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Youth Choir
The youth choir is open to youth in grades 6-12. Both choirs rehearse on Sundays at 3:45 pm during the school year. Forgiven, the Middle School Choir, meets in Room 134 and Alive, the High School Choir, meets in the Worship Center.  If you would like more information on Youth Choir opportunities, please e-mail Jay Hill, Minister of Music. 

Alive  2011 Summer Choir Tour

 Alive  followed God’s lead to Kansas for Tour 2011. We began our ministry at the Salvation Army in Garden City, Kansas. We worked almost all day weeding, painting, cleaning, organizing, sorting, and helping with the Day Camp kids. We also delivered invitations to the evening concert to homes in the blocks near the Salvation Army. We made a difference in the look of the buildings and in the hearts of those who came to the concert and just hung around with us. The leader indicated that a couple of his young people made a commitment to do a better job of leading by example as a result of our influence.

From Garden City we moved to Anthony, Kansas where we spent the better part of four days, Thursday through Sunday. Friday was a work day. We laminated and we laminated and we laminated and when we weren’t laminating we were painting shelves, cleaning and organizing pre-school children’s materials, and assembling VBS materials. We were told that the laminating for the pre-school had been building up for eight years. It was a full day. 

Friday night and Saturday night were spent at the pool. Saturday also included a trip to the Alabaster Caverns on what proved to be the hottest day of any year in recent memory. Bank signs reported highs between 108° and 115°. The Caverns, at about 60° were a welcome respite. Sunday we sang in the morning services at Anthony Christian Church and presented a full concert in the evening service.

Monday we moved to Newton where we presented a concert at the Kansas Christian Home, the nursing home portion of a Christian retirement community. Earlier in the day we had the chance to clean in the home and visit with residents. They touched our lives and we hope God used us to make a difference in theirs. 

Tuesday we moved to Liberal for our last concert. Liberal Christian Church meets in a renovated bank building. It is unique. It was so intriguing that one youth was overheard exclaiming, “Oh, I want to go to a bank church!” By this time the group was tired but we prayed and clearly sensed the touch of the Holy Spirit as we ministered to possibly the smallest yet most responsive congregation. We were blessed. The music was strong and the message of the clear choice between walking with God or walking away was used by Him to refocus our lives and the lives of those we ministered to.  We are grateful to our church and families who make these opportunities possible. Singing at home was a rich blessing and a great evening of fellowship with our church family.

Click here to enjoy more photos - special thanks to Marcie Stowell for sharing her trip pictures!

Forgiven Summer 2011 Project

Forgiven, the Middle School Choir, spent Saturday morning, May 21, at the Southeast Baptist Pantry. They sang in the Evangelistic service and then helped patrons with their groceries. They did not go out of town overnight this year for their ministry weekend. Sunday night, May 22, they presented their Spring musical. The script was written by Brooke Shade, a member of the choir. The presentation was excellent. It was a strong message of our individual responsibility to share the Gospel and a call to get up, go out, and do it.

 

Forgiven Home Concert, 5/22/11

Alive HS Choir Tour May 31 - June 6, 2010 Alive, the high school choir, just returned from ministry locally and on the road May 31 through June 6. We sang at three youth facilities. One in the Springs, one in Green Mountain Falls, and one in Pueblo. From Pueblo we traveled west to Norwood, Colorado where we teamed up with Joe and Judy Bowman, now pastoring the Norwood Southern Baptist Church.

We presented a concert on Thursday night and worked at the high school helping with clean-up and at the cemetery straightening and leveling tombstones and markers. The cemetery caretaker was thrilled. Our labor has opened doors for Joe and Judy in that community that might have otherwise taken them years to touch. We concluded the trip leading the 8:30 a.m. music at First Baptist Church, Raton, New Mexico. We were ministered to as we shared and participated in their worship and the pastor’s message. Our home concert was the climax of this ministry. We led our home church in an evening of honest, spiritual worship. God was honored and we were all blessed. What a privilege to be a part of this ministry.

Jay W. Hill, Minister of Music 

Thanks to Marcie Stowell for sharing her choir tour pictures!