S t i l l w a t e r - July 2003 News Page 1

July 3, 2003
- Email from Jemar Mangali, Stillwater Band Member

Hi Guys,

Only 2 weeks to go, let's practice and pray for the best. Here's our sequencing for July 20 if anyone has some suggestion feel free to e-mail.

1. Because I Found You, 2. Statement, 3. Glory, 4. Master Builder, 5. A Psalm, 6. Fortress, 7. Follow, 8. Flesh, 9. Redeemed,

I hope all of us are getting to memorize or have memorized all the stuff already, see you all soon, God Bless.

In Christ,

Jemar

July 8, 2003
- Email from Jemar Mangali, Stillwater Band Member

Hi Guys,

Here's the new line-up of Redeemed for the Anniversary

1. Becauce I Found You, 2. Statement, 3. Redeemed, 4. Glory, 5. Master Builder, 6. A Psalm, 7. Fortress, 8. Follow, 9. Flesh

Please take time to memorize our line-up, the lyrics and the chords, kuya vince do you know where the reception is? Kuya Joey iaatach ko na lang ang pic ko sa e-mail na ito na hinihingi niyo po, see you all soon, God Bless.

In Christ,

Jemar

July 20, 2003
- First performance of Stillwater

Word International Ministries Anniversary with Ray-An Fuentes as its Guest Speaker. The celebration was held at the Westin Hotel in Princeton, New Jersey. Right after the service, the REDEEMED band performed 8 songs. All original compositions. While performing, we noticed Ray-an Fuentes on the far right front row listening and reading the lyrics on the projection screen. After the perfomance, the Bas Family talked to Vinia, about a possible gig on August 2 in South River, NJ. Praise God!!!

July 22, 2003
- Email from Vince Pascual, Stillwater Band Member

Brothers, how are you all? I am very excited because I got the chance to sit down with Ray An Fuentes and discuss with him what we need to improve ourselves. Yetski, Rene and Jemar were also there.

He gave us many good suggestions and advices as what we need to do to write really good songs so we can "hook" our audience the second they hear a song. But we have to start from square one again. But that's ok because all we need to do is change a few things.

Rene suggested we have some kind of workshop. Jemar and I discussed about rearranging most of our songs. Those of you who are interested please let us know. Imagine, someone who is a real professional was giving us free advice! We should take this opportunity!

I, for one, would like to continue this band and get more exposure...all of you who are in favor, please say so.

By the way, we have a gig on August 2, Saturday. Does everyone agree on this? We will talk about this more later on Wednesday.

God bless you all. - Vince.

July 22, 2003
- Email from Jemar Mangali, Stillwater Band Member

Hi Guys,
Last night was very refreshing, we talked with Ray-an Fuentes and we really learned a lot from him, how i wish na dala ko yung folder ng mga kanta natin because he is a very lyrical person, he says you can compose two ways, by putting the melody first or the lyrics first, but it is easier if you put the melody first, he did not say it was better to put the melody first but it was easier, he gave us advice on some of our songs, He liked Redeemed but ok sana kaso we made a mistake sa coda at mas mabuti pa daw na either iksian yung coda or tanggalin kasi yung chorus na may voicing ng IN YOU ay na- reretain talaga sa memory ng mga tao, dapat daw we should emphasize the part na maaalala ng tao, too much melody makes it harder to remember at mawawala ang "HOOK" natin, which is very important.

It was really a nice experience talking to him and we learned a lot from him, one thing he also said was that the Title must have a "hook" with the song, so i am changing REDEEMED to IN YOU, i thought before that as long as the theme is expressed in the song it doesn't matter if the Title isn't mentioned in the song as long as it is in raltion to the theme, he corrected me about that and told me that it adds to the "Hook" of the song and the memory retention for the people who listen. He also explained the basic verse and chorus structure of a song that must be followed, sa GLORY kasi ibang yung structure natin but i think its still a nice song.

I think it was helpful that we had our songs in the projector kasi nakita ko si Ray-an tinitingnan talaga yung lyrics, the problem we had is yung kainan ay nasa right side natin at yung projector nasa left at di na nila nakita yung lyrics, plus di daw masyado rinig yung voice sa malayo, but its ok kasi di naman natin alam saan pupwesto yung mga tao kaya di natin napwesto yung projector.

I am really excited cause i know God has a plan for us, all this things we do are for His glory and praise, continue to pray for our band and let us have "meetings" to discuss things, what i mean about meeting is not the talk that we have before we practice but to sit down and talk and have suggestions and maybe eat at the same time hehehe to discuss things.

Maybe we can do some special numbers in future sunday services kahit isang song lang, maybe we can collaborate with ate chona's choir, i am really excited, sa dedication ni Gabriel sa sunday we can dedicate the song FOLLOW for him, "that he might follow and obey God as he grows up" actually di na lang nga nasama ni Ate Malou yung mga bible verse sa projector kung saan galing yung ibang songs kasi wala ng time, maybe we can start some songs by reading the verse where we got the inspiration to write it, parang praise and worship exhortation before we go to the song.

I hope to see you all this Wed., thanks for your dedication to what God has planted in our hearts, let us continue to pray for our band and to one another, God Bless you all.

In Christ,
Jemar

July 22, 2003
- Email from Rene Aguinaldo, Stillwater band Member

Guys,

Here's some info about our next gig:

Dedication of Baby Gabriel and Despedida for Gina Bas' Family
Saturday, August 2, 10:30am to 3:30pm
Belarusian-American Center
284 Whitehead Ave., South River, NJ

So far, there'll be 94 guests planning to attend. It will be a great opportunity for us to minister to these people through our music.

God bless,
-Rene

July 24, 2003
- Email from Gina Pagunuran

First of all, thank you for agreeing to sing at the celebration of my son's dedication. I just wanted to know what time you were planning on being there. The dedication ceremony would start at 11:00am. If you would be there by then and have set up your equipment, we would not need to bring a microphone for Pastor Mando to use during the ceremony. But if you would be coming after the ceremony, then we'd have to provide our own microphone and corresponding equipment. No problem, really, just wanted to know if we should plan on bringing them or not (as we are quickly running out of space in the car), so please let us know. We'd also like to know how many are coming so we could include the count for food preparation.

Also, I understand that the songs that you were singing last Sunday during the snack/lunchtime were your own composition and we're looking forward to
listening to them again but I was hoping we could begin your repertoire with some praise songs (the kind that you normally sing at Sunday worship
services), to kind of start with familiar ground.

Thanks again, and I'm hoping to hear from you soon.

July 24, 2003
- Email from Vince Pascual, Stillwater band member

Guys, Boyet cannot make it on Saturday, we all understand because of Mildred's due date is very soon. Joey cannot make it either.
But Vinia has a friend who may be willing to play keyboard for us on maybe just 4 songs. Rene, you will have to lead. Do not worry, I saw our video and you are definitely a natural on stage. There is no need for a backup singer. Kuya Frank, when is a good time to have band practice? I am thinking next week on a Friday, just a quick run. This week, Regina is working and I have to be with the kids.
Please let us know. God bless.

July 24, 2003
- Email from Jemar Mangali, Stillwater band member

Kahit wala ng keyboards ok lang, kahit guitars na lang tayo it will do, except sa FORTRESS only one guitar will do the solo. Talagang natural si Kuya Rene, i remember yung easter 2002 Video, makikita mo na talagang natural performer siya.
Ok sa akin ang Friday ng Aug. 1 to practice pero around night time.

July 25, 2003
- Email from Frank dela Cruz, Stillwater band member

Regarding the gig on Aug. 2, who will take care of the speakers. I know Boyet G. has the main speakers but he is not going and what about the monitor speakers who has that. We need both speakers to sound decent. Do you think it's worth the effort even if we're not complete and we're only doing few songs.
We can do the practice on Friday next week after the P&W. Who actually said yes to the gig? Next time all of us should agree and talk about it first before making any decision. It's much better if we can all be there. It's not the same if two of our members are missing. Do you agree? But since most of you agreed already it is also not nice to back out.

July 25, 2003
- Email from Rene Aguinaldo, Stillwater band member

Kuya Frank,
We can still back out. I think none of us made a firm commitment to this. Hindi ko alam kung anong napag-usapan nila Ate Vinia and Gina. Nagpadala na lang sa amin si Gina ng e-mail asking about our plan for this gig so I forwarded it to all of you and asked your opinion so I can relay it to Gina. I think, we should talk about it and make our final decision so I can respond to Gina.

Thanks,
Rene