Music Ensembles
Directed by our Minister of Music,
Michael Bodnyk
SUNDAY SINGERS
The Sunday Singers are a wonderful group of musicians made up of members of our congregation, as well as our Choral Scholars.
The choir sings at the 11am service each Sunday, leading the congregation in worship, as well as providing musical offerings through beautiful music throughout the service.
The Chancel Choir rehearses at church every Wednesday from 12-1pm.
Bell Choir
The Bell Choir gives a nice “ring” to our Sunday services!
This handbell choir performs bi-monthly at Sunday services, playing pieces for handbells that range from settings of contemporary praise songs to traditional hymns.
The Bell Choir rehearses at the church every Wednesday from 1:30-2:30pm and on Sunday mornings between services at 10am.
Choral Scholars Program
The Choral Scholars program is designed to reach local undergraduate and graduate level music students and offer to them a professional opportunity to be part of our music ensembles. We hope to be able to provide some of that experience, while at the same time helping these student grow in their own musicianship by giving them opportunities and coaching they might not get elsewhere.
Additionally, the Choral Scholars help reinforce our already fine ensembles at the church and will help allow us to grow in the kinds of repertoire we can take on. Our Choral Scholars will also help support the group when members are not able to be present during certain times of the year.
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- Kelly Collins
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- Gabriel Welch
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- Nina Moroney
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- Kevin Moroney
Upcoming Music Events
Following African independence movements throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a number of Western missionaries encouraged the composition of Christian song in African idioms. Thomas S. Colvin (1925-2000) was one of these missionaries.
Our prelude music is a beautiful Easter composition for flute and organ by Charles Callahan (1951-2023) incorporating the ancient sequence chant, “Victimae paschali laudes” (Praise to the paschal victim).
“God loved the world”, an anonymous German hymn, grows out of John 3:16 and sounds out the ground of faith with comfort, especially for those who are troubled, sick, or dying. It first appeared in Heiliges Lippen - und Herzens-Opfer einer gläubigen Seele oder Vollständiges Gesangbuch (c. 1778), a huge collection, that with supplements, contained 1,313 hymns. In the United States the hymn was published in the first official hymnal of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, Kirchengesangbuch für Evangelisches-Lutherische Gemeinde (St. Louis, 1847). August Crull (1845-1923) made a translation in the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn Book, beginning “Our God so loved the world that He.” Evangelical Lutheran Worship uses a modified version.
“God loved the world”, an anonymous German hymn, grows out of John 3:16 and sounds out the ground of faith with comfort, especially for those who are troubled, sick, or dying. It first appeared in Heiliges Lippen - und Herzens-Opfer einer gläubigen Seele oder Vollständiges Gesangbuch (c. 1778), a huge collection, that with supplements, contained 1,313 hymns. In the United States the hymn was published in the first official hymnal of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, Kirchengesangbuch für Evangelisches-Lutherische Gemeinde (St. Louis, 1847). August Crull (1845-1923) made a translation in the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn Book, beginning “Our God so loved the world that He.” Evangelical Lutheran Worship uses a modified version.
