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Cindy Berger is our Organist and Chancel Choir Director. Cindy will be sharing her musical gifts with us at the 8:15 service.
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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.
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Children's Choir (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.
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Glory
and Praise Singers and Musicians |
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.
Last updated 1/31/11