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Christian House Bands and Smoke Machines

March 13, 2013

We’re counting down the ten top posts on this blog over the past ten years. This was from three years ago. It is my favorite rant.

smoke machineI was in a church recently and asked my wife why we couldn’t see the worship leader at the front. We both realized simultaneously that the “house band” was using a smoke machine! I half expected David Lee Roth or Jon Bon Jovi to come flying out through the haze to the center spot. And yes, there were several spotlights.

A few weeks later, a friend of mine was showing me through their newly renovated “worship facility” and he humbly told me they just spent $50,000 on stage lighting for the band. I choked on my bile…I did.

Then, I attended a local “worship” event two weeks ago where they had strobe lights, changing colors, sound effects and 12 speakers in the small church auditorium. The bass booster rivaled all the gang-banger cars in my neighborhood.

The final straw was an article in the local  newspaper quoting someone leaving an Easter Worship service at the local mega-church who said, “It was awesome. The band was really kickin”. I am trying to imagine God leaning back, listening to their songs and saying “Angel-dudes, come here…that band is really kickin’”

I am frustrated and feeling alone in this. My thoughts are all over the place these days with annoyance about church and music. I have wondered when the worship service got hijacked by CCM (Christian Contemporary Music). That was the actual thought that went through my mind. That is the same day I heard Michael Spencer (the Internet Monk) had passed away. In honor of this great writer and Christian, I went through some of his blog archives. I found this from 2002:

CCM is a commercial enterprise, owned largely by secular corporate interests, and certainly driven by the values of the entertainment industry more than those of the church. It is part of the entertainment culture, and only partially related to the culture of classic, orthodox Christian tradition. CCM has virtually no accountability to the larger Christian tradition, or even the Christian musical tradition. (A list of the “One Hundred Greatest Songs in Christian Music” shows no awareness of traditional gospel, country, Black gospel, Southern gospel or classical music. Odd, ignorant and sad.) As an industry, it has no accountability to the larger church and only rarely any accountability to the local church (with some refreshing exceptions.) It has no standards of doctrinal orthodox, and resists any notion that its lyrics may at times promote error and even heresy.

He is saying that what most churches call “worship” now is simply the decisive invasion of the Christian Music Industry into our church services. It is to the point now where so many new Christians have been taught this is the only way worship is done, to change it would cause a riot. When this is the only way “worship” is practiced in church, can you blame people for equating worship with CCM?

Worship is not about us. It is not about music.  It is not about feeling better when it’s over. It is telling God how much we think he is worth. (That’s what the word “worship” means….worth-ship) Now we don’t bother…instead, we tell the band how much they’re worth. Apparently, several hundred thousand dollars in equipment and technology. I often wonder who many people are clapping for at the end of “worship songs”.

This is what makes me mad. Worship is not a concert! Hear those words again: Worship is not a concert.

It is not even music. You can use music. You can do it at a concert. But you can do it on an airplane, in a tunnel, when all your children and possessions have been taken from you (remember Job) and you don’t have to have ANY MUSIC AT ALL!

You are going to hate me for saying this, but many, many churches don’t have worship services, they have well-constructed, highly entertaining concerts. That’s why they’re spending $18,000 on a projection system, $12,000 on a drum enclosure, $80,000 for a floor that looks and sounds like Starbucks, and Mackie mixers that make P Diddy drool (or whatever his name currently is). The churches that can’t afford this, or who would rather have a children’s pastor, are left behind as the crowds go to hear the next great concert church  that appeared overnight in a School gymnatorium.

They don’t have worship leaders, they have cheerleaders who lead us to believe it is a sin not to clap, to have a bad day, to not know the words to the 200th new song we’ve learned this year and who can make the last syllable of every ballad contain 18 modulated  notes. I am one of those who test pastors for their theological knowledge and so many “worship pastors” haven’t much of a clue about theology.

It is time to eliminate the professional musicians and American Idol audition cast from the front of our churches and let a few people who have mad and deep love for God be up there. People who appreciate that silence is worship too. That bringing an offering or submitting attitudes of greed to our Father is worship. It is time for a few songs we sang 20 years ago to be sung again: Perhaps for two Sundays in a row. Perhaps have a time where people talk to God and listen for his voice…oh, it would have to be quiet enough for that.

I yearn for the day when no one says “that was an awesome time of worship” after the ringing in the ears stops – and people say nothing because they are speechless and repentant in the presence of a Holy God.

And those who do have a love for technology: Get over it. Technology is certainly a valid tool, but when it becomes an end in itself, it is a curse and a distraction. I have ADD…I can’t watch the screen where new lyrics are flashing and concentrate when the stage has already changed colors five times while I’m doing it. Just as preachers and teachers need to learn not to use PowerPoint/EasyWorship so strangely (really? Do we need a Dancing Jesus in the corner of the screen?), so we need to say “less is more” when technology meets worship.

I think it is time to return to the simplicity of the Psalms, where there were both songs of praise and songs of lament. There are songs of triumph and songs of repentance. There are songs of adoration and songs where we deal with the reality of enemies.

And please, please, please, can we not sing a song 11 times through. In fact, can we stop singing occasionally and just be in awe in his presence.

I wrote all of the above and here is my pedigree: I love rock music. I listen to CCM. I go to concerts. I was one of the first pastors anywhere to bring drums into church. But leave the concert in the concert hall. And you can have all your new songs. Give me Jesus…and one or two new songs. And silence.

And anyone who says this is a discussion about hymns vs. choruses is going to be shut in the drum enclosure down the street.

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Why Men Should Not be Ordained

November 21, 2012

Asbury Professor, Ben Witherington nails this truth in a recent blog entry on why men should not be ordained.

This is how we often approach the logic behind excluding women from certain ministry positions. Well written.

Top 10 Reasons Why Men Shouldn’t Be Ordained

10. A man’s place is in the army.

9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent.
8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks such as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It would be “unnatural” for them to do other forms of work.
7. Man was created before woman. It is therefore obvious that man was a prototype. Thus, they represent an experiment, rather than the crowning achievement of creation.
6. Men are too emotional to be priests or pastors. This is easily demonstrated by their conduct at football games and watching basketball tournaments.
5. Some men are handsome; they will distract women worshipers.
4. To be ordained pastor is to nurture the congregation. But this is not a traditional male role. Rather, throughout history, women have been considered to be not only more skilled than men at nurturing, but also more frequently attracted to it. This makes them the obvious choice for ordination.
3. Men are overly prone to violence. No really manly man wants to settle disputes by any means other than by fighting about it. Thus, they would be poor role models, as well as being dangerously unstable in positions of leadership.
2. Men can still be involved in church activities, even without being ordained. They can sweep paths, repair the church roof, change the oil in the church vans, and maybe even lead the singing on Father’s Day. By confining themselves to such traditional male roles, they can still be vitally important in the life of the Church.
1. In the New Testament account, the person who betrayed Jesus was a man. Thus, his lack of faith and ensuing punishment stands as a symbol of the subordinated position that all men should take.

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Old Mega-Churches Vs. New Mega-Churches

November 20, 2012

There is a difference between the church that grew slowly over 60 years from a handful of followers of Christ, through various stages of rise and fall, and the group that became a phenomenon overnight.

1. Older Mega-Churches (MC) have diverse age groups. I attended an MC last weekend and noticed this 50 year old church had many people in every demographic. Attending an MC a month ago that is 10 years old, everyone was in the under 40 crowd.

2. Older MCs have more defined outreach programs. Older groups look at more diverse ways to reach their community through feeding and clothing programs, reading and educational outreaches and service-oriented approaches. Newer MCs do not have the visibility to achieve this yet./

3. The preaching in an older MC is usually more exegetical and leans less toward contemporary issues.

4. The worship/singing time in  older MCs combines many different musical and age-related tastes. Last weekend, in the same service, we sang songs as new as today (10,000 reasons) and as old as Christianity (Holy, Holy, Holy) with Refiner’s Fire thrown in for good measure.

5. The staff of an older MC always includes children of the leadership team . Why? Because the older an MC, the more chance that children have grown up in the culture of that church and can articulate the values without having to think about them.. Who would you rather have leading your church than someone with that pedigree. It is like having a professional sports star coaching a team he used to play for.

6. The older MC has weathered many days of crisis and personal conflict and therefore is not easily thrown off path by the vagaries of personal failure. You aren’t going to see an older MC crash and burn easily.

7. The older MC has an influence in local politics, education, media, community arts, homeless programs, law enforcement etc. that the newer church is only at the beginning of trying to create. Because of this, the older MC has resources for those in need and in trouble that the newer MC can only dream of having.

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Here is a Real Treat

July 24, 2012

In 1981, I sat in meetings taught by Dr. J. Edwin Orr. He was probably the greatest scholar and expert on the subject of Christian Revival. I was mesmerized. I am fairly hard on public speakers, but I could have listened to Dr. Orr for hours and hours.

I just found an archive of old messages by Dr. Orr. If you have any heart for the work of God in our world, then you will be blessed beyond measure to listen to his teaching.

Here is the link to his sermons: http://bit.ly/LLh4Vw.

Here are the ones I would listen to:

Wales Revival

Movements in Latin America

The Resurgence of 1882 onward

Movements between World Wars.

In fact, you can’t go wrong if you listen to all of these.

 

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How The Church Will Die

February 18, 2012

Mike Breen (from this article) has an interesting take on his examination of today’s American brand of Church. He often does an exercise with people he is discipling and asks “If the Enemy could bring you down and destroy you, how is he most likely to accomplish it?”

He then asks that question of the American Church. He sees three things that are going to bring us down:

And so this is how, if our enemy gets his way, the American church could be taken out:

A culture of CELEBRITY (affirmation)

A culture of CONSUMERISM (appetite)

A culture of COMPETITION (ambition)

I resonate especially with the competition factor. It is almost impossible these days to meet with a group of pastors and not see significant evidence of the “strutting Rooster” syndrome.

What do you think could destroy the American Church?

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Finally…Winter Passion

October 21, 2011

Kathy and I stopped to stare at the snow drift across the highway. It was 5:30 p.m. and the snow was drifting 8 feet off the ground in places. More snow was predicted for the rest of the night and into the next day as well. This was Highway 93, the major artery through northwest Montana and we were cross-country skiing down the middle of it. We feared no cars coming up on us; not even the snowplows were going out in this horrendous storm. So what were we doing out here?

My wife worked as a nurse on a heart Telemetry unit at the Kalispell Regional Medical Center. They worked 12 hour shifts and hers started in a half hour. The phone lines were not working, so Kathy couldn’t call the hospital to find out if they were expecting her. But after looking at the closed highway, we were fairly certain they did. The nurses working these 12 hour shifts could not go home until they were replaced. No one was driving in or out of town at all, so we figured these nurses who had been looking after patients all day would have to continue in that vein for another 24 hours. That’s when I got a bright idea.

We only lived about 6 blocks from the hospital, straight down Highway 93. We had done cross-country skiing for years and now we could put good vocational use to the sport. Since we had both grown up in Canada, we were well stocked with all the accouterment clothing for frigid weather, including long, thermal underwear. We layered on the garments, pulled on our ski boots and headed out the door. It took us almost a half hour to navigate the drifts and bare spots on the road in near zero visibility, but we did arrive at the hospital doors right as her shift was supposed to start. As we sloshed down the hallway, the nurses on duty just stared at us as if we were living snowmen. Kathy was able to relieve a couple of them, allowing them a few hours sleep. Over the next 24 hours, they were able to keep spelling each other off in 3 hour increments, thereby giving some of the most medically fragile patients the best care.

The next day the road was still closed, so we retraced our route through the snow and arrived home from our winter’s adventure. Never have I enjoyed a night by the fireplace with hot tea more than that one. We sat there glancing at the blizzard outside, secure that we had conquered the elements. We could now take a worthy rest, knowing the job was done well. I want to use that as the picture for our final study in passion: Winter Passion.

As winter approaches each year, I look forlornly at my 32 rose bushes in the yard. I hate this part, but it is so necessary if I want an abundance of roses next year. I usually set aside three days to begin the process of hacking, cutting, shaping and almost annihilating each bush until all that is left is a shadow of their summer selves. This pruning process demands a ruthless mindset; I cannot afford to be namby-pamby with them. If I leave suckers, weak shoots, dead branches or crossthatched pieces in the way of the final product, all I will have is leaves and branches the next summer and no roses to enjoy. To get through this stage of the rose bush cycle, I attack each bush with gusto. If the dead wood has to go, I’m not going to shirk and complain.

In Ecclesiastes 3, the Preacher Koheleth tells it this way:

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under heaven:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Look at some of the entries together: “A time to die…a time to uproot…a time to kill…a time to tear down…a time to mourn…a time to give up…a time to throw away….a time to hate…a time for war”. These are not everyone’s favorite parts of the list. But they describe events and things people feel acutely emotional about. No one can escape passion at the death of a loved one. No one gets out of the intensity of tearing something apart. We don’t think of these times as good or agreeable, but they are decidedly passionate. In v. 11 Koheleth even claims that “He has made everything beautiful in its time”. The word “beautiful” in Hebrew means “appropriate or timely”. It is wonderful to feel passion for the beginning of things and the growth of those same things and even the full completion of the course. But perhaps the complete passion comes when we decide to tear something down, kill it, let it go, uproot it and declare war upon it.

Jesus turned over the money-changers and cursed a fig tree. He cried out with a loud voice “It is Finished”. He and the martyr Stephen both gave up their spirits to God and then died. The death of the martyrs is the foundation of the Church. Only when you allow and encourage things to end and come to their logical completion can you then begin to see the beginnings of new growth. In turn, the time of winter is when we rest from our labors. Winter is Sabbath; Winter is Rest; Winter is letting go; Winter is being still and knowing that He is God. If you cannot enjoy that passion, the passion of bringing things to an end when they need to be brought to an end, then you have not experienced every aspect of passion.

In 1992, I spoke at a Ladies retreat. It took me five hours to drive there and my car broke down on the way. I spoke four times that weekend, including one meeting for husbands and wives. At that meeting, I gave an altar invitation and several men surrendered their lives to Christ. As I drove home from the weekend, I realized they hadn’t paid me for speaking –  not even my travel expense. I waited several weeks for a check to arrive, but I never received one. During one time alone with God, he encouraged me to let it go and not carry it on my shoulders. I was able to relinquish that wounded feeling and it felt wonderful to let it go.

Six years later, my wife and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. We went and stayed at a beautiful but expensive Bed and Breakfast. It was way out of our price range, but we wanted to splurge. The B and B had free breakfast, but they also had a full dining room for all meals. The meals were also expensive, but as I said, we were going all out. On Sunday afternoon, the owners of the place asked Kat and I if we could eat the evening meal just with them. That was a curious request, but we were delighted to do that. They really put on the ritz for us and we wondered how much that was going to cost us. During the meal, the wife asked if I remembered her or her husband. I told her they did not ring a bell with me. Then they told me his testimony. They had lived in another part of the state years earlier. She had been invited to go to a women’s retreat. On the Saturday night, her husband joined her at the banquet. That night I gave an invitation and he came forward and received Christ. That weekend saved their marriage and gave them a ministry together in this beautiful bed and breakfast.

Then they told us the real reason we were at dinner that night. God wanted them to give us that entire week at the Bed and Breakfast for free as a token of their appreciation. As they shared this with me, I heard the Lord say in my heart “Paid in Full”. As they prayed for us after dinner, the husband had a sense from God that this was going to be a week of letting go. Kat and I both resonated with that prayer. As we talked later, we both revealed we had been feeling a sense of needing to let something go. The more we talked day after day, the closer we came to a hard reality: Our 11 year ministry at the church we currently served was now coming to a close. We had come there when they were 50 people and now there were almost 700. Yet, God was telling both of us we were to leave there and go somewhere new. Eventually, months later we realized God was calling us to plant a new church. But the Winter passion consisted of Kathy and I surrendering the church at that Bed and Breakfast. We felt both rested and sad. We were going to have to say goodbye to a lot of dear people. We were going to be pruned. But it had to be.

What things have to come to an end in your life during this season? What things do you need to kill, tear up, relinquish, escape? How are you supposed to scatter your stones, give up or throw away? If you do it, do it with fervor and gusto. Embrace the Winter passion and ski down the center of that deserted highway with flare.

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Summertime Passion

October 11, 2011

As I looked over the large group of people gathered for training, I couldn’t hold back the tears. Just ten years ago, we started our counseling/prayer ministry with one person: Me. At that time, God showed me I needed to begin a training program to equip other counselors to practice what I did. I started with four other help professionals. Since that time, over 100 people have been trained to do this sort of counseling. This large group meeting was a blend of trained people, interested folk, pastors, psychologists and their friends. I watched as those I had trained lead most of the seminar, doing a work I never even dreamed possible all those years ago.

That feeling I had is what I call Summertime Passion. It is the sense that the initial vision and excitement is now beginning to gel into something substantial and long-lasting. It is the feeling of pride a parent gets when their oldest child graduates from something. It is embodied in that moment when a friend quotes something you have said over and over again, and you realize it is now part of their belief system too. I think this may be the most satisfying season of passion.

Spring is the promise of new life to a farmer. But summer is where the farmer works the hardest; tending the new shoots, feeding the burgeoning crops, watering it all. When we think of the passions of our life, Summertime passion takes the most effort. We all know people who come up with a hundred great schemes and visions, only to leave most of them barely beyond the Spring stage. Their plantings are often stunted for lack of work and continued passion. They only get excited about new things and continue to abandon their new seedlings in search of fallow fields and planting opportunities. One person comes to my mind immediately. This person loves to dream and get others excited about the vision. Yet, there is a persistent pattern of losing passion when the real work starts.

How can we avoid shutting off our passions during the summer season?

There are three things that need to be added to initial vision. Just as the farmer must ensure nutrients, water and sunshine get to his growing crops, so too there are three essential ingredients if one is to enjoy the fruit of their labors during Summertime passion.

1. Adding Maturity to New Growth

I was camp director for a teen camp over an 11 year period. One of the sad realities I faced was watching teenagers make commitments for Christ at the camp and then stop following Jesus afterward. At times, teens were wary of making any commitment during the camp for fear they would simply punk out on that commitment when they got home. One year, a brother/sister pair dedicated themselves to obeying Christ every day. It was more than just a verbal agreement; they had both been heavy drug users and they were tired of all it had done to them. The day before camp ended, they came up to me and asked if I would help them draft a plan on how to live after they went home. Most of all, they wanted to stay off drugs. In addition, both of them felt compassion on their friends who were still wrapped up in dope.

Our plan involved inviting their drug friends over for some meetings. Each time, either the youth pastor or myself would share about the love of God after one of our teens shared their testimony of Jesus’ changing power. Honestly, only two of their friends made any move toward faith in Christ. But, those who did not move toward God also did not approach them any more about using drugs. That was an incredible time of maturing for both of them. For the remaining years I pastored that church they were leaders in the youth group and mentors for others trying to kick bad habits.

In Hebrews 5:12–14, it says:

In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

To be mature means to train oneself to distinguish good from evil. We do that by constant practice and carrying forward of our vision into the realities of life. In agricultural terms, it is so much easier to plant the seeds than to do all the other things that help the growth. When a person enters into the lifestyle that their vision requires, it produces a different kind of passion. This is not just exciting, but gives a sense of firmness and reality to the original vision.

2. Adding Mentoring to New Growth:

In his book, “The Tipping Point”, Malcolm Gladwell identifies one type of person who helps to shape change in our society. He calls this person the “Information Maven”, whose gift is to find wonderful new truths, inventions, trends and ideas and liberally pass them on to others who can make good use of them. This skill set enables the Maven to join together people of vision with people of action. When those two things are mixed together, the results are exciting and quick. The same is true with Summertime passion. Nothing helps us pass along our vision like the process of mentoring someone in that same process. Those we mentor emerge into a new vision for their life –  a springtime passion. For those of us doing the mentoring, the joy is much fuller. We get to have the summertime passion of realizing our vision flowing through another person.

I watch as Jim Harbaugh coaches for the San Francisco 49ers. Harbaugh was a quarterback a long time ago by football years. He won a Super Bowl and had as many good seasons as bad. From there, he went on to successfully coach teams in college and finally this year came back to the pro game. This year, he has taken a quarterback under his wing that most people had given up on. Alex Smith was the first pick in the College Draft and has never had a winning season as starter. Yet, Harbaugh stuck with him and has worked with him many hours each week. He has designed a system to help his team, and his quarterback, be a success. I watched last week as his quarterback threw his third touchdown pass of the game…the second week in a row he has done that. When Smith came off the field, Harbaugh dropped his quiet, determined manner and hugged him fiercely. You can see the Summertime passion all over his face these days. He is not throwing the ball, but it may feel even better to see his protege doing it.

3. Adding Partnerships to New Growth:

The natural outflow of mentoring relationships should lead to a deeper place called a Partnership. With mentoring, the joy is discovered in passing on a set of skills. But the passion released in partnerships is seeing someone take off with a vision in a direction you have not traveled. In the Book of Acts, Barnabas is asked to go pastor a young gentile church in Antioch. The more he spends time with this group, the bigger the task seems to him. To lessen his load, he finds a man named Saul who is now called Paul. The two of them go back to Antioch and co-pastor the church. Years earlier, Barnabas had mentored Paul when no one else was brave enough to be around him. Antioch, however, marked a different stage in their relationship. Barnabas allowed Paul the authority to carry on his ministry without having to be mentored any further. Barnabas worked side-by-side with Paul as equals. A year or so after they started working in that church, God called the two of them to partner in a new venture: A mission to the Gentile towns of Asia minor. Mentoring should eventually lead to partnerships if we do it correctly. Often we don’t allow our mentorees to become partners because we really don’t trust the work we did with them.

It is a different flavor to have people you formerly mentored now serving with you side by side in a project. I find it thrilling to see my trained counselors being sought out by people from other towns because their reputation has gone ahead of them. A few weeks ago, a young lady who has been seeing one of our counselors met me in church for the first time. As we talked, she wanted to know if I did any of the counseling. Ten years before, I did ALL of the counseling. Now, in a given week, I might do a quarter of all the ministry in that area…perhaps less. And it thrills me to know the original vision is now sprouting and taking on a life of its own. That is summertime passion.

What new ideas have you continued to mature in? What mentorees have you brought along with you on your visionary journey? Have you released partners to carry on with you? If you haven’t, then you’re missing out on the joy of Summertime. And once you have seen the summer, the passion of the Fall will amaze you.

Next time.

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The Red Bull Gospel | Out of Ur | Conversations for Ministry Leaders

May 31, 2011

 

 

 

The Red Bull Gospel | Out of Ur | Conversations for Ministry Leaders.

Are you bothered as I am that kids all over America are enjoying Youth group pizza nights, but the majority of them will not attend church once their youth group days are over? Here is an article you need to read if you care about teens at all.

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Economic Woes and No Easy Answer – Why??

June 7, 2010

Read carefully this article that focuses on the Prime Minister of Britain. He is not exaggerating in the slightest when he says that there are perhaps DECADES of financial woes ahead for his country. And, as we know, as goes Britain, so goes the rest of Western Europe. Here is a quote that gives the flavor:

Mr. Cameron said that at more than 11 percent, Britain’s budget deficit was the largest ever faced by the country in peacetime. But he warned that the structural deficit was more worrisome. Britain currently owes a total of more than $1.12 trillion , he said, and in five years will owe nearly double that if nothing is done now.

Considering their relatively small Gross Domestic Product (compared to the US) this is an almost insurmountable problem for them. What can we take away from that? Namely that most other western nations are next. The conditions that existed for their economic demise are at our doorstep as well. But what has lead to this? Surely not the current recession? Nothing is ever that simple…except perhaps Read the rest of this entry ?

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Summer Sing Half Hour Concert

July 25, 2008

The music camp sponsored by Gateway Fellowship this week was a huge success, as you can tell by the pictures below. Heron School teacher, Rebekah Cyr directed this incredible camp all week and the kids came away with a phenomenal appreciation for music. Tonight’s concert is a half hour event with music and cake. It begins at 7 but the kids should be there at 6:45 p.m. Bring the whole famil

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