Post-GLS sentiments

It's been a few days since the end of GLS. I totally crashed and slept for 13 hrs after the conference ended cos it was so intense for the past 2 weeks. haha! But it really was a blast, an incredible experience! To hear that people were really blessed and ministered through the event just makes all the hard work worthwhile. To see 800 pastors/church leaders lavish such extravagant worship upon God took our breath away...we were truly blessed and moved to witness that beautiful scene. The atmosphere in the place was amazing. And of cos, it was also heaps of fun! :) Seeing people totally embrace the songs was so encouraging for us! Some even stayed back to groove along to "Say So" (a major hit) and "For all You've done". The sound crew was lapping it all up too, and we could see them grooving at the F.O.H while we were onstage.

I'm so so proud of our team right now for their diligence, commitment, spirit of excellence, and the unity and support they've shown for each other. :) I think we were all stretched artistically for this event, and we've all grown a lot. But I also know that we're nowhere near our peak performance, so I'm quite excited thinking about the road ahead. :)

It all feels a bit weird now that GLS is over. I miss the team and the crazy GLS experience. haha!

Here are a few more photos from the 2 week GLS boot camp. :)

GLS rehearsal in action. Check out how all the vocalists are sitting with the same pose. haha! L-R: Mich, Jan, Cheryl, Seng

Sam was trying to take a photo of just the girls, but Ivan our electric guitarist (behind) seems determined to muck it up. haha! [And Abi or Glenn...before you say anything, I KNOW that's not how you tie a shemagh scarf. It was very cold, I was trying to get as much coverage out of that piece of cloth as possible. ]

Arun, our Sitar Hero and Bollywood Star, bathed in blue mood lights.

Ivan sitting down and listening attentively to the wisdom of Arun, our Sitar Guru. haha! Ok, not really lah.

Jeremy on the djembe for the acoustic song item.

I think we should have made a DVD on the whole GLS experience...then we could have captured some of these hilarious "Behind the scenes" moments:
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1) Arun, after Andrea pronounced an additional rehearsal, he sang:

"Let the redeemed of the Lord STAY BACK, let the redeemed of the Lord RE-HEARSE!" (the original song lyrics from "Say So" go "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so")
[Yeah...we were all quite high and gone by then. ahha!]

2) While waiting to go onstage..this is what our seemingly professional worship team is really up to backstage- Making funny shapes with Ivan's glow in the dark guitar pick under a reading lamp. (if you cover up certain parts with ur finger, you get a dark patch on the pick.) We managed to create a cross on the pick..and it inspired Arun to say something like, "HOLY PICK!"

3) We ran out of time to run through one of our sets properly for a final time, so Andrea said we'll just run through it verbally backstage. Most of us thought this meant just talking through the song sequence (eg. verse x 1, chorus x 2, bridge etc.). But what happened was this.....each band member started singing out his/her instrumental part, to the surprise of the vocalists. So some were singing the introduction of "Adonai" to "deh neh neh neh", while in the background, Jeremy was singing out his drum parts (syncopation, drum crashes n all), Ivan singing his electric guitar riffs etc. It was quite hilarious. So "verbal run through" is like dat lor. haha! Try it out with your own band!