This short video was made by Ooi Tong and Edwin in Jan 2008 for our AGC business meeting. They started at about 9pm and worked till midnight to get it out. I didn’t place it on the blog or on youtube until I could trace the writer of the song that was used in the video, “Making a Difference”. To my joy, I finally found the history of the song – the song writer is a Singaporean, a neighbour down South. Its great to have beautiful Christian songs written by Asians and enjoyed by people all over the world. To this person, Brother Poh Heng, praise God for blessing you with such a wonderful gift, and I will track down your CD to purchase it when I go to Singapore.
NB: Our camp theme for 2007 was MAD which stands for Making A Difference 4 Jesus, so it was fantastic to find a song with lyrics fitting so well into our theme.
This song was written after Pastor Bill Wilson, a sunday school preacher, came to singapore to share obout his children church ministry in Brooklyn, USA. His message’s main theme was talking about “making a difference”. He shared from Numbers 16.
The people of Israel was rebelling against the leadership of Moses and Aaron. So God wants to destroy the rebellious people, despite attempts by Moses to appease God. When God began to send a plague to destroy the people, Moses instructed Aaron to take a censer and run to the altar to get the incense lighted by fire, and then run to the congregation (who are being plagued) to make an atonement for them.
As Aaron ran to the altar, caught the fire onto the incense and ran to “catch” up with the plague, where he stood with that offering, “between the living and the dead” (Num 16:48), the plague stop.
The story tells us that just one person (in the case above, Aaron), is enough to make a difference in many people’s life. We need to go to the altar and “catch the fire”, just as Aaron did, and stand in between the lost, the people who are in need, and intercede for them before God.
After Pst Bill Wilson message, this song was written by Bro Poh Heng (one of his best song to date), and was sang during our launch of the “Church Without Walls” campaign, where we sought to bring the church out of the four walls of the church building, and go into the community to touch the lives of the less fortunate people (“to stand in the gap”). There begins our community services ministry, which later gave birth to our non-profit organisation – City Harvest Community Services Association.
I understand that this song was also sang and favoured a lot by Pst Lawrence Khong and his church, FCBC – because it also describe their church vision of reaching out to the community.
y is this page restricted only for 2007? not in use anymore?
maybe can post some meaningful songs or scriptures. or anything which uplift the spirit. If possible.
Does Alvin know him?
It’s a very nice song =)
y is this page restricted only for 2007? not in use anymore?
maybe can post some meaningful songs or scriptures. or anything which uplift the spirit. If possible.
very lag lah
then dun use lo …
I miss those days =( …… sudden sadness fall upon me for no reason when i watch the video …… Many things has change, how i wish i could turn back time
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