The Program That Happened: Christmas Carol 2020
As we said before, “Whether to celebrate Christmas was never a question for us.” This year, we walked away from the dress rehearsal still praying that we could celebrate with Majesty Music’s Christmas Carol. With poor health all around, would seven people actually get to come portray the Bailey family, Jamie, and Mrs. Johnson?
After the rehearsal, two readers stepped in to help. And as far as we can tell, the story came through—that God loves every human being and sent His Son to give them a chance to be part of His family.
One of those readers who stepped in, Zach Daab, had been helping direct the play during rehearsals.
Zach Daab and Kimberly Young as John and Carol Bailey, Christmas Carol, December 13, 2020
Calling the drama “a simple, yet powerful story about family and Christ’s love,” Zach said, “I feel honored to have been a part of it.”
Zach’s fellow director Corretta Grass has directed programs during health crises before. “It is always exciting to see how God orchestrates things in our lives!” she said.
He allowed people to move in and out of place gracefully and quickly and the music was such a blessing as well as the drama. I had seen it many times and knew it well, but tears were streaming down my face as the message of the drama and the beautiful music spoke to my heart!
-Corretta Grass, drama director
One person had even more work to do than Zach did, but she did get a few more hours’ notice. Jillian Webb had auditioned for the role of Jamie, and Saturday she got the opportunity to read it after all.
Jamie is hardly excited about staying with the Baileys.
And from children’s solos to our church choir and orchestra, musicians of all ages joined to help present the program’s message through song, including a great addition, “Christ Has Come for All.’
More pics coming soon!
We praise the Lord for allowing this program to happen. We’d love to hear how the Lord used this in your life in the comments below or at feedback@morningside.org.
Morningside Kids Christmas Recital (12/20)
Sign up here for our annual Children’s Christmas Recital.
Each year we have a special Christmas service featuring our children playing Christmas numbers at the piano or on other instruments. It’s always a sweet time of fellowship encouraging and benefiting from the skills of our youngest musicians.
This year’s service is Sunday, December 20 at 11:00 AM. If your child(ren) would like to participate, please sign up online by Sunday, Dec 13. Children through the 8th grade are invited to play one special. Please be prepared to give the piece's title, instrument, and the length of the special. Print signup is also available at the Welcome Center. Contact Pastor Jones with any questions.
Thanks to all who have signed up!
Christmas Carol 12/13
Children, teens, and adults combine to tell the story of the gospel’s work in the life of an orphan girl.
James and Carol Bailey
invite an orphan named Jamie
to join their family’s Christmas.
What Jamie finds
will change her
forever.
It seems like hardly anything has stayed the same for a whole year. But whether to celebrate Christmas was never a question for us. Last year’s Christmas program, Gloria in Excelsis, involved singing in Spanish and English from kids on up. This year will all be in English, but once again our children, teens, and adults will combine forces.
At the heart of the program is the story of an orphan girl named Jamie. When a Christian family invites her to join them for Christmas, the light of the gospel finally begins to dawn in her heart. And the Bailey family finds the process will demand more from them than sacrificing some space.
We hope you can join us at 10 AM December 13.
The Middle School Ensemble joined the Children’s Choir to sing “Go Tell” in Gloria in Excelsis, December 15, 2019.
Worthy: 11/22 Praise Service
Every year, the United States of America formally recognizes the need to give thanks. This year, it’s November 26. (Every day should be Thanksgiving Day, right?)
This year, Morningside is also setting aside our November 22 service for formally recognizing something else that shouldn’t need formal recognition:
Our God deserves our praise.
Maybe we shouldn’t have to set aside times for formally recognizing that. But as often as we forget to praise God, maybe setting aside time just to praise Him might not be a bad idea either.
Like setting aside a day for thanksgiving.
Plans for our praise service include:
Readings from Revelation 5
“In Christ Alone” from our choir and orchestra
“How Great His Love”
“Is He Worthy?”
Morningside Baptist Church choir and orchestra lead the congregation in “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” November 8, 2020.
Several musicians and readers plan to help lead us before their holiday travels begin. We hope to see you there.
Music for a COVID-19 Communion
Morningside Choir and Orchestra presents “You Are the Christ” (Andy Gleiser and Reba Snyder Miller, 2013), October 11, 2020.
Last Sunday, "You Are the Christ" opened our 10 AM service with a more intimate mood than usual. But the 9 AM service began in a rousing fashion as the Morningside Singers presented "O Worship the King."
This week we celebrate Communion for the first time in many months.
Morningside Singers
Morningside Singers meet at 8:45 in the chapel.
This Week: "Holy, Holy, Holy"
Rehearsal: 11:00-11:45 AM, Choir Room
Date pending: "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" (Koerts)
Choir & Orchestra
Meet at 9:00 in the auditorium.
This week we present "Holy Is He"/"Holy, Holy, Holy" to open the 10:00 service.
We'll also rehearse upcoming music:
10/25: Nothing Ever Can, Nothing Ever Will (Thin Blue Line Sunday, full orchestra)
11/1: In God We Trust, in God Alone (new for orchestra)
Christmas Program, 12/13: "Christ Has Come for All"
Children's Choir
Biweekly Rehearsal: 11:00-11:45 AM, South Wing
Next Ministry: 11/15 AM, "Jesus Strong and Kind"
Programs
10/25: Thin Blue Line Sunday
11/1: Civil Leaders Sunday
11/22: Praise Service
12/13: Combined Christmas Program
Sunday, 12/13, 10:00 AM
Copy + Paste
LAST WEEK WAS GREAT... WE STILL NEED YOU!
This week's schedule is nearly identical to last week! We add only one thing: 8:45 chapel warmup for the Morningside Singers who practiced last week at 11 AM.
CHOIR & ORCHESTRA: 9 AM ("Only a Sinner")
MORNINGSIDE SINGERS: 8:45 WARMUP ("Crown Him"), 11 AM PRACTICE
BOTH SINGING EACH SUNDAY
“We Will Follow” (Chris Anderson and Greg Habegger, arr. James Koerts), Morningside Choir & Orchestra, Sept. 20, 2020.
40 joined us for choir and orchestra last Sunday. Then another 20 rehearsed with our newly named Morningside Singers for next week's 9 AM service.
Choir & Orchestra
Choir & orchestra (9 AM rehearsal, 10 AM weekly ministry) continues for all this Sunday, 9/27. We'll distance as much as possible, and please consider your health risk when deciding whether to come.
Weekly Ministry: 10 AM Service (Schedule)
Weekly Rehearsal: 9:00-9:45 AM (9/27: Choir Room combined rehearsal)
This Week
"Only a Sinner" (full orch.)
New song: A38, "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say"
Next Week: "No Other Name" (video)
Morningside Singers
Weekly Ministry: 9 AM Service
This Week:
"Crown Him…" (Living Hymns #13, VV 1, 3, 5)
8:45 warmup (chapel) with hymnal
Weekly Rehearsal: 11:00-11:45 AM, Choir Room
Next Week: "Nothing But the Blood"
Children's Choir
Biweekly Rehearsal starts 9/27! (11:00-11:45 AM, South Wing)
Next Ministry: 11/15 AM
Contact Elain Goslar for more information
Parents and Students
We plan to start assisting with child supervision and transportation next week, October 4.
Bring Them In
If you would like to join our music ministry, please come to the choir room at 9 AM for choir/orchestra. or 11 AM for the Morningside Singers. We are open to all singers high school and above and would love to speak with instrumentalists as well.
Did You See These?
Last week's music devotion: "Love as I Loved"
This week's music devotion: "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say"
All Hands on Deck
MBC CHOIR & ORCHESTRA
WELCOMES YOU BACK
WE NEED YOU THIS SUNDAY!
Over the last few months we have adapted to COVID-19 and to multiple schedule changes. Thank you very much for your flexibility. Now it's time to get back to some regular music ministry.
On Sunday mornings we want choir and orchestra members involved in 1 worship service, 1 small group and our music ministry. Please choose your schedule to make that possible.
10 AM Choir & Orchestra
Resume @ full capacity this Sunday, 9/20
Weekly Rehearsal 9:00-9:45 AM Begins
Open to all high school and above
The choir and orchestra start this Sunday singing “We Will Follow.”
Meet at 9 AM in the Choir Room - choir/orchestra combined rehearsal
10 AM weekly ministry plans
Return during invitation to help lead congregational singing at the end of every service
9 AM Service Attendees
You will be receiving a separate message tonight. If you don't receive one, please contact me.
Orchestra, Parents, and Students
We are working to resume split rehearsal, choir nursery, and transportation assistance very soon.
We want to have you back with us this Sunday at 9 AM.
If you know someone who wants to join the choir/orchestra, please bring them to the choir room with you at 9 AM.
Hope to see you this Sunday at 9!
We know that not everyone will be able to attend, and we urge those with high risks of complications from COVID-19 not to participate. Our singers will continue to distance from each other as much as possible.
The Wheels on the Bus
More “Large Ensembles,” Outdoor Song Services, Open Choir, Singing and Making Melody
Updated August 26, 2020
The wheels on the bus go round and round…
This week our bus wheels started going round again. We enjoyed having many students on our campus—did we see you?
As our attendance rises a bit, we’re adjusting our schedule (not for the first time:-) to help us continue maintaining some physical distance while we continue worshiping in person.
But as schedule changes and physical distancing continue—and what else could be more normal this year?—we also want to continue the momentum we’ve gained filling the loft almost to its (distanced) capacity. We had a great response last week and had an even larger group this week, made possible by several nuclear family units serving together.
Over 30 musicians joined together August 23 to remind us of our great salvation: And can it be that I should gain/An int’rest in the Saviour’s blood?
Would you like to join over the next couple of weeks? We should be able to work you in.
Weather permitting, we’ll have outdoor song services on August 26 and September 2. Bring your own seating, and come ready to praise the Lord with us!
And like we did in May, we will meet the next two Wednesdays, weather permitting, for outdoor song services. (In case of rain, we’ll livestream the services instead.) And like we did in July, we’ll plan an outdoor choir for the second one. Come join us outside the gym after the 10:30 service this week or next to get ready—no registration required! Masks encouraged, and distancing required.
Just About Full
It’s still nothing like our full choir loft of just a few months ago. But on August 16, we got to listen to 23 singers present “All I Have Is Christ.” Placing everyone presented a good challenge.
Next week we plan to present the choir’s beloved arrangement of Charles Wesley’s great hymn “And Can It Be?” We hope to have a group of similar size. A few spots are left. Would you like to join us?
While it’s great to see the involvement grow, we still have to exclude most of our choir and orchestra members each week. So after the morning services on August 23rd and 30th, we plan to practice “Our God Is Mighty” in preparation for a 9/2 outdoor song service like the ones we had this spring. We’d love to see you there!
To allow social distancing for 23 singers during “All I Have Is Christ” on August 16, we used the platform and steps.
Sign Up and Sing
Last week: “Filling the Loft Again”
Join the OPEN CHOIR
We’ve had a few open choir sessions before (see 2019), but you could say it’s a little different right now…
Still, we would love to have you join us—at several feet of distance, of course! Just sign up below and we’ll send you more info right away.
JOIN THE CHOIR
This fall will look very different from most years, but we still welcome new “regular” members in all sections and for all ability levels. Child care and transportation assistance are available. For more information or to get involved, please begin the process now or contact our music pastor Todd Jones.
Filling the Loft Again
UPDATED: August 12
Over a dozen singers lead the congregation in “The Perfect Wisdom of Our God,” August 9, 2020.
11 singers in 8 family groups spread throughout the Morningside choir loft on August 2, 2020 to sing “What a Day That Will Be.”
It was overwhelming to have the choir loft so full last week.
Yes, the 11 singers we had August 2 was by far the largest choral group we've had in the auditorium in months! We sang outdoors in July, but our full choir and orchestra haven’t been together since presenting “Psalm 23: A Psalm of Hope” March 15.
When we first came back in person on May 17, the humming and signing was nothing like singing. And in many ways, this is still nothing like a choir. But we pray that the Lord continues to grant us safety, and we look forward to involving many more from our church family in the weeks to come.
In God We Trust, in God Alone
We hadn’t sung as a choir in months. March 15 was a long time ago in so many ways.
But at our July 8 ice cream social, we got to sing—not only for those would have come to hear us in the auditorium, but also those who attend our Spanish services and even many from a sister church.
There were a few dozen of us. Certainly we missed many of our regular members whose health or schedule didn’t allow them to participate, but how sweet it was to make music together again! We weren’t quite “kids from one to ninety-two,” but we were actually close! We enjoyed getting to have several fellow church members join us for the occasion too.
And what a song for a multicultural, multigenerational, multi-church event: “In God We Trust, in God Alone.” Every human will one day fall, but the One who sits on heaven’s throne certainly deserves our trust.
Thanks to Jennifer Davisson and Jonathan E Harper for great photos!
Open Air Choir
During this year’s social distancing, one of the biggest losses for me personally has been the loss of our church choir. Several large-group singing events this year have resulted in multiple deaths each (see more), and even our social distancing measures (see here) are far from sufficient to make us comfortable filling the choir loft once again with passionate singers—many of us super-spreaders.
But just as the congregation got to start singing outside (read) before we began singing in our June 7 service, we have a chance to sing outside as a choir, and we’d love for you to join us.
Wednesday, July 8 our midweek service will be an ice cream social. We had one last year and had a great time. This year will be a lot different in an attempt to stop the spread—and weather permitting we’ll be outside.
Enter the choir.
June 28 and July 5 we’ll practice outside after our morning service. Many of our choir members aren’t ready to return yet, so if you’d like to join us we’ll have plenty of music for you too. We’ll sing “In God We Trust, In God Alone” written by our own Adam & Megan Morgan. Meet us behind the gym a few minutes after the service ends. We’d love to see you!
Todd Jones
Music Pastor
More Mixed Emotions: Singing and COVID-19
As you may have heard already, we plan to resume congregational singing in the 10:30 service this Sunday, June 7.
We are very thankful that our state and even county seem to have been spared the much higher infection rates of many other areas, and we feel it's best to allow one of the most important parts of worship to begin again.
Congregational singing always involves a certain amount of risk, and COVID-19 may have made it riskier than it’s ever been. Here are some of our precautions and recommendations.
We will be encouraging cloth face coverings during singing times especially.
We do not plan to sing nearly as long as we otherwise might.
Though it breaks our hearts, we do not plan to resume the full choir's ministry yet. We are making plans to add more vocal music as soon as safely possible.
We will have the singing after the morning sermon, and we plan to allow anyone who wishes to do so to exit privately just beforehand.
We also want to encourage anyone uncomfortable with attending the 10:30 auditorium service to consider joining the 9:15 session in the chapel that will also start on June 7.
Chapel
Stained glass windows in the Morningside Baptist Church chapel, west side. The chapel was completed in May 1988 and served as Morningside’s main auditorium for over a decade. In addition to its function as venue for weddings, funerals, and other special events, the chapel is also home to Morningside’s Spanish-language ministry, Iglesia Bautista Nuevo Amanecer.
The two classes meeting in the chapel will have plenty of room for many extra attendees. And their environment will have a much lower risk than the auditorium service. We plan to include some elements like special music that will help attendees appreciate the events as church services, even while giving the teachers room to build fellowship and discipleship among their combined classes.
Singing and COVID-19
The science of COVID-19 transmission is not quite exact, but authoritative witness to the risk of transmission during singing is very easy to find. That leads us to treat the act of communal singing as a wisdom issue, not only with precautions but also with deference. In the spirit of Romans 15:1, we who believe that singing may resume want to bear with anyone whose conscience doesn't allow participation.
Sunday morning worship Opportunities as of june 7
Last Sunday, our auditorium filled to just over 30% capacity. A few days before our first in-person service, restaurants began operating at 50% capacity. We actually have five options for different levels of risk tolerance:
High: Come to 10:30 service and stay for singing
Medium High: Come to the 10:30 auditorium and exit (to overflow or offsite) before singing begins
Medium: Come to a 10:30 overflow room
Medium Low: Come to the 9:15 session only
Low: Watch online
As far as we know, our first three Sundays of in-person services have not resulted in any COVID-19 cases. We pray that our church family, especially anyone at high risk, will continue in safety from this sometimes deadly virus.
We also pray that each week, more and more of our church family will feel the liberty to enjoy corporate gathering—and that Levels 2-4 can help those for whom Level 1 seems very daunting.
We hope you can join us this Sunday.
Sunday morning worship service options at Morningside as of June 7, 2020, sorted from highest to lowest by level of risk.
We Sang
Last night around 60 of us gathered near the tree for our first time of singing together in person for over two months. After early afternoon showers, our weather cleared and gave us a breezy comfortable time. We sang a mixture of classic and modern hymns, all of them requested in recent weeks by you, our church family.
Many of you joined us online as well. What a sweet time it was!
Pastor Crockett broadcasts live video of “Sing to the Lord,” our May 27 outdoor song service.
MBC church family and guests at “Sing to the Lord,” our May 27 outdoor song service.
Pastor Jones leads congregational singing during “Sing to the Lord,” our May 27 outdoor song service.
Pastor Crockett broadcasts live video of “Sing to the Lord,” our May 27 outdoor song service.
Thanks to many who made it possible:
Rich Streeter and Mitch Summerlin, technical setup
Jeanette Miller (piano) and John Cofer (tuba), instrumental support
Chris Williams, logistics
Pastor Crockett, livestream (and secondary solo:-)
What we sang on May 27, 2020, our first churchwide in-person song service since March 15: “Victory in Jesus,” “His Robes for Mine,” “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” “Bow the Knee,” “Blessed Assurance,” “Before the Throne of God Above,” and “It Is Well with My Soul.”
We’re prayerfully considering having another song service next Wednesday, June 3.
Sing to the Lord (5/27)
Sing to the Lord
Outdoor Song Service
Wednesday, May 27 7:00 PM
Morningside Baptist Church
Weather permitting
Bring seating if desired
Updated May 27, 4:30 PM
Tonight at 7:00 we sing together again. If the weather doesn’t worsen, we’re doing it outdoors.
We’ll do our best to make sure everyone keeps a wide physical distance. We encourage you to wear a mask, especially when gathering and dispersing. We won’t use printed lyrics either.
But while the teens continue their Wednesday group meeting, this will be our first opportunity to sing together as a church family since March 15. In case of inclement weather, you can still join us online—just like “old times” (in other words, May 10). If your schedule permits, we hope you can sing along.
We also look forward to singing together in person again soon! Listen for an announcement in tonight's service about how we'll start incorporating congregational singing on Sundays. Thanks to several medical professionals in our church family for their assistance in helping us make plans as safe as possible.
We hope to see you tonight!
Mixed Emotions
This Sunday many of us returned to church after our longest time away since . . . ever.
Along with just a handful of others, I had gotten to come every Sunday. Although this week was totally different from those weeks, it also felt very much the same—
mixed emotions.
It was so overwhelmingly great to see everyone.
It was so heartbreaking to go through the service without singing together.
Singing together—as a congregation—is the best way to fulfill the command in Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16. Nowhere does the Bible ever command us to listen to others sing, though we certainly enjoy doing so. Those two passages, though, do command us to sing. (For more on this topic, see “Five Balances in Our Church’s Music.”)
And yet not singing was the best way we could take care of the health of our church family and guests.
As our online services progressed, we began paring down the amount of live singing even further than we had at first. Sometimes I was the only singer.
This week, even though there were over 100 people in the 9:15 high-risk service and over 200 in the low-risk one, we kept it that way.
Some churches have already had to re-close after re-opening, and group singing has proven to be one of the fastest ways to spread COVID-19. Multiple group singing events (including choir practices and concerts in Washington and Amsterdam) have resulted in the majority of attendees contracting the coronavirus and multiple deaths each.
So we considered our options. Some chose to stay home and continue singing, and I certainly respect that. Others chose to meditate silently or mouth the words while the instrumentalists played. Others hummed along, and that enabled us to share some of the joy of making music together without spreading contagious particles or aerosols.
In the 10:30 service, we also got some help from Doug Young, the teacher for our deaf class.
Doug started the service by teaching us how to sign the chorus of “Trust and Obey."
Doug Young teaching the sign for “trust” in ASL on May 17, 2020.
That really took away a lot of the awkwardness for me. And it was great to see many join along in person and hear about others joining in online. Doug signed for all the songs and taught us several signs along the way.
At the end, my heart was still full. ODBM assistant director Paul Fields called it
triumph with a tear.
With Paul, choir members I’ve spoken to, and others, I too long for the day we can join our voices together around the throne--with no more death or sickness to restrain us. And before then, I long for ways to resume singing as soon as it is safely possible. We're considering singing together online and/or outside at some point soon. In the meantime, we can all work on our congregational signing!
Todd Jones
Music Pastor
Music for a Virtual Church
(In case you haven’t heard, the COVID-19 pandemic has started to affect our plans...)
I’m thankful for our video volunteers under Rich Streeter, and I’m especially thankful that they’ve been livestreaming for several years (here’s the sermon from May 29, 2016). But this past Sunday was the first time we’ve streamed an online-only service.
We definitely had a learning curve on the technology side. The team did a great job expanding our streaming capabilities so that our stream is available not only on our YouTube channel but also on our Facebook page and even Roku-enabled devices. We also streamed to a free platform that had trouble keeping up with the traffic--it was, after all, America’s first day of social-distance church--but offers onscreen options like giving or pulling up an electronic Bible. We had staff members chatting live on several of these channels, and it was great to hear from lots of you by email and text as well.
But technology wasn’t the only learning curve. What to stream was also a huge question. Some large churches regularly lead their worship services with a group of less than 10, so some of them just held a regular service Sunday and pretended their auditoriums weren’t empty. If we wanted to abide by the CDC’s recommendations, though, we couldn’t even request our full orchestra--much less our choir.
So we decided to keep our group of leaders under 10. Counting our pastor and pastor emeritus, that left us eight musicians. Our church has a mixed quartet that sings from time to time, and the others in the quartet agreed to join me. But one of the five musical balances we hold very dearly is the balance of participating and presenting. How in the world could we help our congregation sing at all… when we weren’t even congregating?
“Reformation Hymn”
A mixed quartet sings at Morningside Baptist Church, March 22, 2020.
One option we tried on our first online-only service was to replay prerecorded congregational singing (here’s the link for those who missed it). That allowed our viewers to hear the singing that the congregation had done--at least beforehand. We also got some people tuning in during that time who wondered if they had opened an archived video instead of the livestream.
In the end, we decided to keep our music live during the service. We displayed the projected lyrics instead of faces during the singing, and our quartet was accompanied by piano and a small strings group (thanks to Josiah, Naomi, and Micah Wright for joining in). We heard from several of our church family that they were able to join in the singing, and we definitely want to improve that ability for others this week as well. After the service officially ended, we played recordings first of the choir and then of the congregation.
Was this anything like being together in person? Yes and no. David de Bruyn laments the losses, and they are real. Certainly most of our broadcasts’ views didn’t happen live, and we lament that as well. But during the time of social distancing, any contact--and especially knowing that so many of you have been able to participate--is something we think is well worth celebrating.
Todd Jones
Music Pastor
Morningside Baptist Church
Memorize This Song
Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me…
Are you humming yet? Maybe humming inside?
One of our musical goals is to help you learn songs so well that they’re in your heart the rest of your life. We try to plan many songs often enough so that over time you can learn them by memory. For some songs we want to make sure that happens even if you don’t hear them anywhere else.
Memorizing worship songs—from simple choruses to gospel songs to rich hymns—has amazing benefits:
Focus
When you’re singing by heart, you can focus better—as long as you don’t zone out. But memory removes the need to process information like printed or projected text. At our services we always plan to give text. Actually, for the benefit of all those with basic music literacy, we include notation for any songs that aren’t in our hymnal. (Getting your own copy of our hymnal is very easy and can help reinforce the learning you get at church.) We want you to have help understanding our songs from your very first visit. But while we want to help you learn, we also hope you can eventually get past the aids we give you. Once you can focus on the meaning instead of the medium, you can meditate so much better!
Availability
Memorized songs are always available. There’s no data plan as universal, no smart speaker as responsive, as your own memory. It’s everywhere you go and always ready to start up without even a moment’s notice. When you know a song by heart, you are ready to access its message whenever or wherever you need it. And the usefulness of “Amazing Grace” shouldn’t be limited to cell service, battery life, or wifi. You should be ready to be amazed at God’s grace literally anywhere.
Longevity
Songs combine poetry, music, and life connections. Because of that combination, songs can stir memories even when many other memories —and reading abilities—fade out. When loved ones slide into dementia, hymns can be one of the last ways to connect with them.
There’s an amazing video of an unbeliever (it’s true!) connecting with a dementia patient because she took the time to learn some hymns. The State of New York even recognizes the benefits of connecting to dementia patients through hymns.
So we look forward to seeing you this Sunday! We’ll plan to sing some newer songs as well—that’s one of the balances that’s very important to us. But we definitely plan to include some songs that many of us have memorized over the years. We look forward to sharing them with you.
Todd Jones
Music Pastor
These songbooks also include many of the songs we get from outside our hymnal:
Forever Be Sure (3/1 PM)
Just before Dr. Jim Tillotson closes our 2020 missions conference, we’ll hear from guest musicians Forever Be Sure.
Based in Ankeny, Iowa, FBS developed out of a 2006 family gathering and has been recording studio albums since 2008. They’ll be in the Upstate as part of their Carolina tour.