It is so good to have a choir again at church! We may not be able to stay together past Christmas, but we are going to sing a Christmas cantata this year.

Thursday night as we were practicing, I realized how special it is to be a part of this group. There’s just something about singing with a group of fellow believers. Maybe I appreciate it even more now, since we’ve been without choir for a little over a year. How we’ve missed Ken and Susan since they moved away! Ken was a special part of our church’s worship team and choir, and Susan is a talented musician (keyboard, cello, guitar, and vocalist) who was a excellent, professional choir director.

Even though we still don’t have a choir director, several people have come forward to make this Christmas cantata choir possible. There’s a couple who got us organized and are leading the choir (but they don’t consider themselves “directors”). We also have section leaders, and we spend half of our practice time going over our parts seperately. And Susan has even recorded the soprano, alto, tenor and bass parts on keyboard and sent the recordings to us so we can use them to practice.

A number of the new choir members don’t read music, but those of us who do are helping. This week, the parts were really coming together and sounding good. It is so exciting to see how we can help each other and hear the musical results. I want to thank the Lord for bringing us together and for the amazing team effort that is going on. He is so good to have given us music and voices to sing with! It brings us joy, as well as pleasure to Him, to praise Him in song.

Psalm 95:1-7
“O Come, let us sing unto the Lord : let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth : the strength of the hills is His also. The sea is His, and He made it : and His hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down : let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.”