 ABOUT NEW HEART MINISTRY |
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| NEW HEART'S HISTORY
We are a group of musicians with classical music
background from different countries and God brought us together in
Houston. In December of 1992 while we were serving at Houston
Chinese Church, we began to have a new awareness of the importance of
worship and seek to improve our service.
Besides equipping ourselves with more musical training, we devoted,
more importantly, more time to personal worship.
Our conviction is that unless we become worshiper of God, we will
not be able to become good worship leaders.
How can one lead the way without knowing it? We
experienced tremendous revivals in our lives in the following years and we
also witnessed changes in the lives of our congregation. God’s Presence
becomes very real and, to us, He is not only a God whom we know
intellectually but also a God whom we adore with our whole beings. This
encounter propelled us to a relentless pursuit of personal holiness and
the removal of all things that was obstructing our path to worship God. In
the summer of 1994, our worship leader
Rev. Ephraim Cheng answered
God’s call into full-time ministry to be a music minister at Houston
Chinese Church. During his personal worship, God spoke to him through the
words of David to Solomon, “Be strong and of good courage, and do it, do
not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, will be with you.
He will not leave you nor forsake you, until you have finished all
the work for the service of the house of the Lord. . . . and every willing
craftsman will be with you for all manner of workmanship, for every kind
of services.” (I Chron. 28:20) The words “DO IT” urged him to offer
his life as a sacrifice to Him for the specific task of worship-leading. God
was faithful to add to the worship team different godly and able members.
As the ministry flourished, our team prayed for ways that we can be used
by God to expand our ministry and to share our experiences with other
churches. In November of 1995, all of our team members committed to
a day of fasting and prayer to ask God for future direction. When Pastor
Brian Lam of Fort Bend Community Church suggested that we should start a
music ministry, we believed that this was an answer to our prayers. We named
this ministry as “New Heart Music Ministries” because we are convinced
that no one can come to the Lord in worship unless a “new heart” is given
to him by grace through faith.
By
the grace of God, “New Heart Music Ministries” was established as a
non-profit organization in 1997, and a board of trustees was also formed.
In August of the same year, Dr. Yenn Chwen Er became the
first full-time staff of the ministry. As the director, he oversees the
ministry, and concentrates especially on composition and arrangement of
songs. In August of 1999, Czarina Cheng, with a
background in music, business administration, and library science, also
answered God’s call and joined the ministry. Her chief responsibilities
include administration,
publications, worship-leading,
teaching
and training. ABOUT NEW HEART MINISTRY |
“ I will give you a new heart and will put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.“ (Ezekiel 36:26) |
NEW HEART SEEKS TO USHER PEOPLE INTO THE PRESENCE
OF GOD THROUGH MUSIC. |
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