Jocelyn Richard leads conference attendees in "Arising"

     Jocelyn Richard, founder of The Praise Dance Life, taught conference attendees about creating more dynamic dances and encouraging a congregation in worship at the "Arise Worship Dance Conference" held in mid-May 2013 in Homewood, Ill.

    The conference was hosted by Worship In Motion and Min. Fran Harris, both of All Nations Community Church in the Chicago suburb of Homewood.

     Jocelyn reminded the gathering to seek God first to know what His will was for their dance ministry and how they are to minister to His people.

     "How can you minister if you don't know His heart?" she asked.

     She also told them that their public ministry time was not the time for their personal uplifting.

     "Don't use the sanctuary as the platform to get your deliverance," she cautioned.  She compared it to their pastor, who might get up to deliver a sermon on Sunday, but who would pause and stop. apparently digesting and gleaning revelation from the message . . . as if just reading it for the first time.

     There was also a time for practical dance technique application, with Jocelyn leading the group in doing several ballet moves (plies, tendues and chaissez) and then later taking about 15 minutes to work ing roups of three and four to create choreography for a piece of music.



American missionaries organize women's empowerment conference in Hong Kong

A group of American missionaries is hosting a women's empowerment conference in a few weeks in Hong Kong, to educate omen there about the abuses perpetrated against them.

     The event is the "Dignity and Honour in His Presence Ladies' Arise Conference," featuring Kathy Balcombe, Dr. Kathy Shiflett and Nancy Green.  The conference runs June 30 to July 1, 2013; about 800 women are expected to attend.

     "This conference is to help women in Hong Kong to know they can be rescued from the injustice done to them as they are lifted into their dignity, honour and destiny in Jesus Christ!" organizer Ken Harley wrote in an email. 

     Admission is free to this event.

     For more information, please visit http://iwirehk.webs.com/dignityandhonourwomen.htm.

 

Dance ministry encourages us to know that God is our Jehovah-Jireh, for 'every mountain . . .'

Mountains will crop up in our lives . . . but for every mountain, we must give God praise . . . before, during and after!
     Mt. Zion's praise dance ministry encourages  us to wage through, with up-lifted praise, "For Every Mountain!
 

May 2013 blooming with these praise-dance offerings

May 2013 is gently blooming with flowers and trees, fully awakened from our past few months of wintry slumber.
     So are our appetites for a worship experience and biblical teaching found at our praise-dance gatherings.
     Listen up, here's a bit of what May 2013 has to offer:
     *  "Express Your Worship Creative Arts Conference," May 3 and 4, 2013, Fort Worth, Texas;
     *  " 'His Resting Place' Worship Dance Conference," with Lynn Hayden of Dancing for Him Ministries, May 3 and 4, 2013, in Quebec, Canada;
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     *  "Dance Worshipper Arise!~ A Dance Conference," featuring Jocelyn Richard of The Praise Dance Life, May 18, 2013, Homewood, Ill.
     To learn of other praise-dance events in May 2013 and in the coming months, please visit www.HisHemMinistryCalendar.blogspot.com.
     Want to see where some of our major praise-dance teachers are going to be this year?  Click here for more information!
 

Would other people trust you to pray for them?

Thought for the Day . . .

     If you don't speak to them, how in the world do you expect them to ever ask you to pray for them . . .?
     . . . Just saying . . .

Fragrance of His Presence, other sweet praise-dance events lead in April 2013

Imagine a warm scrumptious smell of a stew sprinkled with garlic and chives or the sensational aroma of your favorite cinnamon-flavored peach or apple cobbler.  My mind is salivating at the memories of aromas I recently sniffed.

     Just as delectable a these aromas are is how delightful our "scents" are to God, as Prophetess Wanda Bodden wants us to experience at her praise-dance conference this month in Port Neches, Texas.  Wanda is founder of Ministry in Motion Global Ministries.

     The event is "The Fragrance of His Presence Worship Experience," running April 19 to 21,2013, at The Sanctuary in Port Neches, Texas.  Registration is $35.

     One of her featured presenters is psalmist/pastor Cassandra Elliott.

     This ministry experience just one of the awesome opportunities to learn more about worshipping God while honing skills in dance, mime or worship-flags.

     Other worship-arts engagements this month, April 2013, include:

     *  "Explosion of Praise! Worship Dance Conference," with Lynn Hayden, April 19 and 29, 2013, St. Charles, Mo.;

     *  "The Full Armor Worship Dance Conference and International Eagles Advance," April 19 and 20, 2013, Columbia, S.C.;

     *  " 'We Are Alive' Dance Workshop'," April 26 and 27, 2013, Indianapolis, Ind.

     For additional events, visit the His Hem Ministry Calendar of Events page.

     Also, check out some major praise-dance gathering this year by clicking here.

 

( Be blessed by the words, sights and other sounds from Prophetess Wanda Bodden's
"Fragrance of His Presence Worship Experience" in April 2013!, in Port Neches, Texas!)

NEW!!

  CHRISTIAN DANCE

SCHOOLS & STUDIOS
 

CALIFORNIA
     *  CAPA (Cornerstone Academy of Performing Arts), a non-profit dance academy of
              Cornerstone Church, Anaheim, Calif.; telephone:  714.858.1889
              -  Sara Thresher, dance administrator

     *  Ross Dance Company, Oakland, Calif.; www.rossdance.com

Ross Dance Company,
Oakland, Calif.

              -  Dr. Tecsia Evans, founder and artistic director



GEORGIA

     *  The Praise Dance Life, Georgia;
              -  Jocelyn Richard, founder/director


MICHIGAN
     *  AGW Conservatory of the Arts, LLC, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo (at Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts); telephone:  269.965.6695
              - Dr. Angela Graham Williams, artistic director/co-founder


MISSISSIPPI
     *  Ballet Magnificat! School of the Arts, Jackson, Miss.; telephone:  601.977.1001
              -  Kathy Thibodeaux, founder

Randall Flinn of Ad Deum,
Houston, Texas

PENNSYLVANIA
     *  Christ Center For Dance, Bridgeport, Penn.; telephone: 

888.886.4354

               -  Kimberly Brown, artistic director
 
TEXAS
     HOUSTON
     *  Ad Deum Dance Company, Houston, Texas; telephone:  713.626.5050
              -  Randall Flinn, founder/artistic director

     SAN ANTONIO
     *  Great Jubilee Dance & Ministries, San Antonio, Texas; telephone:  210.409.7708
              -   Jeneen Harris, founder