My name is Mary Hua, a junior at Ontario Christian High School. I joined Chapel Leadership when I was a sophomore. This year I am really glad I went to Calvin College Symposium on Worship. This event was a great learning opportunity for how to lead worship for the student body at Ontario Christian High School.
First, the event at Saturday night worship was a great experience. They had an international service. People who came from different countries, different denominations, spoke different languages, and all came together as ONE body in Lord Jesus Christ. The service was based on Psalms 15-24, and people from different countries read in Spanish and English. Also, they led people to sing in different languages. When Korean students were singing in their own language it wasn't just really cool. It also really put everyone together in Christ Jesus. This reminds me that our God can draw together completely different people.
Secondly, the most helpful things I learned at the Symposium were how to worship, how to lead worship, and how to reveal God to other believers. During the Thursday session, I learned that worship is not just singing praise songs and preaching the Gospel to believers. Worship is also having the visuals prepared for the audience. And also I learned that the transition between each section is an important element to have in the chapel service. For example, between a song and a verse there needs to be a connection in the middle of it, so Calvin College students showed us how to have a flexible transition between a song and a verse. They set up a great example for us, so we could get the idea of what was the transition looked like, so we could apply this to the chapel services.
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