The lofty task of reaching the world for Christ requires a collective effort by the Body of Christ. For us here at CreaComm, the heart of our ministry has always been to see spiritual movements everywhere. As we play our part and commit ourselves to movement building, we focus on the following 3 strategies:

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contentsp.1-2 From The Editor

p.3-4Resourcing & Mobilizing

p.5-8Engaging Culture-Shapers

p.9-10Creating Kingdom Content

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Simon Seow Editor-In-Chief

Fong Li Ling Editor

Khoo Lay Kuan Art Director

Raymond Yee Production Coordinator

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Firstly, we want to ResOuRCe And MOBilize Christians who desire Kingdom impact. Whether it be churches, ministry organizations or individuals, we want to make our tools, services and resources available to help you, our partners, associates or volunteers, reach your target audience and help you fulfill what God is leading you to do. Our repertoire includes training workshops (for e.g. worship, communications, film, dance, web outreach), music bands, short films and film outreach facilitation. Our goal is to equip, enhance and empower our partners with quality materials, content and training resources for the purpose of evangelism and discipleship.

secondly, we want to enGAGe CulTuRe-shApeRs, those who already have a place in arts, media and entertainment industries, and students who will inherit places there in the future. We look to build life-on-life relationships with fellow artists, even coaching and mentoring them, being a source of support as they realize their dreams. engaging culture-shapers allows us to serve and minister to Christian arts professionals, as well as influence non-Christians.

Thirdly, we want to creaTe Kingdom conTenT -- film, music, dance, writings -- that will penetrate and impact society. as ministers gifted with artistic talents, one of the most direct ways we impact culture is to create art that comes from the Father's heart. god is all for redemption, not just of our souls, but also the world we live in. as children of god we ought to make it a point to transform our world with the values of our Father's Kingdom. arts, entertainment and media is the language of a culture; it is imperative that we lay hold of, and release god-content into our cultural landscape, in order to sow and till the ground, and awaken people to their longings and need for god.

These strategies are in no order of importance, and are closely intertwined with one another. For example, as we focus on creating quality Kingdom content, it allows us to resource and mobilize the church, while also giving us credibility to engage culture-shapers.

as you read on, may you be encouraged and inspired by lives touched and lives changed by our great god. There is more yet unseen!

Fong Li Ling, editor

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INSPIRE & IMPART- Alternation’s Worship Training Partnerships

Congregational worship is arguably a ‘main course’ in the gathering of the Saints. But it’s interesting to note how many worship teams have never received proper training for both the HEART and CRAFT of what they do regularly. Even if they have, to the tired worship leader, or the stagnating worship musician, a training session can be both refreshing and renewing for one's personal vision for ministry.

That’s what Alternation (ForeRunner’s worship community) has started to do in recent times – conduct training and equipping workshops for worship ministers. Our heart is for people to respond to God in passionate worship, and encounter His presence that changes lives. Since September 2009, Alternation has taken on a few partnerships to resource the Church. They include training the Youth worship ministry in Bethesda Frankel Estate Church (BFEC), and conducting a 4-hour Ministry Equipping Package on worship at METAmorphosis* last December. We see these partnerships as precious relationships, and vital means to build up other parts of the Body so they can be strengthened and in turn, go on to serve and influence others in their own spheres.

At these sessions, we share the biblical foundations of worship and our identity as worshippers, and try to express what we often intuitively do as practical handles on worship leading as a team. Like the way Alternation usually minister, we share many testimonies from our own journey as well. We recall how Matthew, our volunteer co-worship leader and electric guitarist, shared a heart-felt testimony on finding deep approval in the Lord when he felt inadequate about his skills. Of this, James (student, NUS) reflected, “I could relate to and was really blessed by Matt’s testimony of how he experienced God as he served."

Beyond teaching, the team takes care to give time to both worshipping with, as well as

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ministering to individuals at the altar. Worship is both taught and ‘caught’, and we’re most excited to help facilitate encounters with the Lord! At BFEC, we were able to pray for every young person at the altar. It was joyous to see God move in many hearts! I (Eeleen) was touched to be able to pray for girls who shared their struggles, amidst tears, with accepting the love of God and wanting to know Him more. Philip, an NYP student who attended the META workshop, shared, “I actually fell into the 3 categories of people that Eeleen called for, to go forward for prayer on the first night and felt ministered to through the worship & prayer.”

Equipping others is especially valuable because they are released to do God’s work, and ministry multiplies. After our time at BFEC, Trevor, a youth, wrote back to share how the team was impacted the very next night: ”...to conclude the worship retreat, we had a night of worship - the band playing was made up entirely of inexperienced youths! We had doubts if the youths would be ENERGISED and EMPOWERED to worship REGARDLESS of CIRCUMSTANCE. Contrary to what we thought, God really moved amongst us that night! We could feel His presence among us and almost everyone was worshipping God freely - finally, they get to experience the joy of worshipping such a wonderful Creator!!! It was really inspiring and uplifting. Once again, thanks so, so much for coming to share what it means to truly worship God in Spirit, and in Truth!”

What a joy to inspire and impart!

*METAmorphosis is Singapore Campus Crusade for Christ's biannual tertiary student conference.

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Engaging Culture-Shapers

"Laying The Foundation Of Many Generations"

We believe that our ministry is called to do two main things: Calling Back and Setting Free.

Cove Red's heart-cry is to reach those beyond the church's radar -- the poor in spirit, the atheist, the oppressed, the burdened, the hardened, the captive. We hope to do that by combining music and missions (local and overseas), and sharing our songs and stories at our gigs.

Isaiah 61 is a key passage on what I (Su Yin) think God has called us to use our music to do. We think that music that comes from God sets people free, proclaims liberty, the acceptable year of the Lord and the gospel, and we (and those who respond to our message) will be Oaks of Righteousness, Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell In, "laying the foundation of many generations".

All of these are powerful promises that the gospel can

touch and rebuild people's lives, because Christ has done all of that for each of us who have been redeemed.

"Voices Beyond Walls"

We have played at a mix of "interesting" events and places. A

couple of the most memorable ones are an interfaith dialogue at a Sikh

Temple, where we attempted to sing a prophetic song to a puzzled and

mixed group of listeners; and secular humanist gatherings, where we had fun

talking with people who enthusiastically slam the Christian faith and shoot us hard

questions we find impossible to answer because every attempt to rebut comes ten

more questions. A big milestone would also be our "unofficial" EP*, "Awaken The

Dreamer" released last May! *An EP is a CD that has a longer playtime than a single, but shorter than a full-length album.

"The Cove Red Effect"

We've had strangers who have given us feedback that our music is different and

appealing, as well as forged a few good friendships formed. A peculiar incident occurred when we played at a flea market at

Haji Lane during the Christmas season. Our repertoire included a radical remix of "O Come All

Ye Faithful". What surprised us was that out of the entire set, the carol got the loudest applause from our audience!

Even though the fruit of our ministry isn’t very obvious, we have faith that God works through us

in the audience when we pray at gig venues and sing prophetically over people.

We’ve found that Facebook serves as a good platform to keep in touch with other musicians and "fans", but

we also hope to go a lot deeper with these contacts in order to get closer to the Great Commission -- making disciples. At the end of the day, it really is about

awakening a slumbering world to another that they feel nostalgia for, yet never understood, that which is

the Father's Kingdom of perfect grace, freedom and love. And what a great joy and privilege it is for us to be

a part of His sacred redemptive plan.

Tracing Cove Red's Footprints...Next Page Pub (along Mohamed Sultan Road), The Esplanade, Ben & Jerry's Chunk Fest, a polytechnic's Open House, HDB community Christmas outreach events, church/fellowship events, and school outreaches. In a recent voting competition organized by *SCAPE to be the opening act for Copeland, they won! It was a dream come true, especially for Su Yin.

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Making BeliefWhen Rachael Teo and Koh Su Yin joined ForeRunner (FR) as volunteers, they never expected each other's paths to cross. In 2009, their common passions in music, social justice and people-at-risk brought them together, resulting in the conception of Cove Red. Using the format they learnt as FR volunteers of sharing stories from their personal journeys to undergird their song choices in their gigs, Cove Red hopes to uplift and inspire their listeners through their music.

Main Pics: Rachael (bottom left corner) and Su Yin (top right corner)

"I have had a burden for art students to come to know the Lord since I was a student in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Yet the journey to arriving in an arts school was a long one. That's why when I received my acceptance letter into LASALLE, I was filled with joy and passion. I couldn't stop praising God for His grace to grant me a place there.

When my first school term commenced, I was on fire -- burning with passion, desiring to make a difference on campus. However, things did not happen the way I envisioned it.

SEEDS OF FIRESamantha (Sam) was involved in SCCC's Ngee Ann Polytechnic ministry when she was a student there. When she transited to a degree program at LASALLE College of the Arts, not only did she face a stark change in her physical academic environment, she also met with a very different spiritual atmosphere. At last year's METAmorphosis, Sam, a Year 2 student, encountered God, and was given a vision of what God desires to accomplish in LASALLE.

Last December, Avelyn and I attended METAmorphosis. At that time, I was undergoing transition in my church-life. I felt lost, wondering what to do. It was then that the Lord convicted my heart through every morning's message, and gave me a new desire to do something for my campus. I realized I had been sitting on the fence for too long. God put it in my heart to start a prayer movement in school, with prayer groups acting as spiritual and academic support for its members. However, I did not know how to go about gathering the Christians in LASALLE.

One of the prayers Avelyn prayed during META was for God to bring like-minded people to me. This prayer was immediately answered when I started school after the holidays. My ex-classmate linked me up with her friend, Jason, a fellow design student. As we chatted over MSN, we discovered we had the exact same vision from the Lord regarding LASALLE! I was astonished -- this person I was complete strangers with just hours ago turned out to be that like-minded someone! I remembered Avelyn's prayer, and knew that the Lord was at work and something is brewing in our campus.

Without hesitation, Jason and I began to get in touch with Christians in our faculty and shared our vision with them. Through much prayer and connecting, we formed a small group. We started off with four and are slowly growing. Currently in the design faculty, God has been opening doors for us to share His love with our friends and connecting with them sincerely. It is our hope to see more groups forming, especially in different faculties."

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I experienced a culture shock, and took an entire semester to adapt to school. I also had difficulty connecting with my schoolmates.

But the Lord brought like-minded people into my path. Avelyn (then a fellow LASALLE student) and we began praying for our school in early 2009, and then in June, Joy, a Creative Communications staff, joined us. We met up regularly to intercede for our campus, truly desiring to see the Lord work in LASALLE.

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Pic: Samantha (left) and Avelyn

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Creating Kingdom Content

Bringing the unchanging gospel to a changing generation calls for us to be at the forefront of what is changing in our cultural landscape. This generation's consumption of creative content is unlike any other generation before us, and it will only increase with advancing technology. Thus, there is an increasing onus on God's artists to create content reflective of God's beauty and glory, boasting of Kingdom values that would awaken people to their innermost longings and the eternal.

In CreaComm, we want to make it our priority to create content that sows into the hearts of our audience, bringing them one step closer to opening their hearts to Jesus. We want to strive for excellence in our craft in order to establish credible platforms which would give us a voice in the marketplace of ideas.

The 48-Hour Film Project is a platform Wide Angle Productions (WAP) rode on that gave them the freedom to create and the space to showcase their work amongst a group of independent filmmakers in Singapore. Participating in such a competition not only challenges their filmmaking skills, it also presents in itself an opportunity to rub shoulders with other filmmakers.

It's all about influence.

As artists, our art is a lens through which people look into our lives. What our lives contain -- the truth, the Spirit

of God, the love of God -- ought to flow out of the abundance of our hearts into the art we create. Even the

brokenness and pain we bear that comes through in our art serve as a reminder of the fragility of our humanity and

the transcendence of this world, which enable us to hope and speak of it.

We recognize the call that God has for us to create that which comes from His heart -- to call out, to surface, to heal, to awaken -- in a world

that yearns for authenticity and genuine connection. And in creating that connection, we are able to guide our audience back to the heart of God.

We dream of the day WAP makes a feature film; the day ForeRunner bands cut their own albums and help artists in the community cut theirs too. We dream of stories being told and books written. Even more so, we dream of people responding more and more to the touch of the Great King with the

strike of a chord, the utterance of a word, the graceful, guided move of

a dancer. We dream of our world being redeemed.

SOWING INTO THE CULTURE

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"What made the event most meaningful for me was getting to meet fellow co-labourers from Radio Bible Class (the publishers of Our Daily Bread), Youth for Christ and individuals representing many local churches. Though it seemed there are not many of us ministering on the online platform, seeing God’s hand leading the different efforts greatly bolstered our faith. Some are working with secondary students through storytelling classes, a group is writing online games to touch gamers, while still others are

improving their church websites to make a greater impact. Yet we have one goal: to communicate the greatness and love of our Lord through the Internet. This sense of His leading motivates me to keep at what I’m doing in the Internet ministry.

As a result of that event, some of us have met to brainstorm on more specific projects to try on our church websites or Facebook pages. We want to reach those outside the church better through these platforms. Please pray for us as we develop on this, for wisdom and vision all the way through to implementation and results. Pray for this aspect of missions – online missions!"

-- Victor Toh