Children’s Choir Camp is a week long day camp which features singing, dancing, and speaking the lines of a musical that is performed twice as a part of worship. Games, craft projects and costuming round out the fun! That, in a nutshell, is the musical event that took place in August. Twenty children from Kindergarten [...]
An opportunity for children of our church to participate in a short musical will take place during the first week of August (AUGUST 2-6), when we will have our annual choir camp. Register at the church, or download this form now. At this week-long camp we will work on the musical “Moses and the Freedom [...]
Most of the time, when we think of Jesus and Good Friday, we have the image of him hanging on the cross between the two “thieves”. We might know and love to sing hymns like “The Old Rugged Cross” or “In the Cross of Christ I Glory.” Many people over the years have commented to [...]
“It Is Finished”. With those words we will begin our time of worship on Good Friday evening. From the death of Jesus on the cross, we move to the time when he was removed from the cross and placed in the tomb. Specially chosen anthems and solos will be interspersed with readings and liturgical responsive [...]
During Holy Week, 2010, there will be two special musical events that will deepen your Lenten journey towards Easter. The First will take place as part of Sunday morning worship on Palm Sunday and will involve our Children’s Choir. The processional hymn that we sing annually, “All Glory, Laud, and Honor” was written by a [...]
First…a BIG thank you to all who sang, and played this past Christmas season! We have so much talent in this congregation, and we only touched the “tip of the iceberg” in December (no cold weather pun intended!). Next…It is the start of another new year, and new opportunities, new challenges, new growth…even in the [...]
As we once again get closer to Christmas Eve, our thoughts are on the stable and the infant Christ (as well as all of the celebrations and decorations of the season). One thing that many overlook or think of briefly is the visit of the Angel to Mary to tell her of how she was [...]
Mary, the Mother of Jesus…and the Angel Gabriel who visited her, will be the theme of our Cantata Sunday, on December 13th , at two worship services. Martin Luther wrote in his sermon on Christmas, 1531: “(She is the) highest woman and the noblest gem in Christianity after Christ…She is nobility, wisdom, and holiness personified. [...]
“We live in a music-saturated culture…Yet sometimes music seems so pervasive that we fail to notice how very important music is in giving expression to human life and shaping how each person and community will live. It has become easy to forget that music deepens and makes more vivid the beauty, the delight, and yes, [...]