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Tom,

Please check out iLevite Fellowship. The network which will become part of the new iLevite.com magazine for Christian Musicians. It is totally free. Just go to http://www.ilevite.com

Thanks for considering this.

=Bill Rayborn=

Just to say ... TOM KEEP SINGING FOR THE LORD TIL HE COMES!!! I miss our Choir... I even having nostalgic moment everytime I see our GLORIA pictures last April 2001 at SBC and was my last IBC Choir moment....

Hi Sir Tom,

A follow-up mail...Sir, I've told Ate Christine about our acquaintance here at the singer link and she wants to send her love and regards to all of you there, to your wife Suzanne and to your daughter Rebbecca.

By the way, Sir, I forgot to tell you that I am not a Music graduate and never been in a music school. But I do have my musical training at church with the choir and I joined the College Chorale when I was in College at the University of St. La Salle here in Philippine and I'm proud to say that we are one of the Best Choir here in Philippines.

It is still my earnest and deepest desire then to study Church music in a college of music, But my parents wont allow and do not have money to provide and there are no colleges here in Philippines the offers the course. I am still praying that the Lord would realize and complete all of these desires. Because, It is my prayer that I will be more equip for the music ministry He has entrusted to me and To have a sense of fulfillment deep inside my heart.

Please help me pray.... God Bless your heart!

Cheers,
JOHN

HI Sir Tom,

Hope all is well with you....
Praise God and It's nice to hear from you... Wow! small world!
Yeah, I am her choir Director... and she always loves to share some stories about her experiences with you as their choir director.

The name of our church is Mansilingan First Baptist Church we are just a small church we have 250 members in the congregation and we have 30-50 people in the choir. We are singing SATB in the choir and we do like to sing contemporaryclassic anthems and musical like that of Tom Fettke, D. Clydesdale, Gary Rhodes, Sterling, Kirkland, Williamson, R. Kingsmore, Mark Hayes and many more.

Actually right now we are preparing for our 40th year anniversary which will be on the 26th of April 2009. Our pastor wants the celebration to be more grand and successful. so, we, in the choir is preparing for the a musical concert and we are using the worship musical SANCTUARY by Randy Vader & Jay Rouse from PraiseGathering.

There's lack of choral music resources here like anthems, songbooks, cantata , accompaniments trax here in Philippines that's why we keep on using old resources here. Maybe, you have old and used songbooks and accompaniments or choral materials that you do not need anymore....that might be a blessing for us here to be used by the music ministry of our church.

I forgot to tell you that I am also joining a Christian singing group here. we are called HIS VOICE evangelistic singing ministries. we travel around the province and around manila to preach the word. and we are also supporting missionary pastors around the area.

The groups is struggling right now due to lack of financial assistance, and some members that has lack of commitment to the ministry... but we are still going on despite of all these. We do have 4 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors and 2 Basses. I am one of the bass singer (BARITONE) and we are still looking another 2 Bass singers to help us. Some of the members are still in school some are working professionals.

I am not a full time church choir director I just love to sing and direct a choir yeah... it is my passion...I could say I am so perfectionist when to comes to vocal qualities, projection, diction, note reading and etc...but I am not a good singer like you guys. I am not a music graduate... but still praying that someday I can attend a music conservatory and study church music or whatever....

Actually, our singing group His Voice was planning to go the IBC-Singapore this summer thru the help of the Filipino Congregation under Ptr. Rey Navarro, you know to raise funds for the ministry here in Philippines. But, unfortunately the church just 3 days to accommodate us to stay so we back off with the plan... but we are still praying where the Lord leads. actually we gave Ptr. Rey our CD recordings for some preview of our group. and also it's hard for us to raise funds for our fare. But we are still praying for it.... Maybe you can help us with the English congregation hahahahhhahahha... I'm just kidding Sir.

If you want to hear our groups recording. I post some of our song here on thesingerlink just click it on my page. and also we gave Ptr. Rey 30 copies of this you can ask one of there's available.

God Bless you heart Sir Tom.... Thank you for responding!

Blessings!
JOHN

HI Sir Tom,

This is John Joel Escalona, a choir director here in Mansilingan First Baptist Church in Philippines.

Are you from IBC-Singapore, _ I heard so much about you.
Cause one of our church choir member here was once attending IBC- Singapore and she is from the Filipino Congregation. Christine O. Pastor Do you remember here!

Well, Anyway nice to see you here!

Blessings!
JOHN