SUNDAY MEMORIES
Judy Wills
The Music
Still making that detour….
And that brings me to the church we are members of now. We’ve been in that church since 1996, and love it. As one pastor said, this church is what heaven is going to be like – a mixture of peoples and races. We have about 40 different nations represented in our church – and we are all worshiping the same God! It’s wonderful!
This congregation is not a mega-church, as so many are these days, but a nice-sized church of about 800 members. Of course, not all attend at the same time, so we have between 300-350 attending each Sunday. That changed when the pandemic hit, unfortunately, and we haven’t gotten back to full-strength yet. However, between all those attending, and those watching through live-stream, we are close. I am thankful for the live-stream, so I can still “attend church” when I am home on a Sunday for some reason or another. But it’s just not the same as being with other believers and worshipers.
All that to say that our choir has been a fairly good-sized choir throughout all those years. Not huge, but some good voices.
2017 – Sanctuary Choir, South Orlando Baptist Church
Unfortunately, I have pictures from only one musical we’ve performed…but it was a good one.
In 2004 we performed one called Journey to the Manger. We had a narrator, manger scenes,
modern scenes,
Old England scenes,
Medieval scenes,
Depression era scenes,
children’s choirs, etc.
It was wonderful.
One of our choir members was a professional seamstress. Her ministry was to make all of the period costumes in these pictures. She is amazing! But the story was so filled with the Gospel of the coming of Jesus Christ, that no one could miss the message!
I mentioned last time that one of the musicals we did in Virginia, Christmas is Calling You Home, we also performed at this church. I have some wonderful mental pictures of that performance but, unfortunately no actual pictures of it.
We also performed Easter cantatas, and had other “musical” type of services.
If you can get back into the Oldthingsrnew archives, my post of September 30, 2012 tells of a concert we performed – six of us on Clavinovas (digital/electronic pianos). Our Minister of Music was always on the look-out for something musical to give inspiration to our church. Also, if you will find the archives and find my post of October 7, 2012, I tell of a concert violinist who came and gave her testimony, and played her violin. She is magnificent!
So those are some of the “musical” things that we have been part of in the churches where we were members. We have always enjoyed being in the choir, wherever we were. Music has always been a part of our lives, and we are grateful.
WE….ARE THE CHURCH!
~~~~~~~~~~To Be Continued~~~~~~~~~~
Judy is living in Central Florida with her retired U.S. Air Force husband of 50+ years. Born in Dallas, Texas, she grew up in the Southwestern United States.She met her husband at their church, where he was attending the university in her town. After college and seminary, he entered the Air Force, and their adventures began.They lived in eight of our United States, and spent six years in Europe, where their oldest daughter was born. She was a stay-at-home mom for many years .
Judy has always been involved with music, both playing the piano and singing. Always interested in exercise, she was an aerobic dancing instructor, as well as a piano teacher for many years, and continues to faithfully exercise at home.
After moving to Central Florida, she served as a church secretary for nearly nine years.Her main hobby at this point in time is scanning pictures and 35mm slides into the computer. She also enjoys scrapbooking.She and her husband have two married daughters and four grandchildren, including grandtwins as well as a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter. She and her husband enjoy the Disney parks as often as possible.
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