Melbourne Staff Band

Welcome to the website of the Melbourne Staff Band.

Music has touched every emotion known to human beings. It touches our sadness and celebrates our successes; soothes and inspires; it’s as old as history and as modern as tomorrow’s news. The Melbourne Staff Band has a repertoire of music that can touch the very being of a person; music that goes to the heart for it comes from the heart. This band is a group of Christian men and women who want not only their music to be excellent but they want to live excellently for God.

It is our desire to extend the Kingdom of God through the ministry of music and the spoken word. To do this effectively we are dependent upon the grace of God to constantly shape in us the image of Jesus Christ. No-one else has touched the world like Jesus. You can listen to our music and be moved by its sound but we want to do more; we want to influence the world and so we bring not merely a performance but a person – Jesus Christ.

I contend that a living relationship with Jesus Christ is the only way to appropriately develop a true reflection of Jesus. We can only reveal that which we know and so we strive to know Christ and to make Him known.

We pray that as you listen to the music of the Melbourne Staff Band that you will be stirred to discover more about the ministry of the band, The Salvation Army and above all the Lord Jesus Christ. He can take your life as He has ours and make it something new.

The grace of Jesus be with you.

Major Leonard Turner
Executive Officer

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February
Sunday 8 Band Spiritual/Welcome to Cadets
Saturday 14 Prelude to MSO Music Bowl
Saturday 28 Family Get-together

March
Sunday 15 Melbourne 614/RACV City Club/ Thornbury
Saturday 28 Gullidge Concert - Waverley Temple

Korea - Day 6

The final day had arrived on the MSB's inaugural visit to South Korea and if the breakfast dining room was any indication most guys were ready to see the red dust plains, summer rains and sunburnt land of the Great Southland we call Australia! As awesome of an experience this had been for everyone, staying in the same hotel every night and seeing the same sights out of the hotel window each morning and night and eating the same french toast with bacon and egg with a dash of maple syrup for breakfast had taken it's toll.

Today was check out of hotel day and an instrument free day and after finalising some room service bills and mini bar payments all were on the bus ready for the short one hour trip North towards the border that separates North and South Korea.

It was here we visited the Odusan Unification Observatory which is located just South of the DMZ (Demarcation Military Zone).
The Odusan Unification Observatory opened to the public in 1992 and it’s one of the national tourist spot where foreigners like to visit and experience the stark reality of the divided Peninsula. From this Observation Platform, Songaksan Diamond Mountains in the city of Gyeseongi and 63 Building in Seoul are visible. This Observatory has five floors above ground and one underground. Various photos and computerized screens showing the stark reality of North Korea are displayed on the first and second floor.

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