“Make music to the Lord with the harp; with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn - shout for joy before the Lord, the King.” Fijians are gifted with strong voices and a good ear for music. They sing with enthusiasm and learn to play instruments all by ear. It was our great joy to bring Shiloh Worship Center instruments to assist them in their worship. We brought a bass guitar and a digital piano to add to their two guitars. Each Saturday, we hold a piano class with 5 students learning to play beginning worship keyboard. They have learned to play chords in several keys and have completed the lessons of the book and passed the final exam with excellent scores!

Save (Saw-ve) and Paul are alternating playing the bass guitar on the worship team, and Micah has been appointed the new worship leader for Shiloh Worship Center. Meraiya will take over preparing the worship songs on power point and projecting them each week with the new projector and screen.

Choir rehearsals, with about 15 people learning to read and sing choral music, began last July and we have sung for Sunday morning worship services as well as for Pastor Joseph’s church in Sigatoka. Shiloh Worship Center is making music to the Lord!

Our fifth and final Vacation Bible School was held last week here at Shiloh Worship Center with over 80 students in attendance. Pastor Leoni’s church, the Church of God in Christ, and Pastor Viri’s church, the Church of God, participated with us and it was another great week of ministry and fun as we sang with the children, played games and made our crafts. Pastor Leoni’s wife, Vale and Meraiya assisted me in teaching the Bible stories and we encouraged each of the church groups to sing for their Sunday morning services following the last day of VBS. Here at Shiloh, our Kids’ Church tripled in attendance on Sunday morning as some of the children from the neighborhood came back to sing with us.

This coming week, Shiloh Worship Center will join with other churches in Nadi to sponser a World Impact Tour. Pastor Simeli has been meeting with a network of pastors since last spring to plan this tour. The tour involves the Power Team ministry and GX ministry, along with Island Breeze, a Fijian singing and dancing group who will come and do an evangelistic outreach in several cities of the islands. Last week, their outreach in Labasa brought out 8,000 people in attendance and the pastors here in Nadi are expecting even more to pack out Prince Charles Stadium. Leslie and Stephanie have joined with the other young people of our churches and attended training session by YWAM (Youth With A Mission) to be counselors for all those who respond to an invitation to accept Jesus. It has been a wonderful opportunity for them to learn how to share their testimony and lead a person to faith in Christ and we are so grateful to be here in Fiji to be a part of this outreach. The outreach will be here in Nadi this coming Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Last Sunday night, we combined services with several churches in Nadi at the Assembly of God and enjoyed a tremendous worship service with the believers here in this city. The man known as ‘The Praying Man’, a local Fijian pastor who is known for his praying ministry brought the message and after the service, all the counselors from all the churches stayed for some additional training and preparation. Pastor Simeli has committed Shiloh Worship Center to prepare lunch for the GX team on Saturday so our whole church will be involved in ministering to the team that rides bikes and skateboards. Pray for this outreach in Fiji and pray for our ability to follow up on all those who commit their lives to Christ during this outreach!