Faithful: 11/13 Praise Service
In an ever-changing culture that is increasingly becoming less reflective, many people miss out on the refreshment of learning to pause and remember God’s blessings. There is one day every year, when Americans recognize the need to give thanks. This year, it’s November 24.
In recent years, Morningside has launched the holiday season with a Praise Service. This year’s Praise Service will be on November 13. We will take time to reflect on an important truth:
Our God is faithful.
Maybe this year has been filled with blessings. Maybe this year has been full of unspeakable grief and loss.
Whether on the mountain or in the valley God will be faithful to accomplish His glory and our good. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it” (1 Thess. 5:24).
Plans for our praise service include:
Scripture Readings
“Holy Is He” from our choir and orchestra
Several orchestrated congregationals
Morningside Baptist Church choir and orchestra lead the congregation in “It Is Well With My Soul.”
Several musicians and readers plan to help lead us before their holiday travels begin. We hope to see you there.
Two Modern-Classic Hymns
This summer, we’re adding two hymns to our congregational repertoire. Most of what we sing in our worship services we call “modern hymns” (like “In Christ Alone”) or “classic hymns” (like “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”). These two hymns, though, are both modern and classic.
Here Is Love
“Here Is Love” is a late-20th-century blend of a classic hymn text and a classic hymn tune. Both text and tune were instrumental in the Welsh Revival (1904-5). In the 1970s Our choir and orchestra have sung a beautiful arrangement of it for many years:
Turn Your Eyes
“Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” is not as old as the Welsh original of “Here Is Love,” but it does turn 100 this year.
Helen Lemmel (1864-1961) was a Seattle music critic, a German-trained singer, and a director of women’s choirs for evangelist Billy Sunday. In 1922 she wrote a searching hymn that offered “light in the darkness” to the “weary and troubled” if they would only “look full” on the “wonderful face” of Jesus.
Helen Lemmel, 1895.
The setting we’re learning this summer takes Lemmel’s chorus as its first stanza and adds a new chorus and three gospel-filled stanzas:
Stanza 2 calls our attention to Calvary, “where justice and mercy embrace” (Psalm 85:10)
Because of the Resurrection, Stanza 3 reminds us, taking the Lord’s Supper obeys Jesus’ symbolic command to take His very life—His blood—into our bodies (Lev. 17:11; John 6:54-56; 1 Corinthians 11:25-27)
Stanza 4 calls us to long for the day when every knee bows and every tongue gives “glory to Jesus alone” (Philippians 2:10-11)
We sang it first in our 8/7 PM Singspiration—the classic version was requested by two different classes! We also sang it for the morning service on August 14.
Todd Jones
Assistant Pastor
August 7 Singspiration and Recital
update with video
What we sing together in corporate worship is one of the most important parts of the identity we share as a church family.
As we’ve been doing every few months, the evening of August 7 is a Singspiration—the message is primarily in the songs we’ll be singing. We’ll feature favorites chosen as many of our classes and small groups as we can.
Listed below is our hymn supplement and a link to our hymnal’s index of 600+ worship songs. If you’d like us to consider a modern or classic hymn that we don’t include here, we’d love to hear it.
The hour before the service, we’ll have a sacred recital of vocal and instrumental music from all ages and skill levels. If you’d like to participate in the recital, just click here. Join us at 4 PM to hear our musicians and 5 PM to sing together.
Morningside Baptist Church
Hymn Supplement
Updated April 2022
Across the Lands
All I Have Is Christ
Almighty Father
Before the Throne of God Above
Behold Our God
Beneath the Cross
Bow the Knee
Christ Is Sufficient
Chosen As His His Children (I’m Born Again)
Compassion Hymn
Complete in Thee
For the Sake of His Name
Give Me Jesus
God Bless America
God's Word Shall Stand Forever
He Will Hold Me Fast
His Robes For Mine
How Deep the Father's Love
I Am with You
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
I Run to Christ
In Christ Alone
In God We Trust, in God Alone
It's Still the Cross
Jesus Strong and Kind
Just As I Am/I Come Broken
My Hope Is Jesus
My Jesus, Fair
O God, My Joy
O Great God
O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer
Oh, How Good It Is
Only a Holy God
Our God Is Mighty
Reformation Hymn
Resurrection Hymn/See, What a Morning
Speak, O Lord
Still, My Soul, Be Still
The Call For Reapers
The Haven of Rest
The Perfect Wisdom of Our God
The Power of the Cross
Trust Me
We Will Follow
Wonderful, Merciful Savior
Worthy of Worship
Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me
You Are Always Good
You Are the Christ
April 10 Singspiration
April 10 is a Singspiration—the evening’s message is primarily in the songs we’ll be singing. Just as we did in the summer, we’ll feature favorites from as many of our classes and small groups as we can. You can find our hymn supplement listed below, as well as a link to our hymnal index. Even if you haven’t joined a class yet, we’d love to hear from you.
Hymn Supplement
March 2022
Across the Lands
All I Have Is Christ
Almighty Father
Before the Throne of God Above
Behold Our God
Beneath the Cross
Bow the Knee
Christ Is Sufficient
Compassion Hymn
Complete in Thee
For the Sake of His Name
Give Me Jesus
God Bless America
God, Please Bless America
God's Word Shall Stand Forever
He Will Hold Me Fast
Headed For Home
His Robes For Mine
How Deep the Father's Love
I Am with You
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
I Run to Christ
In Christ Alone
In God We Trust, in God Alone
It's Still the Cross
Jesus Strong and Kind
Just As I Am/I Come Broken
My Hope Is Jesus
My Jesus, Fair
O God, My Joy
O Great God
O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer
Oh, How Good It Is
Only a Holy God
Our God Is Mighty
Reformation Hymn
Relentless Love
Resurrection Hymn/See, What a Morning
Speak, O Lord
Still, My Soul, Be Still
The Call For Reapers
The Haven of Rest
The Perfect Wisdom of Our God
The Power of the Cross
Trust Me
We Will Follow
Wonderful, Merciful Savior
Worthy of Worship
Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me
You Are Always Good
You Are the Christ
Choir and Orchestra Retreat (Oct. 22-23)
Listening to our choir and orchestra is one of our regular opportunities to show our love for God. If you’d like to express your love for God by joining the choir or orchestra, October is one of the best times to start.
The choir and orchestra meet Friday and Saturday, October 22-23, to start practicing this year’s Christmas program, O Little Town of Bethlehem (Dec. 12, 10 AM). If you can join us then or practice with us regularly, we’d love to hear from you.
This year we’re excited to resume our annual tradition of two Christmas programs. For our 2019 and 2020 programs our choir and orchestra combined with our children’s choir and other groups to present a single program, but the week after our choir and orchestra present O Little Town of Bethlehem our children’s choir will present Wow! It’s Christmas (Dec. 19, 5 PM).
Our choir and orchestra and children’s choir practice every Sunday morning at 9. Children’s choir is open to kids through grade 5, and our choir and orchestra are open for students beginning in grade 6.
There’s a spot for you. Would you like to join us?
Singing to Ourselves
Speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:19
For the second time this year, members of many classes and small groups contributed favorite classic and modern hymns. There were so many requests that we sang nearly 40, including all seven of the songs for Sunday morning:
Classic Hymns
And Can It Be
Be Thou Exalted
Blessed Redeemer
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
He Will Hold Me Fast
How Great Thou Art
In the Sweet By and By
Jesus Paid It All
Lead Me to Calvary
Like a River Glorious
Make Me a Blessing
Master, the Tempest Is Raging
One Day
Rock of Ages
The Old Rugged Cross
The Wonder of It All
Trust and Obey
Victory in Jesus
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
I Surrender All
No One Ever Cared For Me Like Jesus
Thine Be the Glory
To God Be the Glory
Modern Hymns
Across the Lands
All I Have Is Christ
Before the Throne of God Above
Bow the Knee
Christ Is Sufficient
His Robes For Mine
How Deep the Father's Love
I Am with You
I Run to Christ
Jesus Strong and Kind
Resurrection Hymn/See, What a Morning
Still, My Soul, Be Still
Worthy of Worship
Wonderful, Merciful Savior
You Are Always Good
“How great THOU art”: Doug Young provides signs for a great song.
We also gave our voices some breaks. The choir started “Before the Throne of God Above” before letting us join in. Don and Sharon Kruger sang “Carry Me Home,” a delicate medley of two spirituals. And Doug Young reminded us how to sign “Trust and Obey”—and taught us signs for “How Great Thou Art.”
Thanks to those who sent requests:
Ambassadors: Dennis Bollinger, Ron Countryman, Shirley Kelsey
Bereans II: Rick Frans, Elizabeth Gilbert
Deaf/Hearing: Doug Young
Firm Foundations: Tim Snow
Foundational Truths: Many many many
Impact: Beth Cofer, Jennifer Harper
Pursue: Meagan Ingersoll
Rooted: Tom Stuhl
Victors: Paul & Marla Fields
Young at Heart: Jim Starr, Barbara Guerrant
Social Media: Don Vedders, Erin McMorris
And if you were there, in person or online, thank you for your singing! You gave us the message God wanted us to have.
-Todd Jones, Music Pastor
August 8 Singspiration
August 10 is a Singspiration—the evening’s message is primarily in the songs we’ll be singing. Just as we did in the spring, we’ll feature favorites from as many of our classes and small groups as we can. You can find our hymn supplement listed below, as well as a link to our hymnal index. Even if you haven’t joined a class yet, we’d love to hear from you.
Listen to our congregation sing Chris Anderson’s great hymn “His Robes for Mine” in our spring Singspiration.
Hymn Supplement
Across the Lands
All I Have Is Christ
Almighty Father
Before the Throne of God Above
Behold Our God
Beneath the Cross
Bow the Knee
Christ Is Sufficient
Compassion Hymn
Complete in Thee (Nyce)
For the Sake of His Name
Give Me Jesus
God, Please Bless America
God’s Word Shall Stand
He Will Hold Me Fast
Headed For Home
His Robes for Mine
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us
I Am With You
I Come Broken
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
I Run to Christ
In Christ Alone
In God We Trust, in God Alone
It’s Still the Cross
Jesus Strong and Kind
Just As I Am (I Come Broken)
My Jesus Fair
O God, My Joy
O Great God
Oh, How Good It Is
Our God Is Mighty
Resurrection Hymn
Relentless Love
See, What a Morning
Speak, O Lord
Still, My Soul, Be Still
The Call for Reapers
The Haven of Rest
The Perfect Wisdom of Our God
There Is an Everlasting Kindness
We Will Follow
Wonderful, Merciful Savior
Worthy of Worship
You Are Always Good
You Are the Christ
(Italics denotes alternate title)
Why Choir?
If you haven’t been to Morningside much, you may not yet realize why choirs are so important to us:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28)
We value hearing music presented by singers of all ages and skill levels (not to mention multiple ethnic backgrounds, rich and poor, and male and female). This helps model just a little of the beautiful diversity of the body of Christ.
Kids: We just started a preschool choir, and the children’s choir is singing again on Mother’s Day.
Students: The teen ensemble just sang last week!
Morningside Teen Ensemble sings “All I Have Is Christ” on April 25, 2021.
Rooted (ages 18-22) is leading this Sunday’s evening service.
Groups of Pursue young adults prepare music for us regularly.
And our regular choir—open to all teens and adults of all skill levels—sings every Sunday.
Our choir has been growing again, but there’s still room for you!
Solos and small groups are wonderful, and we enjoy hearing from them regularly too. (Sometimes during the pandemic that’s all we felt we should have!) But there’s something special about people from different generations and backgrounds working together to accomplish something that none of them—even the most talented—could have done alone. It’s a little bit like being… the church.
Some of these groups involve pretty significant time commitments, and except for the summers our church orchestra does require some real skill. But all the rest are really an extension of our congregational singing—which is the heart of our music ministry.
Kids, teens, Rooted, and Pursue all sing together every Sunday. And our young families class and our Morningside Seniors had congregational singing this week too. If you’d like information on how to have congregational singing in your group, we’d be glad to help!
Spring Sacred Recital
May 2
4:00 PM
Here’s something else we haven’t been able to do in nearly two years—hold a Sunday evening sacred recital. The last was in Fall 2019.
The return of Sunday PM services has increased opportunities for small and large vocal ensembles, but we have many more musicians that we hope to develop. (Any of our regular musicians could also be serving constantly in a smaller church somewhere around the world in the near future!)
A ladies ensemble sings “The Lord Is My Light” October 28, 2018, after singing it first at the Fall 2018 recital.
How does a sacred recital at Morningside work? It’s just a little different from our annual children’s Christmas recital. An hour before the evening service a few times a year, we meet in the auditorium to hear others proclaim in vocal or instrumental music how great God is and how they want to praise Him. Some of those testimonies we get to hear later in our regular services. We’d love to see you on May 2 at 4 PM.
If you’d like to participate, register here or find a print form at the Welcome Center. All ages and skill levels are welcome!
With One Voice Choral Festival (5/14/22)
With One Voice Choral Festival
In May 2022, members of our choir and orchestra plan to participate in a choral festival rescheduled from May 2020. Our choir is preparing several new pieces as we get ready for it:
Along with these new pieces we’ll do some of our long-time favorites: Only God, God of Heaven, New Every Morning, and Grace. We’ll also present the orchestrated congregational we learned in 2019 of His Robes for Mine, and festival participants will also get to participate in Joan Pinkston’s glorious orchestrated congregational of Crown Him with Many Crowns. We’ll join choristers from several churches from Greenville, Columbia, and Atlanta, and many of our orchestra members are invited to accompany. The congregation will get to sing along for several familiar hymns, and everyone will receive a gospel presentation.
“The Church of God Is One", demo recording with sheet music images
Seating is first come, first served—but there’s room for thousands. We hope you can join us! Contact music pastor Todd Jones with any questions.
You Spoke, We Sang
What a joy it was to sing God’s praises together Sunday night! Members of many small groups contributed, and we sang nearly twenty classic and modern hymns:
God’s Word Our Authority
The Bible Stands
How Firm a Foundation
God’s Character Our Delight
You Are Always Good
Behold Our God
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Fairest Lord Jesus
How Great Thou Art
The Love of God
God’s Salvation Our Amazement
Victory in Jesus
His Robes for Mine
I Stand Amazed in the Presence/My Savior’s Love
Love Lifted Me
Now I Belong to Jesus
God’s Blessings Our Testimony
Complete in Thee
The Wonder of It All
He Hideth My Soul
Love Lifted Me
He's a Wonderful Savior to Me
All That Thrills My Soul Is Jesus
He Will Hold Me Fast
Like a River Glorious
When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
We sang a couple in the morning service that several classes requested:
In Christ Alone
The Old Rugged Cross
Cousins Zach and Caleb Felber have sung together often, but Sunday night was our first time to hear from them.
We also gave our voices some breaks:
The choir starting “You Are Always Good”
A solo by Doug Lowery leading into “The Love of God”
A duet from Caleb and Zach Felber: “Satisfied”
Steve Cruice’s testimony of healing from cancer
Thanks to Steve Cruice, Kenneth Driscoll, Elizabeth Gilbert, Don Kruger, Rachel Lambert, Jim Mayhugh, Frances McLanahan, Ginny Nutz, Jeriel Ontoy, Linda Watson, and Bethany Webb for helping collect these favorites. And if you were there, thank you for your singing!
-Todd Jones, Music Pastor
Your Choice Matters
Some choices may not seem to matter much, but what we sing matters a great deal in eternity.
We’re building your song memory so that even without anyone helping you, without internet access, and even without a CD player (anyone have one of those?), you can sing to the Lord any day of the week. We’re praising the Lord for who He is and what He’s done, and we’re telling Him how much we love Him.
Morningside sings the final stanza of “This Is My Father’s World” on January 17, 2021.
Because what we sing matters so much, we take great care in how we choose the songs we sing and listen to together. The lyrics must be biblical, and we try to minimize any distraction that comes from the music itself or from the way we sing or play. If you’d like to see the history of our congregational singing since 2017, just contact Pastor Jones.
One of the Bible’s commands about singing, though, is to do it “in your heart” (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16). If you’re filled with the Spirit (Eph. 5:18) and allowing God’s Word to find a rich dwelling inside you (Col. 3:16), what’s in your heart is what we need to be singing. So from time to time we ask you what you’d like to sing. One of our liveliest social media discussions of 2020 was when we asked, “Share a song we sing that has helped you feel closer to God.” It’s not as if feelings are the most important part of worship—that’s not why we ask. But when your heart is engaged, some righteous emotions will be involved (see, for instance, Psalms 42 & 63).
March 28 is a Singspiration—the evening’s message is primarily in the songs we’ll be singing. That’s how much we believe in our songs. Not that they could ever take the primary place God’s Word itself must take in our worship. But we believe so strongly in their power to reinforce God’s Word that from time to time we take a fellowship-oriented service to celebrate what we sing in common.
This Singspiration we’ll feature favorites from as many of our classes as we can. We’d love to hear from you.
To the Lord: A Song Service on Prayer
Wednesday night I had the privilege of giving the challenge for our prayer service. I decided to have a song service on prayer itself, using the categories of biblical prayer that a godly man shared with me several years ago.
Charles Sturgill (1937-2020)
Brother Sturgill, as we called him, is with the Lord now. While I was at Stanley Heights Baptist Church (Chattanooga, TN), though, he was still a godly prayer warrior.
Charles Sturgill prayed for me and my family for many hours, so when he shared these categories with me it really meant a lot.
Praying in Jesus’ Name
Delighting in the Lord
Longing for Him
Praying with a Psalm
Praying with a Song
Interceding for Others
Submitting Our Plans
Bringing Urgent Needs
Thanking Him
Those categories have become very helpful in my personal prayer life, and for Wednesday’s challenge I paired each with a Scripture passage and a congregational song. You can watch the service below. If you’d like a copy of the booklet we used, let us know. I look forward to leading another song service in March.
Todd Jones
Music Pastor
Worth Waiting For: A Long-Delayed Morningside Premiere
We had waited for this for nearly a year.
On March 8, 2020, we finished the second-to-last rehearsal before the Morningside premiere of Pepper Choplin’s “Worthy Is the Lamb.” We had one rehearsal left before presenting it the next Sunday night. We started preparing the slides. We were so close.
On March 13, the world ground to a halt. On March 15, we held one last in-person AM service together before beginning 8 weeks of online only. Instead of the night we sang a new song, it was the first night we didn’t meet. Over the summer, we got to learn two new songs for outdoor song services. But it was months before we had anything like a choir on Sunday morning.
As health risk worsened in the late fall, we were thankful to help present a combined Christmas program and take a few weeks’ break. But once we started in January, we were determined to start learning pieces on Sunday again.
This week, it all came together. Seven days after a snowstorm, we had the best attendance for choir and orchestra since that last in-person service. And with that encouraging group, we finally got to present “Worthy Is the Lamb.” And wow, it was worth waiting for.
Amen.
Song Meditation: "Lord of the Small" and the Providence of Music
"Lord of the Small" has always been a moving text for me. Well-known composer Dan Forrest used it in 2010 when asked to honor the memory of 10-year-old cancer victim Erin Buenger.
Erin Buenger (Bryan, TX) fought cancer for most of her short life. cncfhope.org/CNCF_Hero_Erin_Buenger
It was especially moving this week.
This past weekend many of our members attended unexpected funerals, including one of a teen. Sunday we celebrated our part in gospel outreach to "the wretch in the street," as the text puts it, through Miracle Hill Ministries.
Many of the songs we present to the congregation get chosen several weeks beforehand so that we can prepare them well, and this was one of those. Yet God directed us to hear it this week.
God doesn’t choose us because we were great (Deut. 7:7). Instead He chooses the people who are small and weak in this world to shame the strong, great ones (1 Cor. 1:27). Truly we have "been given so much and can so little give." Praise to the Lord of the small.
In Christ,
Todd Jones
Music Pastor
Lord of the Small
Praise to the Lord of the small broken things,
Who sees the poor sparrow that cannot take wing,
Who loves the lame child and the wretch in the street,
Who comforts their sorrows and washes their feet.
Praise to the Lord of the faint and afraid,
Who girds them with courage and lends them His aid,
He pours out his spirit on vessels so weak
That the timid can serve and the silent can speak.
Praise to the Lord of the frail and the ill,
Who heals their afflictions or carries them till
They leave this tired frame and to paradise fly,
To never be sick and never to die.
Praise him, O praise Him all ye who yet live,
Who’ve been given so much and can so little give.
Our frail, lisping praise God will never despise.
He sees His dear children through mercy-filled eyes.-Johanna Anderson
Choirs, Choirs Everywhere: New Music Ministry Opportunities
Would you like to make music with us?
Along with regular rehearsals from our choir and orchestra and several other groups, we have new music ministry opportunities this spring. If you have preschool kids or attend prayer meetings, we’re trying to make room for you right away.
Preschool Choir
Many Sundays at 11 AM
Twice a month during the 11:00 hour, we plan to start rehearsing with our preschool kids. We look forward to hearing from them during the Easter season.
Evensong
Wednesdays at 6:45 PM
If you’re planning to attend each week’s prayer meeting and would like to minister with us that night, join us in our auditorium at 6:45 to practice a familiar hymn.
Regular Rehearsals
Choir and Orchestra: Sundays at 9 AM
Children’s Choir: Many Sundays at 11 AM
Teen Ensemble: Many Wednesdays at 7:45 PM
Pursue Ensemble: Many Sundays at 12 PM
For more information about any of these groups, contact Pastor Jones.
Christmas Music from Morningside Kids
As promised, over 20 of our Morningside Kids and middle school teens played for us last Sunday!
We heard from beginning strings students, advanced piano students, and just about everything in between. Players’ ages ranged from 6 to 13. In addition to piano, we heard violin, cello, French horn, classical guitar, and trumpet.
Thirteen families participated, and several joined for photos afterwards. Watch the video here.
This year we even had room for a couple of holiday guests, and lots of pictures are below.
Kids, parents, and teachers, thank you for investing in future church musicians! We look forward to next year’s recital already…
Watch this special music event with the kids of Morningside.
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.