Wales

I'm going on a singing mission trip with the Tennessee Baptist Men's Chorale to Wales next Monday. I'll be gone for 10 days. The people of Wales have a great singing tradition. Every little town has a men's chorus. Many of our hymns were written in Wales: "Immortal, Invisible", "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah", "Praise the Lord Ye Heavens Adore Him", "O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus", "Like a River Glorious" and more. However, over the years, the people of Wales - as in all of Europe - have become very secular and church attendance in an Evangelical church is at about 2%. The purpose of our trip is to try to connect - build relationships - with the men in the choirs there. We will be singing joint concerts with some of the choirs and singing in the Chapels (small churches). We hope to also be an encouragement to the believers there who are very discouraged by the spiritual state of their nation and low numbers of Christians.

A castle near where we are staying.

The TN Baptist Men's Chorale is made up of Worship Pastors/Ministers of Music from all across Tennessee. Here is an article in one of the Welsh papers about us.

The article points out that "the churches in America still sing the hymns from the Welsh tradition as a vibrant way to express their worship of God." What of wonderful testimony of our singing. The article also says that this tour is our "thank you" for the rich musical tradition of the Welsh.