Music for worship 8/24/08

As part of our on-going centennial celebration, this Sunday we will feature our education ministry under the worship leadership of Pat Tuttle and Ginny Soll. FirstLight will begin with the Avery&Marsh song, "We are the church." We'll also sing "What a mighty God we serve" and "I will call upon the Lord." Lauren Patton will sing a special at the offering. She's off to MD in a week to begin rehearsals for a traveling production of "The Wizard of Oz;" yeah Lauren! We'll close worship with Carl Schalk's "God of the sparrow, God of the whale." Under the leadership of Pat and Ginny, the worship will have a decided child-ish flavor, and the music will compliment with joy and simplicity.

Worship at 11AM will include the hymns "All things brights and beautiful" (ROYAL OAK); "Called as partners to Christ's service" (BEECHER); and "God of the sparrow, God of the whale" (ROEDER). We'll use the Avery&Marsh song as the introit and sing Dauermann's "The trees of the field" at the benediction. As a special treat I will be playing John Leavitt's "Scenes of Childhood" for the prelude. This is a set of five pieces inspired by five poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A child's garden of verse." Originally for organ with narrator, I'll be doing it with just the organ, though the text of the poems will be in the guide to worship. If one is listening carefully, one might hear snippets of "Twinkle, twinkle little star," "Old MacDonald had a farm," and other kids songs in the five movements! Get there early: 4 of the 5 movements will be heard before the Trinity bell and reading of announcements! The choir will sing Pepper Choplin's "Train up a child" at the readings.