As you should know by now one of the things I Believe God has gifted me with is Music. When I grew up Mum encouraged me to play a musical instrument. Over the years apart from learning the recorder at primary school. I remember trying out the keyboard, classical guitar, clarinet and trumpet, but I really loved the Saxophone. I remember for one birthday or Christmas Mum got me my own clarinet my first instrument.
Later on I brought myself a guitar and a chord book. This was great and from then on I have grown and developed this talent and I now play Guitar at Eden AOG Church.
Over the years I had many ides like I thought of getting all the buskers together that I used to see around town, to form a band and play beautiful music together. Through my involvement with the Christian Fellowship For Disabled (click here) (CFFD). I also had this idea, well I know it was more like an inspiration from God, to form a band of people with disabilities to help them share there gifting in music. I also had a name J4J (Jam'n For Jesus). One day at one of the CFFD meetings, as we were sharing together Matalena, who also plays Guitar, said that she felt that God had laid it on her heart to start a worship team within the ministry. I was so blown away and also shared what God had laid on my heart about it and together we formed the band and did call it J4J. J4J website (click here) Soon others who heard about it joined and now we play each month on the second Sunday of every month for the Joy Ministries (click here) (JM) group for people who have an intellectual disability. The J4J band was also asked to go as part of the JM Missions trip to see our friends at Joy Fellowship (click here) in Vancouver, Canada in 2009. This was an experience I will never forget.
I thank mum for giving me the opportunity to do this.
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| This is my Fender guitar |
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| Busking setup |
