Music Ministry
We have experienced Lent with our special dinners and services on Wednesday nights, the meaningful and poignant Palm Sunday service, the intensity of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services and the joyful, celebration of our Lord’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. On many of these occasions our choirs have added their dedicated efforts to enhance worship. For this effort your directors are most grateful and thank you.
But all of this does not mean that the choir season is over until next fall. The Bell Choir will lead worship again on April 27. The Chancel Choir is working hard on a short contemporary cantata (“Creation”) that will be presented on May 18. We would be happy to welcome anyone who might like to try singing in choir on a short term basis. We will begin each of our Wednesday night rehearsals by practicing the cantata from 7:30 - 8:00 p.m. This will allow anyone who wishes to sing with us to come for a short rehearsal and leave. If you have any interest at all, why don’t your try us? I can assure you that you will be warmly received.
The Worship and Music Committee was advised by Pastor John that a number of you requested an earlier worship service. Considering this, the committee has made the recommendation that beginning the first Sunday in June, worship will begin at 9:00 a.m. Summer and Day Light Savings time seem to make this a reasonable decision. Our hope is that this will encourage better attendance.
It was also decided that we will soon begin a new liturgical setting. Of the ten settings in our new hymnal only about three are familiar. There are advantages to learning a new setting. We really have to concentrate on what we are saying and singing rather than automatically plunging through the service. We will be happy for feedback as to which service is the most meaningful to you.
Thank you to all of you who are involved in music for our services. Music is an integral and important part of worship and it can’t happen unless there are those individuals who are willing to give of their time and talent for God’s glory and the enrichment of the entire congregation.
