Yesterday, we went to a concert in aid of the Gereja Methodist Church SIAC towards their church building fund & maintenance of the Methodist Iban Center. Its sad to note that my local church, Gereja Methodist Ng Assan, was not in the list of the churches to be built within the next 5 years. Somewhere along the line, the local pastor had not done anything to include it in the list; although I am sure all knows about it! Well ... the Lord will provide.
The concert ... it was great! Organized by the Methodist SIAC, and mostly the music was Chinese ... with a about 40% English numbers! My initial thought was ... oh no, the Iban church members are NOT going to enjoy this! The audiences were also mostly SCAC Chinese church members with a handful of SIAC Iban church members (I think countable!). Maybe, this is another mis-judgment. This also reminds me of the 60th SIAC anniversary dinner - whereby it looked like a Chinese function instead of an Iban function. Church leaders need to be firm in this in the meeting!
I heard that the money collected was only about RM16,000 (yours truly contributed about 20% to the collection), and tickets sold were about another RM2,000 (maybe?); thus, it did not meet the target collection/donation of RM100,000.00.
I used complimentary tickets and so our seats were right in the front row! Hoorah, and we got great views of the entire concert!
Here we are, just before the start of the concert; and I believe that the Xin Fu Yuan Methodist Church were full. I was lucky to have a Mandarin translator right beside me! :)
Kami duai menyanak sebedau konsert belaboh. Nasib siko ari kami duai nemu jako Mandarin, ulih meh kena mereti ke nama utai ko orang!
The soprano, Stella Zhou, and tenor, Timothy Huang, doing their opening number. They are both great singers! I would have enjoyed more ... if I understand Mandarin! But the music were great! Just love it!
The Tampin Choir comprising youth, members & Pastor Chiam - their songs were just so lovely and touching! I love the piano player - one of their youth - when he plays the piano, he makes me feel so happy that I want to get up and sit beside him and just hit the ivories!!! hahaha If only I could play as well ... alas, I am a terrible pianist!! Yes, folks; I can hit a few good notes; but not too many! ;)
This is the famous Grace Singers Choir - they sing very well! I was shock to see that one of their member is my SWB staff!!
Grace Koir ari Sibu.
One of two contribution from SIAC, a Ngajat troupe from the Kpg Bahagia Jaya preaching point, and the other was a sape' player. Both did very well; however, I wished there were more performers in English/Bahasa/Iban ... then it would feel more like a SIAC concert rather than a SCAC concert!
Kitai ari Gereja SIAC semina mantai ke dua iti item; ianya kajat indu ari bala ubas Kpg Bhg Jaya serta penebah sape'. Chukup landik bala anak-anak.
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