While reading a copy of “The Chorister” a church

musician periodical) recently, I came across an

article written by Brian Hehn.  He gave four functions

for the church choir.  They included:

 

1) The church choir leads and enlivens the congregation in song. 

2) The church choir sings music that many in the congregation cannot sing,

3) The church choir serves as a small-group within the church for faith formation

4) The church choir sings beautiful and challenging music to praise God and edify the congregation.

 

I started thinking about our mission at Roberta.  We spend a lot of time together between Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings.  Most of this is working hard to prepare for our services.  Some of it is having fun and caring for each other and supporting each other.  We have been known to shut rehearsal down right in the middle of practice for several minutes to offer prayer for an urgent need of some kind.  So I will have to say that the group you see before you each week is a group who loves the Lord, loves what they do and tries hard to bring you our best. We want you to experience the spirit of God in what we do. We want you to experience that “holy moment”. We want you to meet Jesus through what we sing and do. We are an imperfect people however, and things do sometimes go awry. But God loves us and accepts us. He expects us to get back up and try again. And we do. We would love to have you come sing with us. You are welcome. You do not have to be a perfect musician to join us. Come give us a try.    

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Sharon Wooten

Choir Director / Accompanist

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