One Generation - Giant Choir

Timothy was the Apostle Paul's "beloved son" (2 Timothy 1:2) in the faith, his partner in ministry, the one he left behind to pastor the church in Ephesus (according to most Bible scholars.)

Look at this great testimony of where Timothy was taught about faith found in the first chapter of 2 Timothy.

             5 For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

This Sunday in worship (at 8:30 and 9:45) we are going to have a beautiful picture of one generation declaring their faith to another generation as we sing "One Generation" the title song from our new choir CD. We're going to have a GIANT Family Choir with all generations singing together. ♫ One Generation shall praise Your name to another. ♪ ♫ One Generation declares Your mighty works.♪ ♫

While we sing we will have a video playing made up of pictures from our church family. In these pictures you will see three, four and even five generations together. It's REALLY awesome!

Here's a picture of me and my mom and my daughter, Christy, and her son - my newest grandbaby, Malachi. (It will be in the video while we sing - of course.)

So that you and your children can learn "One Generation" and join us in our Giant Mother's Day Choir this Sunday, here is a recording of "One Generation" that you can listen to.

 

Of course EVERYONE needs to buy a copy of our CD (it's how I'm helping our HS handbell choir, ReZounding PraiZe, get to Portugal on a mission trip) and it's just nice to have some worship music to play in your car while you're traveling around town with your children. The CD is made of songs that we sing together in worship or that you have heard our choir sing.

Making May Memories

When I was a child we had a May Day tradition in our family. I still remember it (and I think - if I remember correctly - that I passed along this tradition to my daughter, Christy.)

On May 1st - May Day - we would make a basket and fill it with flowers. I guess people still do this because I found some pictures of May Day Baskets (yay, Google).

 

We made ours out of strawberry baskets. Remember these? Do they still come this way? I don't remember seeing them lately.

 

We would run ribbon in and out of the basket and add some ribbon for a handle. Then we would fill the basket up with fresh flowers cut from our yard.

The fun part was then going to one of our church's senior adult's house where we would leave the basket on the doorstep or hang it on the door handle. We would then ring the doorbell then run and hide behind the bushes to watch as the lady answered the door and was pleasantly surprised by an anonymous gift of flowers.

I suppose nowadays you'd get shot by some neighbors if they saw you hiding in the bushes. But that's a different post.

Making memories with your children is SO important. It connects you as family. It provides a fantastic opportunity to teach values - if you have good activities and talk about what you are doing. And it just makes life more fun! That's important!

Here's a memory you can make with your children that will be easy and fun. Take our choir CD (buy one tonight if you don't have one yet) and teach your child(ren) the song "One Generation" and then join us next Sunday morning for a giant family choir as we sing "One Generation" in our 8:30 and 9:45 services. How fun is that? Ask grandma to sing with us too and get all the generations together!

 

To summarize:
Today - make a May Day basket to fill with flowers and leave it on someone's door without getting shot.
This week - get a choir CD and teach "One Generation" to your kids and your mom.
Mother's Day, May 12 - sing with our giant choir for the 8:30 and/or 9:45 worship services at Hilldale.

Silent Auction - Art for Missions

Our Silent Auction for Missions goes through Friday, May 10. You can see the paintings and artwork in person at our Family Life Center on Old Farmers Road. (Side note - I've always wondered if the farmer is old or the road is old.)

Anyway, I'll let the art speak for itself. If you are interested, you can bid by calling the FLC at 931-368-0205 or stop by in person.

 

The Psalm 150 Project

Psalm 150 calls us to praise the Lord with instruments.

 

 

 

 

Our music/worship ministry invites you to join us in leading in worship by using your band or orchestra instrument during our Sunday morning worship during the 8:30 and 9:45 services.

 

This is how it will work - at least at first.

 

Contact Bro. Lyndel or Donna and let us know what instrument you play. (You can call the church office, send an e-mail or a Facebook message.) In addition to what instrument you play, let us know how long you have played and if there is anything else we need to know before we get music for you. For instance: if you play the baritone do you read treble or bass clef?

 

We will then have music for you to pick up on Wednesday night for the following Sunday morning. Your music will be in the choir room. It will be your responsibility to play through the music (more than once, thank you) before Sunday morning. Then at 8:00 on Sunday (or earlier - I'm here at 7:00) you can set up to play for the service that begins at 8:30.

 

At first we will only play the first set of music in the service and then you can leave when the choir leaves and either go to your LifeGroup or to the service. As we play more we'll add more music and have some Sunday afternoon rehearsal times.

 

I've created a Facebook group called "The Psalm 150 Project" where we can share information about instrumental music in worship at Hilldale. If I could figure out how to get it's

Facebook address I would put it here. Haha!

 

Rehearsals for the Passion Play

Look here for rehearsal information for the Passion Play.

Rehearsals for Sunday, March 17

3:00 - "All to Give You Glory"

People needed - dancers - on stage

4:30 - "Be Born in Me" - in choir room

People needed - Gabriel, Mary, backup singers
“Alive” - on stage
People needed - Gabriel, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, backup singers

4:50 - "Alive" - in choir room

“Be Born in Me” - on stage

5:15 - Arrest & Crucifixion

People needed—Jesus, Peter, Paul, John, Judas, angry mob,  Roman soldiers, thieves,

5:45 - arrest & crucifixion with choir

6:15 - "When Love Sees You" - on stage

People needed - Jesus, lady who touches His hem, choir

6:45 - "Everybody Sing Hosanna" - on stage

People needed - Jesus, choir, crowd extras

7:10 - Heaven Scene - "The Great Day" "All to Give You Glory" "Jesus Saves"  

People needed - Choir

Please make plans to be at these important rehearsals.

Wednesday, March 20, 6:00 - full rehearsal. Thieves and soldiers in costume.
Thursday, March 21, 6:00 - Dress rehearsal - choir, actors, everyone!

The Power of the Cross

A perfect song for Lent - or as us Baptists usually say, the weeks leading up to Easter. :-)

This is a video of Kristyn Getty singing this incredible song that her husband Keith and Stuart Townend wrote way back in 2005. Absolutely fantastic lyrics and a beautiful melody. And of course Kristyn sings it sooooo beautifully!



Oh, by the way. The Getty's are in concert at the Ryman on St. Patrick's Day. How cool is that?! There are still tickets available. I might be able to get you a good price on tickets if you are interested.

A New Blog

Hilldale's High School Handbell Choir is going to Portugal in June. We'll be playing in schools and churches and using those events as opportunities to share our faith.

One of the things we will be doing is handbell flash mobs. How fun is that?! We'll enter a courtyard or plaza from several directions "randomly" ringing bells and then when we all get to the center and have a good-sized crowd we'll play "Amazing Grace." This should draw a big crowd. Then we will give away CDs we are going to make (I'll give you all an opportunity later to help pay for them.) and give out fliers advertising an evening or next day concert.

I'm VERY excited about the CDs. We are going to record several songs. The missionaries in Portugal (Andy and Michelle Milam - you may have met them at our On Mission Conference last May if you attend Hilldale) are going to have people from the churches around Porto record either the Roman Road or some sort of Gospel presentation that we will include on the CD in between the songs. This way, if a person accepts a free CD they will not only hear beautiful handbell music, but he/she will then hear the Gospel in Portuguese and will have the address of a local Baptist Church that they can contact.

The CDs will be free to give away because you all - for a simple $15 gift - will get a CD for yourself but will also pay for three or four more.

Last night I had this thought - I figure it was the Lord speaking to me because I don't really do much thinking at 3:30 AM - that I should include on the CD a website for people to visit. So today I began a blog. You can see it at http://rezoundingpraize.blogspot.com/ This blog will have posts by our handbell choir where they will talk about the music or give their personal testimony or something like that. This is simply another way to get the Gospel out to the people of Portugal. There is already a link on that blog that gives you "The 4 Spiritual Laws" in Portuguese. I will add other similar links.

The first post on the blog is how our handbell choir got our name "Rezounding Praize."

Check it out, begin praying for our mission trip, buy a CD when they come out and we'll share blog posts before we go and then report back on the great things God was able to do in Portugal.