written down the same song for between the prayers! Your song: Be Still. Wow!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Many people were kind enough to speak to me afterwards and I was amazed by how many said that the "Be Still" song had really taken them into a mood of prayer.</span>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-17225975262473246902009-10-29T08:37:00.008-06:002009-10-29T09:49:00.508-06:00Doors are opening!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBGVCl-q7RttAvYCeOPUzZVbWww4DVju-S8qGsC7Q7a-Rl45wPOiGa757q3VCDf5KQliC8tTnEa5tfZOwZ8Rf81LavmLe8aKHBmldUc9OUioBWqvNomoVN6hMULEN9TkdfEmgopQAdHA/s1600-h/Man+Muslim+standing+in+door+good.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBGVCl-q7RttAvYCeOPUzZVbWww4DVju-S8qGsC7Q7a-Rl45wPOiGa757q3VCDf5KQliC8tTnEa5tfZOwZ8Rf81LavmLe8aKHBmldUc9OUioBWqvNomoVN6hMULEN9TkdfEmgopQAdHA/s320/Man+Muslim+standing+in+door+good.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398048506688979330" border="0" /></a>
<br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CWORSHI%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CWORSHI%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CWORSHI%7E1%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> <w:dontvertaligncellwithsp/> <w:dontbreakconstrainedforcedtables/> <w:dontvertalignintxbx/> <w:word11kerningpairs/> <w:cachedcolbalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> <m:mathpr> <m:mathfont val="Cambria Math"> <m:brkbin val="before"> <m:brkbinsub val="--"> <m:smallfrac val="off"> <m:dispdef/> <m:lmargin val="0"> <m:rmargin val="0"> <m:defjc val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent val="1440"> <m:intlim val="subSup"> <m:narylim val="undOvr"> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" defunhidewhenused="true" defsemihidden="true" defqformat="false" defpriority="99" latentstylecount="267"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="0" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Normal"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="heading 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 7"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 8"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="9" qformat="true" name="heading 9"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 7"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 8"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" name="toc 9"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="35" qformat="true" name="caption"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="10" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Title"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="1" name="Default Paragraph Font"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="11" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Subtitle"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="22" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Strong"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="20" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Emphasis"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="59" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Table Grid"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Placeholder Text"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="1" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="No Spacing"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Revision"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="34" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="List Paragraph"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="29" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Quote"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="30" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Intense Quote"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="60" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Shading Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="61" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light List Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="62" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Light Grid Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="63" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="64" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="65" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="66" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="67" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="68" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="69" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="70" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Dark List Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="71" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="72" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful List Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="73" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="19" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Subtle Emphasis"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="21" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Intense Emphasis"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="31" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Subtle Reference"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="32" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Intense Reference"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="33" semihidden="false" unhidewhenused="false" qformat="true" name="Book Title"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="37" name="Bibliography"> <w:lsdexception locked="false" priority="39" qformat="true" name="TOC Heading"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} @font-face {font-family:Consolas; panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:modern; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750091 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Plain Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} span.PlainTextChar {mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Plain Text"; mso-ansi-font-size:10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas; mso-ascii-font-family:Consolas; mso-hansi-font-family:Consolas;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--><span><span><span style="font-family:arial;">The Door is opening many doors throughout the world! We just received this email from a friend working with pastors who are planting churches in Muslim countries</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;">.
<br />
<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Hi from the Philippines!
<br />I'm here for a training seminar for two weeks geared to language coaches who train missionaries. I played one of your songs during a devotional (Redeeming Light of God) and a number of the Filipino missionaries who serve among Muslims asked if they could copy it. I wanted to ask your permission before I allowed them to do this.
<br />
<br /></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">And from Niger, Africa</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >We are in charge of Sunday night's church service here. I'm in charge of leading worship. Thought you might like to know that actually YOU are leading us in two songs. :) We are the People of God and How Great is Our God - off <span style="font-family:arial;">your Waiting for the Son cd</span>. So, how about that?!?"</span>
<br />
<br />Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-713919294642452172009-10-14T16:52:00.002-06:002009-10-14T16:58:18.288-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0prwZ6rk_ei3hA2UevPiq4XAzXHZF4XKJxylY6A2cy_6_5SxN6cLAMbdGKkfJfaW2Xyk-RP78EtP_aiSxEbE4uzstYGYOIasnLB3VOhT8qnjNx8Olvw2dfqZBxRu2sOXVTSKmN_NkDw/s1600-h/Mark_Tedder_Large_Poster.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0prwZ6rk_ei3hA2UevPiq4XAzXHZF4XKJxylY6A2cy_6_5SxN6cLAMbdGKkfJfaW2Xyk-RP78EtP_aiSxEbE4uzstYGYOIasnLB3VOhT8qnjNx8Olvw2dfqZBxRu2sOXVTSKmN_NkDw/s200/Mark_Tedder_Large_Poster.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392593004589688530" border="0" /></a>Hey all of you in the Manchester/Liverpool area come out to see us at Sutton Village Church in St. Helens on November 14 & 15.<br /><img src="file:///Users/marktedder/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///Users/marktedder/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-1.png" alt="" />Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-17245317846493735182009-09-24T11:36:00.002-06:002009-09-24T11:52:12.500-06:00"Tools for Worship"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOux-uLjRemVz-E1YlhrDvwI7GYHt-5-o5LheOAypVoFHGv9ubaqsYaKOOEs21ilb0qMyyJy-ru0p6wEGjn5ynoiOFpNmnqwhQRll-pAyuZ0dk4P0nxVVhhyC8taDv8pA_J0g1eavfyM/s1600-h/waterbottle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOux-uLjRemVz-E1YlhrDvwI7GYHt-5-o5LheOAypVoFHGv9ubaqsYaKOOEs21ilb0qMyyJy-ru0p6wEGjn5ynoiOFpNmnqwhQRll-pAyuZ0dk4P0nxVVhhyC8taDv8pA_J0g1eavfyM/s200/waterbottle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385092984872228498" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Greetings from snowy Colorado!<br /><br />We just returned from a tour of Thailand and Singapore. To be honest to try to tell the story would take several days of talking, lots of coffee and a room full of pictures!<br /><br />I must tell you of a story however, of one of the guys Carrie met while we were in Thailand. This person asked that their name and location not be identified for security reasons. All I can say is that they are part of a <span style="font-style: italic;">'pre-church planting'</span> team in the middle east.<br /><br />"Jim" asked the question in one of our worship workshops about how (as a worshiper) we can use what little we have to lead others in worship. Carrie began to explain how often in China where we served for two years, it was normal for worship services to be lead by human voice only! This prompted other questions - "but how can you lead them without instruments?" Jim asked; Carrie told them how many of the Christians in China often will create rhythm by taking a water bottle, filling it with rice and using it as a percussion (shaker) instrument.<br /><br />The workshop ended. Later the next week, the Worshiplanet Band went into leading other events and the church planters returned to their host countries..... a few days ago Carrie received an email from "Jim" in the middle east. Following is the transcript from his email;<br /><br />"Carrie - I hope this finds you well and the rest of your time in Chiang Mai was<br />blessed. I am sure that you all were a blessing to the churches there.<br />I want to thank you again for taking time out of your schedule to meet<br />with me and encourage and help me brainstorm ideas of how to bring a<br />more lively worship to my field and team. My teammates and I actually<br />got creative and used some empty water bottles and rice and made some<br />shakers that we incorporated into our worship the other day. It was<br />actually fun. At first we felt like little kids again, but I think<br />that really helped us just put everything aside and really get to the<br />heart of worship. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Our neighbor's kids came over yesterday and wanted </span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">to know what they were so I got to sing worship songs over them while </span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">they danced and shook the shakers all over the room.</span> I also contacted<br />my worship pastor back home and he sent me some stuff to help me get<br />going on the guitar again. I think this month, as it is Ramadan, will<br />be a good time to try and carve out some hours on the guitar as not<br />much else is happening here as everyone is fasting. Well I hope that<br />you guys found some time to enjoy Thailand and that you were in<br />someway blessed by being there as much as we were by having you there.<br />Thank you once again for all that you do.<br /><br />In Him,<br />"Jim"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."</span>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-75581143870959634062009-08-29T08:29:00.006-06:002009-08-29T10:19:48.247-06:00Thailand & Singapore<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK4V4eR0VB0dnKLAWkAfCd_qQJm883RWIEsBeUfHYdpsoMpZvHsZqNExBuGmI4ywhh6he1HQEk8R0d1wphWHk3HLkvyJHGhgyQSiCZcc5eFlgyHoIuqJi4U7MoeDwV6Vggr7XKeXPutcU/s1600-h/CMworship.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK4V4eR0VB0dnKLAWkAfCd_qQJm883RWIEsBeUfHYdpsoMpZvHsZqNExBuGmI4ywhh6he1HQEk8R0d1wphWHk3HLkvyJHGhgyQSiCZcc5eFlgyHoIuqJi4U7MoeDwV6Vggr7XKeXPutcU/s400/CMworship.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375400235119086498" border="0" /></a><br />Hey everybody!<br /><br />We just returned from a three week tour of Thailand and Singapore. The first week we led 15 worship sets, 2 workshops and found time somewhere in the middle of the week to head into the jungle for a half day of "zip-line" adventure - see (www.jungle-flight.com) Our mission the first week in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Thailand</span> was to equip about 800 pastors and their wives who faithfully serve Christ in the most sensitive nations in the world. A gathering of church planters and missionaries who are strategically sharing the viral message of Jesus in countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Tajikistan, U.A.E., Indonesia, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Turkmenistan</span>, etc...you get the picture. I guess to sum it all up, (according to one of the pastors who attended the conference) he told me; <span style="font-style: italic;">"Mark, we all came hungry and thirsty...to meet with God; we are leaving refreshed and full of His Spirit, excited to continue the work He's called us to..."</span><br /><br />What an incredible privilege it has been to lead those modern-day apostles into worship every morning and evening.<br /><br />We ended that first week with a Saturday 'night of worship' with all of the local international churches in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Chiang</span> Mai. There was a real sense of God's presence with us as we saw pastors refreshed, the body of Christ unified in worship and the name of Jesus be lifted up! We spent 3 more days with the local churches in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Chiang</span> Mai, leading workshops and spending time with a couple of the pastors and their families.<br /><br />We then left for Singapore, via Bangkok, where Integrity Media and Scripture Union set up a series of workshops, training, leading worship, meeting some of the worship 'gatekeepers' in Singapore and basically hearing about what God is doing in that nation. We can truly attest of God's faithfulness and blessing on Singapore. One of the things we felt very strongly to speak into was to encourage the songwriters of Singapore to be refreshed, renewed and released to write new songs of praise for and over their nation.<br /><br />We had an additional opportunity of leading worship (some in Mandarin!) at an event where several <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Singaporean Chinese churches</span> came together for an evening of worship and encouragement. Again, we were blessed to see how God is strategically using the Chinese church in Singapore to "sing" back into China and over their own land the songs of redemption and blessing.<br /><br />We are grateful that we are allowed this opportunity to travel the planet, meet with people just like us who are serving local churches week in and week out. We bless the nations of Thailand and Singapore - we sing life, health, peace and God's Spirit over the pastors, worship leaders and teams who, each week, create space for God's people to gather together to lift up the name of Christ!<br /><br />Please pray for Thailand and Singapore!<br />Till next time....<br />mark<br /><br />PS - if you want more information about what we do around the world - go to <span style="font-weight: bold;">www.worshiplanet.com</span>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-28306271548790019002009-07-16T08:41:00.004-06:002009-07-16T08:55:31.597-06:00God TV<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqiokfu_h2vUD6YNuWaMUyp9CkBc3KLkcvrx3S-UlE07Nk5z2jSDr65Nd9mI3v1vE3mR-mLqoj-LOAzWt4QAZC7nfOYKrxLIH8Or0MXyE1Vp2lp85MmH_sv-Rkpst6YNEhRYQylYdK8c/s1600-h/TheDoorCrowd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqiokfu_h2vUD6YNuWaMUyp9CkBc3KLkcvrx3S-UlE07Nk5z2jSDr65Nd9mI3v1vE3mR-mLqoj-LOAzWt4QAZC7nfOYKrxLIH8Or0MXyE1Vp2lp85MmH_sv-Rkpst6YNEhRYQylYdK8c/s400/TheDoorCrowd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359071557870288066" border="0" /></a><br />To all our Asia friends!<br /><br />The Door is being broadcast this weekend all over China!<br /><br />You can access The Door "live" worship concert on the Asia platform <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dream Network </span>package out of the Philippines this weekend! Broadcast times are as follows (Beijing local Time)<br /><br />Saturday July 18th at 18:00 (Beijing local time)<br />Sunday July 19th at 14:00 (Beijing local time)<br /><br />Please tell everyone in that region of the world to catch The Door live in China!<br /><br />Blessings<br />markWorshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-22815665589783716912009-06-15T16:38:00.004-06:002009-06-15T16:58:44.074-06:00from the inside...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0qWQHnJ8wem6LYKiKKR1y7k9pxjz0uI9cJlGgBs7ODQ89LhNGsoAMr5z71wPt1ovofavQ8h_HHxZgsOaftEUemwoWnFxp1S6mm7ryfia_3hDEpHwesFMHVuoBQvKR_TIAtJL2RxeZKh8/s1600-h/Child.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0qWQHnJ8wem6LYKiKKR1y7k9pxjz0uI9cJlGgBs7ODQ89LhNGsoAMr5z71wPt1ovofavQ8h_HHxZgsOaftEUemwoWnFxp1S6mm7ryfia_3hDEpHwesFMHVuoBQvKR_TIAtJL2RxeZKh8/s400/Child.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347692266148808962" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">from the inside....</span></span><br /><br />We just got a story from inside china and had to share it with you. Most of you know that we are still waiting for The Door to open 'legally' in the Peoples Republic of China. Whilst we're working diligently on that, there have been a few "Door" stories coming back at us. This one happened a few weeks ago in an orphanage in a remote village in the Shaanxi Province. I'll just let you in on the story as it was told to me....<br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">we had a Chinese house church pastor with us who helped with explaining the song "Be Still" to the kids. And there were a few parts of the song that we had difficulty deciphering...so we replayed Be Still to him over and over on my iPod shuffle. Haha...then finally when we had the lyrics complete, Tiffany and I played it on guitar and taught the kids the song. They loved it!!!!!!<br /><br /></span>We're constantly <span style="font-style: italic;">amazed and grateful</span> at how God is using The Door to open the hearts of people in China - even the little children.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Psalm 8:2 - "From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-66478432041138770322009-05-28T14:58:00.003-06:002009-05-28T15:11:19.512-06:00The Door Is Opening in Europe!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYfJSSixFUrTILVHazvtsA8VySrKJRH8vRcaLIec-WCfqbnG5twHGFOt8WjnQZHwfHUhj9WfI51oxRnoMqAiy4HnyMV2e3SfbTY-sRX-K4E4WS0RGKxEb_-aNhzlw-yb0KeES8bd2F5E/s1600-h/thedoorCard_eblast.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYfJSSixFUrTILVHazvtsA8VySrKJRH8vRcaLIec-WCfqbnG5twHGFOt8WjnQZHwfHUhj9WfI51oxRnoMqAiy4HnyMV2e3SfbTY-sRX-K4E4WS0RGKxEb_-aNhzlw-yb0KeES8bd2F5E/s400/thedoorCard_eblast.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340985240044771682" border="0" /></a><br />Hey everybody!<br /><br />Check out this e-card blast that the guys at Integrity Europe have put together. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />http://www.musicwithintegrity.com/ecards/thedoor/index.html</span><br /><br />It's been a pleasure to partner with Integrity in getting The Door out there throughout Europe. You will start to see The Door project available in your local bookshops (particularly in the UK) and for sure on the e-card link.<br /><br />We have had great response thus far and are hearing stories about how the project is being used to draw attention to Creator God and how he is shaping and restoring the peoples of China using the medium of worship.<br /><br />Thanks for hitting the blog and if you haven't picked up a copy of The Door yet, get out there and get a couple - one for yourself and one to give away! :)<br /><br />take care<br />MarkWorshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-49134697372983773392009-04-28T13:58:00.001-06:002009-04-28T14:27:23.086-06:00Fresh Worship in Kenya<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOAmHTENWXBwH07UyyS_LjX6l7oCo9VLym7omz_yyXnuZzh9ewHXomqMDdsxrkx1f-l6poPakeWHHsFHQ_nfaB-XgaRvxghma1c-yJX-Vj408Y4_vRNnDbDPXVxZaPPQRSoS3c998RFw/s1600-h/291361721_d3c59a5195_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOAmHTENWXBwH07UyyS_LjX6l7oCo9VLym7omz_yyXnuZzh9ewHXomqMDdsxrkx1f-l6poPakeWHHsFHQ_nfaB-XgaRvxghma1c-yJX-Vj408Y4_vRNnDbDPXVxZaPPQRSoS3c998RFw/s400/291361721_d3c59a5195_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329834279546721298" /></a><br />On Sunday morning, Mark was tuning his guitar on-stage at Woodmen Valley Chapel, when a man approached him and told him a quick story. <br />Just a week earlier, this man was in Kenya worshipping along fellow African believers. After the service, he approached the pastor and they began chatting about the worship songs in the church. They discussed the need for fresh, new worship in their church. The pastor agreed and asked for some examples of new music. At that point, the American pulled out his iPod and picked the song "More Of You". He put the earphones in, and as the song progressed, the pastor had tears streaming down his face. He said he was ministered to by the song and encouraged to bring new songs to the congregation.<br />Who knew that this recording in Beijing, China would minister to a man in Kenya, Africa just a year later? We are thankful that God uses us as tools in His Kingdom and we are praying that the ministry of this project would continue to spread to the far corners of the Earth.Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-65197008607576082352009-04-28T13:20:00.000-06:002009-04-28T13:40:10.494-06:00The Door in Japan!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2FvbZ5vtZnO5wA9qsDl0eJLcGkTA1XaMLhuxlC3nNjAW-2R5yP8XJZqWaffpn9igtLyZLSbympW7nHux9hYj64M3foOUJ_yPE33_1P3lBavtNIDIMnQIERQJNngzw-r_thUwDU-ntrY/s1600-h/535936031_ddddf6d886.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2FvbZ5vtZnO5wA9qsDl0eJLcGkTA1XaMLhuxlC3nNjAW-2R5yP8XJZqWaffpn9igtLyZLSbympW7nHux9hYj64M3foOUJ_yPE33_1P3lBavtNIDIMnQIERQJNngzw-r_thUwDU-ntrY/s400/535936031_ddddf6d886.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329827679947679090" /></a><br /> At Worshiplanet, our aim is not to have our name in bright lights. More exciting to us, is to know that worship music is going to all corners of the Earth. We were so excited to find <a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/Door-Mark-Tedder/dp/B001LX4JRA">The Door on Japanese version of Amazon</a>. Now if we could only know what it says...Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-79752908890003242562009-04-20T18:30:00.000-06:002009-04-20T18:59:41.845-06:00Spring Harvest. Abbreviated.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0I3MMkNlbLcCIqaw9Ex49djapm0wewjw_vPxNocH4X8raGGXLeB8gqKovuwYIHjSQig8kPCE7nHgimUEMHTuQwEBkMypk9hXCjmHf_cNU6ZQ4Yt1hZXMliUg14lKAghyphenhyphenH82QASnwrH0/s1600-h/DSC03021.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0I3MMkNlbLcCIqaw9Ex49djapm0wewjw_vPxNocH4X8raGGXLeB8gqKovuwYIHjSQig8kPCE7nHgimUEMHTuQwEBkMypk9hXCjmHf_cNU6ZQ4Yt1hZXMliUg14lKAghyphenhyphenH82QASnwrH0/s400/DSC03021.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326937677794673554" /></a><br /><br />After a couple weeks in the UK, everyone has returned home and is getting some rest. Who knew that rocking out in worship could be so exhausting?<br /><br />Let's rewind a bit. On April 1st, the team came together from all around the globe. Mark, Carrie, Jessica and Alli flew from Denver, Colorado. Daniel caught a flight from Beijing, and Manu took a short flight from Germany. Joe drove up from Brighton and Richard took the train from Brunel. We all met at the Butt's home in London for some team time and rehearsals. After some fish and chips, we dove right into learning new songs and getting all the equipment together for our 10 days at Spring Harvest.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwg6yJuWlAvNo5EFM5NBzc5igQU16RxUphPJounqYs2naRFMnp51Z8f2pvod1SqphyphenhyphenBI5YyqC_Jdd_x7P46rEhhfpMXlDFTKV0d8Jk8uV304E8Oft1yM_3o48ElztlgZvOiryzzpq9nKA/s1600-h/DSC02972.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwg6yJuWlAvNo5EFM5NBzc5igQU16RxUphPJounqYs2naRFMnp51Z8f2pvod1SqphyphenhyphenBI5YyqC_Jdd_x7P46rEhhfpMXlDFTKV0d8Jk8uV304E8Oft1yM_3o48ElztlgZvOiryzzpq9nKA/s400/DSC02972.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326936755988928082" /></a><br />We did find some time to do a short tour of central London. It was Jessica and Alli's first time to see the city so we toured Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, shoved ourselves into a phone booth, and spent some time in Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Square. It was a whirlwind tour and the beginning of great team bonding. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgAA7DGFRDD1Bn3f4dokNLdNTwpF35RY1ILj2QkEXVpl6YgPqeFqkc7l-dm-bImH_Ufp7UARmOVo7VnHRKv-ynllo3g88ZOL2P78aMQvyDDCTvhavpIwb9peLMEccjF4fqn6Cf8cSR1jI/s1600-h/DSC02997.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgAA7DGFRDD1Bn3f4dokNLdNTwpF35RY1ILj2QkEXVpl6YgPqeFqkc7l-dm-bImH_Ufp7UARmOVo7VnHRKv-ynllo3g88ZOL2P78aMQvyDDCTvhavpIwb9peLMEccjF4fqn6Cf8cSR1jI/s400/DSC02997.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326937409646424754" /></a><br />And, of course, we made time for espresso. As a rule, there is always time for caffeine with Worshiplanet.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjveNlkvxGhY-emO_KtNH10bob9cVhbehiVFk1WCYvc2Ha1r6JHVn2a-OEswDBvyN4W_HJueLVdCAxdH1MTbIf5GhlKNfVhG0zah4gz81QIDVqSbXzLdl_H7JwD4gp7GjRk1t6S4P3WjlU/s1600-h/DSC03040.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjveNlkvxGhY-emO_KtNH10bob9cVhbehiVFk1WCYvc2Ha1r6JHVn2a-OEswDBvyN4W_HJueLVdCAxdH1MTbIf5GhlKNfVhG0zah4gz81QIDVqSbXzLdl_H7JwD4gp7GjRk1t6S4P3WjlU/s400/DSC03040.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326938296860165410" /></a><br />On April 4th, we loaded everything (and everyone) into 2 vehicles and headed north to Skegness. Skegness is an oceanside town with a Butlins Resort that hosted the 30,000+ people that attend Spring Harvest. The first week, the band led worship for the young adults in the iScape program. It was a joy to worship alongside young people as they learn to be Jesus' apprentices.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWV94H4L3HsUhVO1SKoE0hvXPd-y0rX-hCA50ZI5RYiSazyj7s46fpoekgfTT264_wfeclRmlepRzGhPdcwSln5oPzFFrS3PccBChbvNvkGvA4gsPnVKOEcIVrlxuS9siYrI-F_ip_ls/s1600-h/DSC03178.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWV94H4L3HsUhVO1SKoE0hvXPd-y0rX-hCA50ZI5RYiSazyj7s46fpoekgfTT264_wfeclRmlepRzGhPdcwSln5oPzFFrS3PccBChbvNvkGvA4gsPnVKOEcIVrlxuS9siYrI-F_ip_ls/s400/DSC03178.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326939308156510226" /></a><br />The second week, Mark and the band switched over to the Big Top to lead worship with the adults. The Big Top is named that because it's truly a circus tent. Every morning and evening thousands of worshippers would raise their voices under that yellow and green striped tent. It was absolutely beautiful. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXuAKuMeE_KhqRfLVY14HKgtPEkXekjfXx9UpTdgxwkhOc841Dj5ilavS__Qt5rBOqN8ZIgM7JumgkOM2GgnvI2MkoLveeobkuZlDdTqxuwUmTIutRtOWQWwQLZELhtUzEM-RYe97CUs4/s1600-h/DSC03163.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXuAKuMeE_KhqRfLVY14HKgtPEkXekjfXx9UpTdgxwkhOc841Dj5ilavS__Qt5rBOqN8ZIgM7JumgkOM2GgnvI2MkoLveeobkuZlDdTqxuwUmTIutRtOWQWwQLZELhtUzEM-RYe97CUs4/s400/DSC03163.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326940465216284994" /></a>This, of course, is the Reader's Digest version of a fantastic two weeks. For those of you that attended Spring Harvest- it was our pleasure to meet you and worship alongside you! <div><br /></div><div>-The Worshiplanet Band<br /><br /></div>Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-46002957000755746322009-04-01T09:32:00.000-06:002009-04-01T09:34:29.551-06:00Spring Harvest UK<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9H4c_KC52aO4-ImUkPVJ_jHWJk5qGiXJ4UPfgRLLT_uXzvU_Lsh1WKhFkpDN2EnDkSHwo4HAdKGZXTgsejau8URKOXnJjU9c5NAUF-3aJAe4vMycdynahhMi4qlNbN7r4Fv3_k3y57x0/s1600-h/sh09-footer-8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 92px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9H4c_KC52aO4-ImUkPVJ_jHWJk5qGiXJ4UPfgRLLT_uXzvU_Lsh1WKhFkpDN2EnDkSHwo4HAdKGZXTgsejau8URKOXnJjU9c5NAUF-3aJAe4vMycdynahhMi4qlNbN7r4Fv3_k3y57x0/s400/sh09-footer-8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319746369579442930" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcutJHQ1rsU6pQY-pKgZxhGhKsYgfnCryieOGMVPX8X3KE24VKrrcMBkBS9JRQDZm_Vqie1PqioMW8hL7FQgDSMTIpTP_2JnYe3WlvXYMp7plvk5C8Ksqbz99BVBfVveJ4adRqUBeN4I/s1600-h/sh09-footer-3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 92px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcutJHQ1rsU6pQY-pKgZxhGhKsYgfnCryieOGMVPX8X3KE24VKrrcMBkBS9JRQDZm_Vqie1PqioMW8hL7FQgDSMTIpTP_2JnYe3WlvXYMp7plvk5C8Ksqbz99BVBfVveJ4adRqUBeN4I/s400/sh09-footer-3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319746367107595378" /></a><br /><br />Hey everybody – we’re heading out to the UK for three weeks to lead worship at Spring Harvest. Spring Harvest (<a href="http://www.springharvest.org">www.springharvest.org</a>) is Britain’s largest Christian event which happens annually over the Easter holidays. Spring Harvest exists to equip the church into action. We will be leading worship week one for iScape. iScape is a program designed for those in their late teens and early twenties. With a strong emphasis on worship and Bible teaching, we're going to discover what it means to have an extreme faith and how we can live this out in the world. We will be leading worship for morning and evening celebrations alongside a team of some of Britain’s leading youth communicators. It’s gonna be fun & loud!!! <br /><br />Week two, we’ll be leading worship in the Big Top. Worship in the Big Top is a little different. We’ll be working with a team of the UK’s leading communicators and equippers in post-Christian Europe. The theme this year for Spring Harvest is Apprentice”, with the backdrop of Matthew 11:28-29 - 'Come to me... learn from me...' said Jesus, 'for I am gentle and humble in heart.' Jesus' constant challenge to the people he met, was 'follow me'. His first disciples were apprentices, learning from his words, his stories, his actions and his attitudes. We will be leading worship for the Big Start – an early morning celebration including 4000 adults and about 2000 of their kids! The morning is basically a ‘wake-up’ to the day with fun, worship, short bible teaching and prayer. Then there’s the Evening Celebration which will include a full-on time of worship, teaching and creative expression in worship. <br /><br />Week three we will be leaving Spring Harvest and heading down to London for a few days of meetings before taking the train to Norwich for a weekend of worship services with King’s Church. (www.kings-norwich.com) Thanks guys for hanging in there with us and covering this trip with your prayers. We need them!!Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-87196192358241650392009-03-17T13:24:00.000-06:002009-03-17T13:38:58.592-06:00Winter Camp: A Note from Mark<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJAyfhPZnB-ToKN1oHFcxqXTBBG7fb3iVfPK5rWpoYnNs63QjoRcZME8taBf0_nqvOtO_pJYM8BFbyVumDlkFilmVQ5jSiWbIhwkSmcMzzyk3cMXsbIvmIGiH6KWkWOpl3va34GaUji8/s1600-h/kids.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJAyfhPZnB-ToKN1oHFcxqXTBBG7fb3iVfPK5rWpoYnNs63QjoRcZME8taBf0_nqvOtO_pJYM8BFbyVumDlkFilmVQ5jSiWbIhwkSmcMzzyk3cMXsbIvmIGiH6KWkWOpl3va34GaUji8/s400/kids.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314243158525934050" /></a><br />I was in the middle of a week of meetings with church leaders and pastors in Hong Kong. I checked email that afternoon and received a message from Andy asking if I would consider leading worship for the winter youth retreat. 'Winter Camp' was less than 2 weeks away! Yikes! The worship leader who was slated for the event was called away to a family emergency - songs were already selected, the band was rehearsed and my head was totally light years away from thinking Youth Retreat! <br />It's exactly what God had planned for me since the beginning...through the miracle and speed of technology, I was able to review songs from earlier university gigs we did in Beijing, send the chord charts & mp3's to my friend Don McCaleb. He posted them on the youth winter camp web site for the band to download, practice and 2 days before camp - I was sitting on a stool on the stage of Woodmen Valley Chapel, leading a rehearsal. Two days later (and in the middle of jet lag) I was leading 350 students in worship with a very competent and focused band around me. <br />The Spirit of God was like a fresh wind that blew through that place as students worshiped with abandon! There's something about youth that is 'free' in their worship, no inhibitions, no pretense - just simply "child-like". (Matthew 18:3) It was a refreshing 3 days hanging out with students, hearing their stories of renewal, commitment, brokenness and determination to live the life for Him! I am grateful to God for the opportunity. Honestly, I was ill prepared, jet-lagged, didn't really want to do it, but the Father in his loving ways, always knows what's best for us even when we don't. Note to self: to obey is better than sacrifice.Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-26338494639323086242009-03-05T14:23:00.000-07:002009-03-05T14:33:29.407-07:00Disturb us, Lord.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpwTP4bToE6Pq9K_mrt5RIBdkfhfs8RIlT3kGdrlEIkcoFAjOA5vXdbrObPUOMmuiKZhRaOo6ZwscYoYBiTJqoyyzRqykpBkLvEhuz7GAqTvG5BW2H7FHkFy7K0sD-UsYp732ps9MmvI/s1600-h/2337561748_bf4f917d72_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpwTP4bToE6Pq9K_mrt5RIBdkfhfs8RIlT3kGdrlEIkcoFAjOA5vXdbrObPUOMmuiKZhRaOo6ZwscYoYBiTJqoyyzRqykpBkLvEhuz7GAqTvG5BW2H7FHkFy7K0sD-UsYp732ps9MmvI/s400/2337561748_bf4f917d72_b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309819844037089602" /></a><br />Read at Sunday Night Live in Beijing during the worship service. This poem was written by Francis Drake. He was England's most famous sailor and explorer, he sailed around the world in the ship - 'The Golden Hind' in 1580 and led the outnumbered British Navy to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588. <br /><br />This prayer was found in his ship's diary, written on the eve of one of his great adventures: <br /><br />Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves,<br />When our dreams have come true<br />Because we dreamed too little,<br />Because we sailed too close to the shore. <br />Disturb us, Lord, when<br />With the abundance of things we possess<br />We have lost our thirst<br />For the waters of life;<br />Having fallen in love with life,<br />We have ceased to dream of eternity<br />And in our efforts to build a new earth,<br />We have allowed our vision<br />Of the new Heaven to dim. <br /><br />Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,<br />To venture on wilder seas<br />Where storm will show Your mastery;<br />Where losing sight of land,<br />We shall find the stars. <br />We ask You to push back<br />The horizons of our hopes;<br />And to push us in the future<br />In strength, courage, hope, and love.<br />This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ. <br /><br />Amen.Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-18008709844310202952009-03-05T14:19:00.000-07:002009-03-05T14:22:57.619-07:00From the Mainland to HK Island<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1LsD43wBh81cIyKZ7-8aPSxYjcnio1G54mkMSV0LLbReXEmQBX-6jixYUfOwEAV2AUOk9B2x3A8V6d_b14-PCg4MIO3-Y50Et94MVFQ19qwUDyvm0KoHBMPrOnTJdowPuNcD9z9jgDQY/s1600-h/Jeff+N+Aviary+HKGfeb09+002.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1LsD43wBh81cIyKZ7-8aPSxYjcnio1G54mkMSV0LLbReXEmQBX-6jixYUfOwEAV2AUOk9B2x3A8V6d_b14-PCg4MIO3-Y50Et94MVFQ19qwUDyvm0KoHBMPrOnTJdowPuNcD9z9jgDQY/s400/Jeff+N+Aviary+HKGfeb09+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309817076058197890" /></a><br />After a week in Beijing, the Tedders made their way to Hong Kong for meetings and worship leading with some good friends. On Friday night, Mark Tedder and Jeff Caylor lead an evening of prayer at Island ECC. The evening had a focus on praying for mainland China and Mark was able to share some songs from The Door. Jeff Caylor, originally from Colorado and an artist on The Door, is now the worship leader at Island ECC on Hong Kong Island. The Tedders and Jeff were able to explore Hong Kong together in their free time. Above is a picture taken on one of their adventures. <br /><br />On Saturday, Mark and Carrie taught a worship workshop at Island ECC. Worshiplanet, the non-profit they spearhead, is a worship-equipping and training ministry.<br /><br />Sunday morning, the Tedders lead worship at The Vine on Hong Kong Island. They ended the weekend with an afternoon service at The Vine, where Tom Read leads worship. Overall, the week in Hong Kong was a time of reconnecting with Asia-based friends and an opportunity to encourage the Church in Hong Kong with worship from the mainland.Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582806904920022596.post-51269372823015719492009-02-18T14:23:00.000-07:002009-02-18T14:30:37.808-07:00Beijing: An update from Carrie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCvqtccSA_4YPSZxyr_t4HG0wCuOwKKqCLq742yy1aPiIthat18aUNUl8Z3r-jx_0-hiCAAS3t2cjW9BBbxfLq-ZubXH4lIDMkVj3ZdSHRfWWmP3ddN-GZCQYsKVsp7nEzh5EvdVEOho/s1600-h/6a00d8345176df69e2011278dc181228a4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCvqtccSA_4YPSZxyr_t4HG0wCuOwKKqCLq742yy1aPiIthat18aUNUl8Z3r-jx_0-hiCAAS3t2cjW9BBbxfLq-ZubXH4lIDMkVj3ZdSHRfWWmP3ddN-GZCQYsKVsp7nEzh5EvdVEOho/s400/6a00d8345176df69e2011278dc181228a4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304252754743352274" /></a><br />The past 72 hours has been a real Beijing Blur. But a good one!<br /><br />On Friday Mark & I scheduled back-to-back coffees with friends. It was so wonderful to catch up with their lives. Then Daniel hosted a drop in party for us Friday night. We had SUCH FUN. Chinese worship leaders & musicians, friends from the BICF, new babies, my language teacher, and even our former driver, Xiao Wang, were in the throng. We trashed Daniel's apartment but had made memories in the process.<br /><br />Saturday we lead worship all day for BICF's spiritual life conference. The speakers for the event were Stuart & Jill Brisoce. We knew from working with them before that the day would also be a very restorative for Mark & I. And it was! Wonderful, wonderful subject matter of 'walking in the spirit'. Another bonus of the day was getting play with Beijing's best bast player and our semi-adopted son Timon from Dominica. <br /><br />Sunday was filled with services, conversations, dim sum, and a praise rally. But our biggest news from the weekend was an expected but none-the-less thrilling phone call from our son Benjamin. He's engaged! Yes. Ben & Megan are officially heading towards marriage. We are SO excited for them and thankful beyond words. We'd been anxiously awaiting the 'she said yes' phone call and was relieved to get it. Even if it came smack in the middle of a worship song!<br /><br />It's now 5am on Monday morning and I'm up before the guys. Which, if you really know me, you know all glory belongs to jet lag because I'm usually the last one up! In 4 hours we catch the train to Hong Kong. So I'll be blogging again once we arrive in southern China.Worshiplanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10418521023914772232noreply@blogger.com