outside music

Here's a news release from Karen Fretz, director of music at Stumptown. It's the first one in which I am described as organist at Neffsville. Hey, I'm feeling a little pride in that.

Community Hymn Sing at Stumptown Mennonite Church will take place on August 30 at 7 p.m. Featured music: Singing Men of Praise with approximately 30 singers. Guest songleaders from the men's chorus will be Glenn Lehman, director of Harmonies Workshop and organist at Neffsville Mennonite and Elvin Boll of Elizabethtown Mennonite. The offering will benefit The Potter's House, a Christian rehabilitation ministry providing transitional housing for men re-entering society after prison incarceration.

I like that they call the event a "community" hymn sing. That's reaching out and missional. Although the chorus was begun some 30 years ago, I only directed it for two years about the year 1997. It has not been together (except for this reunion) for some ten years.

10 men can sing

Yesterday 10 men sang two men's chorus pieces in the worship service--"Great is thy faithfulness" and "Wayfarin' stranger."

Wow! Ask someone if you didn't hear it. I was so pleased with their musicianship and dedication to God.

Thanks to Nancy, too, at the piano. And thanks to the people who said thanks after the service.