Music for 122709

We were pleased to welcome a couple of guests today. Charles Sprawls (son of Charlotte and Perry) was in town for the holidays and sang "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" at worship. It was beautiful, and the best part from my perspective was that he sang it unaccompanied! Very nicely done. The choir did "Glory to God" from "Messiah" this morning also. We had prepared it for 12/20 which was canceled because of weather. We did it this morning sans soprano soloist (at work) and sans string quartet (not contracted for this date), but we added a new soprano, our very own Shannon K. She had been wanting to sing with us for a while and decided today was the day. The whole ensemble did a very nice job. I played Willcocks variations on a couple of the carols so I was happy for that reason also. All in all a very nice Sunday. Next week we'll be back to our usual service schedule: FirstLight at 830AM and the second service at 11AM. The guest preacher will be our own Bob Tuttle preaching from the Prologue in St. John's gospel.