What an
outstanding job our kids did last Sunday night in the presentation of
“Splash Kingdom!!” You probably noticed that many in this group were
pretty young, first and second graders, but they really stepped up and
performed.
This is
the end of our Kids’ Music Theater and Preschool Praise Club for this
year. There are several complications to the schedule that made it
difficult to continue to the end of the school year, but they will be
back next fall. Thank you, parents and grandparents, for making the
effort to get your kids here for all the rehearsals.
There is a
tendency for us to think of our choirs at Hillcrest as being just for
those who are good singers. Being a good singer certainly doesn’t hurt,
but choirs give us the opportunity to minister in so many ways. Music
has a way of “sticking with us.” There are regular reports of people
with Alzheimer’s who can sing very clearly the songs from their past. We
are careful to sing songs that are important because of the scripture
they contain or the Biblical truths they express. I was visiting with
one of our senior adults before the performance Sunday night, and she
was telling me how her grandkids, now 41 and 37, can still sing songs
they learned in children’s choirs at Hillcrest. The grandson, she said,
still can’t “carry a tune in a bucket,” but he remembers the songs and
the words. Lynn and I have seen that with our own girls who, now in
their mid 30s, can still sing many of the songs from their growing up in
children’s choirs here at Hillcrest.
Parents,
as you consider what to do next fall, don’t fail to consider what you
are providing your children that will give them Biblical truths they can
pull from to live their lives for years to come. Children’s choirs
provide an excellent staff and curriculum to accomplish that. Join us
next fall!!
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