Profile About Sidney Mohede

Sidney Mohede:

"Talents and charisma can take you to the top, but only character can keep you there..."

On the Personal Background

Sidney Mohede was born in March 27th, 1973. The native born Indonesian, spent the rest of his teens life in Los Angeles, United States. It was not until he turned 22 and graduated from his major in fine arts that he decided to strive for the lost souls in Indonesia. He went back to Jakarta in 1995 and enrolled in a local theology school. His encounters with JPCC senior pastors, Ps. Jeffrey Rachmat and Ps. Jose Carol changed his life forever. He did not realize that during his first meetings; yet as both leaders strived for the excellence, their teachings brought Sidney to a whole new level of faith and Christianity. Along with other praise and worship members of the church, Sidney's life has grown abundantly in Christ and he has gone through series of the most breath-taking events with God. "The blessings in my life are things that are beyond my understanding. How they happened in my life, I can't really explain. Yet, I know things do not happen instantly. Each thing I did to serve Him best has delivered my promotion. He opened doors that no man could shut." He got married to flawless Etha Mohede on May 9th 2004 and blessed with two cuties, Ethan Mohede and Chelsea Faye Mohede. The youth pastor has been on stage with Delirious, Reuben Morgan, Joel Houston and Hillsong Church as well as contributed to a world charity event for a Tsunami Relief in Los Angeles. He released his first solo album Surrender couple years ago. Being sold for thousands of copies, the album was then revised and republished in 2005. At the moment, Sidney is completing the production of his second album Better Days.

On Oxygen

Sidney, is the leading youth pastor in his local church Jakarta Praise Community Church. The proud father of two is now a big daddy to around 300 youngsters united in this relevant community called Oxygen. "I always feel like having an enormous baby that keeps growing each day, and I am extremely thrilled to see the baby grows. I love my Oxygeners so much." His heart is immediately captured by the youth church as the youngsters show their immediate loyalty to the pastors by giving their all to serve the church. The praise and worship team, identified as True Worshippers Youth recently went on stage to produce their first gospel album entitled Breathe. It was Sidney and Jussar Badudu, his co-pastor in Oxygen that were the proudest creatures on earth who could not stop praising the team work of the Oxygen members who managed to demonstrate the presence of the Lord Most High to thousands of teens.

On the Band

Sidney is attached to a well known rock gospel band named Giving My Best. On April 27th, they celebrated their 10th anniversary by recording a live concert with 5000 spectators. The band is recently on tour to over 10 cities in Malaysia to promote their latest album The Best Is Yet to Come and is currently preparing itself to bless more nations and local churches.

Miscellaneous

Every Oxygener knows that Sidney is a movie and gadget freak. Sidney keeps his constant dates with his wife to see movies and he never misses a momentum as a new release of gadget catches up the industry. He listens to Switchfoot, Foo Fighters, Goo Goo Dolls, U2, Delirious, Sting, United, Gavin DeGraw, and Coldplay. He salutes Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Godfather Trilogy, and Sound of Music as his most favorite movies of all time. He is also such a huge fans of CMI, 24, and Friends.

Album dan lagu yang dinyanyikan Sidney Mohede:

• Surrender
  
• Badai - Sidney Mohede
  

Profile Giving My Best (GMB)

In 1996, a group of young musicians and singers gathered for a project tentatively called ‘Youth Ministry’. The project was to make a live recording concert for the youth of Indonesia. During that period, there were no youth ministry events happening in Indonesia and this group of young people felt the hunger and need to give their best to the Lord through their talents.

In April 1996, with the then ‘unknown’ worship leader, Sidney Mohede, Keyboardist Pongky Prasetyo, Joseph S. Djafar, Darana, bassist Rensis Wenas, drummer Amos Cahyadi, percussionist Adi Prasodjo, other top musicians and no less than 18 (!!) backing vocals (including Jeffry S. Tjandra, Viona Paays, Sammy Mandik and Farah Pattisalamauw who are some of the best worshippers in Indonesia) joined together for a historical live recording concert at the Red Top Hotel in Jakarta, entitled ‘Giving My Best’ (Kuberi Yang Terbaik). And as writers often said, “..and the rest is history...” Their first album become one of the best selling praise and worship album in Indonesia’s history.

Though they never had a name other than calling themselves ‘a youth ministry’ at the time, fans of the album began calling these group of young people ‘GMB’ or ‘Giving My Best’ (taken from the name of the album), an after a while the name stuck, and so GMB (Giving My Best) was born.

Over the years, what started as a young people’s music movement took a different direction as God began to filter the personnel of GMB. One by one, some of the original musicians began to pursue other ministries and become some of today’s top music producers and arrangers. Adi, Amos, Daniel, and Jeffry remained faithful to GMB’s vision and mission and began recruiting talented musicians such as Joseph S. Djafar (keyboards) and Bams (vocal).

In the last 12 years, their ministry and music have taken them to lead worshippers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States to worship God with passion and power. Just as the title of their album declare, truly “Nothing is Ever Impossible” through God who is living in GMB’s heart, music and ministry. The best is yet to come with the calling in their lives, so it’s time to stand out for the generation through GMB Community.