Sunday school not closed

Due to the delayed school opening in Souderton, we've got some children spending time now and then in the church office. So some of their toys get strewn about, such as these airplanes on the front counter. A lot of us in the Zion office have school-age children--Jenn, Scott, Hunter.

As a 4/7th non-resident of Souderton (I work here 3 days a week) I'm allowed to not take sides in the teacher/board negociations. Instead I can make observations.

--When you had children, who promised you there'd be a public school for them?

--What makes you think a few extra days at home wouldn't be good for your children?

--When your schedule is upset, what do your children see you do?

--You are your child's most effective teacher.

--Could Sunday schools see this as an opportunity to run 7 days a week?

--what is this compared to the Hurricane Ike and Katrina interruption of schedules?

Kara's coming!

Good news for Zion! I am very happy Zion has found a permanent staff person--Kara Glick. I look forward to working with her in a transition period of time. If I had a photo I'd put it up here. But that's all the information I have.

joy of the job

One unblemished joy of the job is getting new music. In this case, new anthems for the adult choir.

They look pretty. Smell good. And most of all they sound good.

Here's how you do it. You, hopefully, go to an anthem reading session, which is sponsored by several of the biggest publishers. A fellow church musician who faces the same congregational situtation you face has already winnowed out the titles which will not fit. Then the group of other church musicians sing through a stack of 50 or so titles. I mark down the ones I think Zion would appreciate.

Then I take them to the piano in the sanctuary and run through them myself. And I take the cream of the cream. Photo is the anthems which came in this week.

tracking down the singers

Or in this case, trucking them down.

Only days until choir starts up again. I always wanted to see our good bass singer, Floyd Landis, at his trucking business and I found him.

Old Red is his favorite truck. Okay, singers! You don't need a truck to get to choir. Wednesday night, 7 p.m. Starting Sept. 10.