Music Coordinator - Bernice Lim

Aim:

As the music coordinator for COSDU, the greatest aim and biggest commitment should be to provide for music in Cosdu, both for mass and weekly praise and worship, so that through songs and through music we are able to draw people closer to God. It is essential that the person in this position should be able to encourage musicians to use their talents to serve God in this ministry as it is indeed a very fun and fulfilling ministry. It is important for the coordinator to be enthusiastic about music and enthusiastic about using this wonderful gift that God has given us to give glory and praise to His name.

Responsibilities:

The responsibilities that is entailed with this role includes choosing appropriate songs for mass and praise and worship sessions, preparing the sheet music for the musicians, organising music practices, leading the music practices, arranging the transportation of the instruments, setting up and packing up the instruments at the venue. However, the biggest part of it is leading the musical direction of the group.

Qualities:

Having said that, possessing good leadership skills and knowledge of music is important to be successful in this role, though not essential. This is highly recommended as often the responsibility of merging different playing styles and techniques of the musicians together is not easy. One does not have to be the best musician in the group to lead the group, but the more important aspect of leading in the music ministry is that one should be able to facilitate the abilities and great talents that all musicians are blessed with, and put them together.

Music coordinator also acts as a facilitator to members in the group. He/she needs to nurture members’ interest in music and strive to build members’ self esteem and confidence in performance. By providing a supportive, motivating and a stable framework, it will encourage members’ ownership of performance and an increased level of group commitment.

My advice:

Initially, I was quite hesitant to take on this role and run for this position during AGM as I did not believe that I was right for the job due to my lacking talent in music. However, having been serving cosdu in this role for almost a year now, I feel that I have definitely learnt so much from it, and without a doubt, it has helped me to grow both as a person and musician.

So, I'd just like to encourage anyone who is interested in running for this position to just GO FOR IT cause I believe that God always have a plan for us and if you just give Him the chance to do something great through you, then definitely, you WILL NOT regret it.