WEDNESDAY MUSIC PROGRAM DAYS & TIMES

Wednesdays, 5:30-6:00                                     ROCKsong (K-5)

Wednesdays, 5:45 pm -7:00 pm                        Hand Bells

                     7:15 pm -8:45 pm                        Chancel Choir

Sunday, September 13                  9:30 am                           

NEW MUSIC PROGRAM FOR JR AND SR HIGHS

We are VERY excited to welcome Ted Gibson as our new “Music Man” for the ROCK singers AND our junior and senior highs.  Ted will be bringing his guitar, musicianship and charismatic personality to the first twenty minutes of the junior/senior high Sunday School time.   It will be wonderful to have a music program that serves all ages.  We look forward to enjoying our youth with Ted’s energetic and compelling leadership.

WELCOME TO NEW AND RETURNING UPC MUSICIANS

I am looking forward to a new and exciting year of music making at UPC.  We have wonderful music selected for our first worship theme, Peacemaking.  Three of the pieces have great percussion parts and one has a beautiful hand bell accompaniment.  WE NEED YOU to play hand bells or one of these percussion parts:  African drums, Shakers, Rainstick, Crickets, Frog Guiros.  There will be percussion rehearsals so don’t worry. 

The UPC Music Program offers leadership in praise and thanksgiving to God through the sounds of voice and instrument.  Music is a corporate expression of the many talents God has given to each of us; talents that we use to proclaim God’s word of grace, love and justice.

The UPC Music Program has several choir opportunities:

Sunshine Choir is for UPC's youngest musicians, ages 3 through grade one. Children are exposed to music through singing, movement and playing instruments.

ROCKsong is composed of children in grades K-5.  It is part of our ROCK (Really Outstanding Christian Kids) program on Wednesday afternoons and meets from 5:30-6:00.

Chancel Choir sings for regular morning worship and for special worship and church events.  Practice is on Wednesday evenings from 7:15-8:45.  Every December we celebrate the holidays with our annual Christmas Dessert Concert.

Handbell Choir plays once a month in worship and at special church events.  Practice is on Wednesdays from 6:15-7:15.

Instrumentalists from our congregation and the community grace us with their music and enhance our worship.

Goals

1.      To lead the congregation in its worship of God through music seeking the highest standards which are achievable and employing a variety of forms, styles and media in order to meet the diverse needs of the membership

2.      To offer a variety of means through which church members can develop music skills, learn the great music of the church and express their faith through the medium of music.

3.      To invite the greater community into the church by presenting quality music programs open to the public

4.      To reach out to ASU through the involvement of students in the music program of the church.