It was during the circuit breaker last year when Teo Teck Kuan first viewed The Blessing Singapore music video, where 177 local churches and movements came together to sing “The Blessing”.

The 24-year-old undergraduate was left amazed by the number of worshippers in Singapore so gifted and blessed by God.

The video also provided him with a flash of inspiration.

TPR is a focal point for the body of Christ to come and gather, with a focus on those who are involved or inclined to the worship ministry.

“One question came to my mind,” said Teck Kuan. “Who were all these people and where did they come from?

“There are actually so many more people out there we don’t know about who are also worshipping God. These people are not professionals either, they’re mostly just serving on Sundays.”

This was Teck Kuan’s light bulb moment, as he realised that there is a need to know people beyond the four walls of his own church.

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With these thoughts and questions in mind, Teck Kuan sought God in prayer because he felt convicted and convinced that God had stirred something in his heart.

Sharing with his two friends, Andrew and Shu Yi, that he wanted to do something in response to what had been laid on his heart, all Teck Kuan knew at the time was that it would have something to do with “gathering people”. 

“The first thing I thought of was to do something digital — something online and accessible for people to do,” he said.

Along with Andrew and Shu Yi, Teck Kuan felt a deep conviction to create an online platform where believers could gather and “share their heart of worship”.

Eventually, conviction grew into something more, as Teck Kuan heard from God what the vision for The Praise Revival (TPR) was be.

Thereafter, in just a few weeks, through divine provision and support from his community, the movement was born.

Explaining what TPR hopes to achieve, Teck Kuan outlined: “TPR is a focal point for the body of Christ to come and gather, with a focus on those who are involved or inclined to the worship ministry.

“The first point of TPR is to connect with different people from different churches, and be a space and a platform for this community to share their thoughts, testimonies and gifts. 

When the body of Christ comes together, I think it’s not just a beautiful thing to see but it’s also a beautiful thing to experience.”

The first point of TPR is to connect with different people from different churches, and be a space and a platform for this community to share their thoughts, testimonies and gifts.

Despite being a new platform, TPR has already garnered close to a hundred like-minded followers on Instagram.

Scrolling through their page, you’ll find various videos that feature individuals from different churches across Singapore responding to TPR’s discussion question of the season, the most recent being: “What does worship mean to you?” 

Friendly little clips like these are some of TPR’s first steps in reaching out to worshippers all across Singapore, inspiring them to catch the heart of worship.

DREAMS FOR THE FUTURE

Other than being a space for worshippers to gather, Teck Kuan also hopes worship ministry members will feel free to discuss very worship-specific topics like how to approach (musically) a particular song in church, for instance.

“We also hope to invite the community to do things like tech reviews or gear reviews, on top of the more spiritual discussions and support the platform can also provide,” he said. 

Having served at his church’s worship ministry since he was in Secondary 3, Teck Kuan is well aware of the challenges and potential pitfalls those who serve may face.

“While playing the keyboard for God, I was more focused on my performance. It was all about not playing the wrong notes,” he revealed. 

“I was telling myself that my perfect playing was serving God. But I was actually serving myself and I felt something was off about that.”

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Through his personal journey of growing deeper in God, along with his cell leaders’ mentorship and community support, Teck Kuan eventually came to see that God is not interested in how well he could play — God was looking at his heart.

I was telling myself that my perfect playing was serving God. But I was actually serving myself.

“And at that point in time, my heart wasn’t right. It took me quite a while to really rethink and realign with God’s Word,” he confessed. 

“Since then, it’s been a daily transformation for me to really focus on my heart. I’m nowhere near a perfect state because I don’t think we will ever reach a perfect state. But it’s a constant practice to remind myself that what I do is for God.” 

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“I think it’s important to acknowledge that we are all servants of God, you know, we are all serving the same God,” concluded Teck Kuan. 

“With TPR, we really want to create a bigger community for worship ministry members to also expand their worldview so that it’s not just limited to their own church, but also to see what other churches are doing.”

Teck Kuan’s dream is for worshippers to be able to look at what other churches are doing, receive help and maybe even incorporate some of these better practices into their own worship teams so that everyone improves.

“Being able to pick up things from others’ sharing that they can feel encouraged and supported by, as well as being able to bring back something they can share with their worship teams — that’s the whole idea of what TPR is about.”

If The Praise Revival has got your soul stirred up, you can follow them the latest on Facebook or Instagram . If you wanna answer one of their seasonal questions and encourage other worshippers, you can submit your own video responses to their latest question at: [email protected]