There's no video edit today. I think I'm still tired from yesterday's video editing. Instead, I went to church for practice around 4pm. It's the first for me after a long time and it will be like this for a very long while too. It's time to straighten my priorities from here on, because my vacation is officially over. I'll be back at work next week by the way.

Before going to the practice, I was waiting for my dad to come home and pick me up. It's just expected that their Bible Study would get extended further than 3:30pm. If I could sum up our church in one word, I'd pick "prayerful." It's a prayerful church. I'm not surprised that our service gets extended every Sunday, because everyone prays a lot. Being as a deep Christian, a long prayer isn't a problem, but time is a factor to a Sunday service. We'll have trouble introducing people to Christ if we always extend further than 12:30pm every Sunday. Realistically speaking, we have to watch out for the babes in Christ who aren't used to long services and continually foster their spirit so that in time they won't mind if the service gets extended numerous times.

The truth is people are willing to attend every the Sunday service. It's just that the service takes long. I mean we already have other programs such as the Bible Study in the Sunday evening, Youth Wednesday, Bible Study at homes, Dawn Watch and the Bible University every Saturday. I was thinking that we should have an evangelical Sunday where we would keep the service short but retain the core aspect of a Sunday church meeting and use that day to evangelize people. We would have the Opening Prayer, Praise and Worship, Testimonies, the Pastor's Message, and then the Benediction. This is just what I think.

Anyway, back to waiting... it turned out that the Bible study got extended, because the topic involved statues. Anyway, I practiced and then got home at 7pm. My head was aching a bit. I was also called to do some more intricate work for the music ministry in the future. To put it simply, I'd be teaching my substitute. This is what I've been doing in the past too. I can't help feel frustrated and disappointed when my student left the church due to family issues. And it's not even him that decided to leave church. He's very much willing, but I just shake my head at their circumstances. Moving on, so yeah, I'll be teaching again. Back to phase 1. I'll also be teaching Praise and Worship leading.

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