student organist

Madeleine Weaver played one of the preludes on the organ Sunday morning. She did a beautiful job of playing Beethoven's "Joyful, joyful we adore Thee" from her piano book. A big thanks to her. Here's a photo of her getting ready several days before, during the C2P music camp session on keyboard to pipe organ.

music camp

Well, it's a week-long day-school called Created2Praise. I have a 45-minute class called "keyboard to organ." The students all play piano and get a thrill out of transferring their skills to a larger instrument. Here's the real exceptional bunch of kids:

high school musicians

Know any of these young musicians? Some of the youth at Zion would. About half of these students are C Dock and half are Lancaster Mennonite. The ocassion is the annual festival of Mennonite high school instrumentalists. This year, yesterday, it was held in Lancaster and Dorcas and I went. Part of being a church musician is tracking the young musicians of a church and encouraging them or at least caring about what is going on. What is going on is some really high level of music.