Summary of Worship Team Meeting on Jan. 16, 2011

>1) The current team members are: Josh, Liju, Xiaoxi, Hanju, Chien-Chi, Lei, Tim, Shihai, Changyu, Leng Na, and Yongqiang. David also helps with piano on normally once a month basis.
2) New worship schedule for the spring term has been finalized. We will explore a fixed worship group structure. Each worship lead will be accompanied by two fixed singers for the whole spring term starting in March when Sister Changyu returns. One purpose of the fixed Lead-Singers format is for better team building and worship preparation.
3) We try to work out a mechanism to receive prompt and constructive feedbacks after each Sunday‘s worship from (a) brothers and sisters in the congregation, and (b) designated members among co-workers and/or worship team members. The constructive feedback will help worship team members to grow in this area and to be better prepared to serve the congregation.
4) To better equip us in worship ministry, Worship team members will read a new Worship Book together. The book is titled 靈命更新的敬拜 Spiritual Transformation Through Worship by 楊豐恩牧師. This has been purchased and should come in soon.
5) Brother Josh will lead a couple of singing skill training sessions to worship team members when the Chinese new year celebration is over.
6) Chien-Chi and Hanju has been working diligently to compile worship songs database for the church. Some of the song titles are already posted on our Worship Blog.
7) Briefly discussed about Friday’s worships. When each group has been doing an excellent job in leading worship on Fridays, it would be even better if song selections and prayer content on Fridays could make Gospel friends feel more inclusive. Also, the worship time (and Bible study time) should also be appropriately managed so that we can finish more or less on time (around 8:30 pm as intended). This time concern also applies to Sundays since Paster Tang’s message can be quite a long (~70 min) sometimes..
8) We agreed that we like to have Worship ministry team meeting once every two months.

Thanks for your faithful serve in this ministry.
Yongqiang