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Music Ministry

 


 

 

 

Cindy Berger is our Organist and Chancel Choir Director. Cindy will be sharing her musical gifts with us at the 8:15 service.

Chancel Choir:  (Sings at the 8:15 a.m. Service)

The Chancel Choir is Looking for Singers to help with the following: the Thanksgiving Eve Service Special Music Presentation, Christmas Eve Special Music , and Cantors to help lead the 8:15 Worship on special Sundays.  Please see me after the 8:15 service, or just come to the Chancel Choir practices on Mondays at 7:00 p.m. if you would like to participate in any or all!

The Chancel choir would like to do a Tenebrae service on Good Friday, April 22, 2011.  The Tenebrae “Once Upon a Tree” by Pepper Choplin as told by Luke

At the beginning of “Once Upon a Tree” “…Luke feels unworthy to set his pen to the story of the cross….this is a story of LIFE that leads us through the range of the human experience through the celebration of the triumphal entry.  The struggle of Gethsemane, the tenderness of a Mother’s grief, the anger in the face of injustice.”

Come join us on Monday evening at 7pm in Zick hall to learn the music for this very powerful Tenebrae.  Please see Cindy Berger if you are interested in being a narrator.  The first rehearsal for the Tenebrae will be February 7, 2011.

 


Children's Choir
Kim Ryan - Director - (410)360-5586

(We will resume practice again in September)

Our Children's Choir practices each Thursday evening at 6:30 PM in the sanctuary. Please bring your child to sing praise to the Lord. The Children's Choir sings at the 11:00 service once or twice a month.

Children's choir practice is over by 7:30 PM.


Glory and Praise Singers and Musicians
Dan Foss - Director - (410)760-5557

The Glory and Praise singers and musicians meet every Tuesday evening in the sanctuary.  Musicians meet at 6:30 PM and the singers meet at 6:45 PM.

This talented group assists in leading the 11:00 a.m. contemporary service as well as special services throughout the year.


SINGING  WITH THE LUTHERANS                                                  By Garrison  Keillor

I have made fun of Lutherans for years.  Who wouldn't, if you lived in Minnesota?  But I have also sung with Lutherans and that is one of the main joys of life, along with hot baths and fresh sweet corn. We make fun of Lutherans for their  blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed and also for their secret  fondness for macaroni and cheese. But nobody sings like them.

If you ask an audience in New York City, a  relatively Lutheran-less place, to sing along on the chorus of  "Michael Row the Boat Ashore", they will look daggers at you as if  you had asked them to strip to their underwear. But if you do this among Lutherans they'll smile and row that boat ashore and up on the beach! And down the road!

Lutherans  are bred from childhood to sing in four-part harmony. It's a talent that comes from sitting on the lap of someone singing alto or tenor or bass and hearing the harmonic intervals by putting your little head against that person's rib cage. It's natural for Lutherans to sing in harmony. We're too modest to be soloists, too worldly to sing in unison. When you're singing in the key of C and you slide into the A7th and D7th chords, all two hundred of you, it's an emotionally fulfilling moment.

I once sang the bass line of Children of the Heavenly Father in a room with about three thousand Lutherans in it; and when we finished, we all had tears in our eyes, partly from the promise that God will not forsake us, partly from the proximity of all those lovely voices. By our joining in harmony, we somehow promise that we will not forsake each other.

I do believe this: These Lutherans are the sort of people you could call up when you're in deep distress. If you’re dying, they'll comfort you.  If you're lonely, they'll talk to you. And if you're hungry, they'll give you tuna salad!

The following list was compiled by a 20th century Lutheran who, observing other Lutherans, wrote down exactly what he saw or heard.

1. Lutherans believe in prayer, but would practically die if asked to pray out loud.
2. Lutherans like to sing, except when confronted with a new hymn or a hymn with more than four stanzas.
3. Lutherans believe their pastors will visit them in the hospital, even if they don't notify them that they are there.
4. Lutherans usually follow the official liturgy and will feel it is their way of suffering for their sins.
5. Lutherans believe in miracles and even expect miracles, especially during their stewardship visitation programs or when passing the plate.
6. Lutherans feel that applauding for their children's choirs would make the kids too proud and conceited.
7.  Lutherans think that the Bible forbids them from crossing the aisle while passing the peace.
8.  Lutherans drink coffee as if it were the Third Sacrament.  9. Some Lutherans still believe that an ELCA bride and an LCMS groom make for a mixed marriage.
10.  Lutherans feel guilty for not staying to clean up after their own wedding reception in the Fellowship Hall.
11.   Lutherans are willing to pay up to one dollar for a meal at church.
12.  Lutherans think that Garrison Keller stories are totally factual.
13.  Lutherans still serve Jell-O in the proper liturgical color of the season and think that peas in a tuna noodle casserole add too much color.
14.  Lutherans believe that it is OK to poke fun at themselves and never take themselves too seriously.

And finally, you know you're a Lutheran when:

1. It's 100  degrees with 90% humidity and you still have coffee after the service;
2. You hear something really funny during the sermon and smile as loudly as you  can;
3. Donuts are a line item in the church budget -- just like coffee;
4. The communion cabinet is open to all, but the coffee cabinet is locked up tight;
5. When you watch a 'Star Wars' movie and they say, "May the Force be with you", you respond, "and also with you".
6. And lastly - it takes 15 minutes to say "Good-bye".

May you wake each day with His blessings, Sleep each night in His keeping, and always walk in His tender care.

(Submitted by Dan Foss)

Last updated 1/31/11


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