Alex - Sing Noel

Here's a short clip of Alex. He's singing "Sing Noel". He missed a few of the words.
Here's Dan's translation:

"Jingle bird, jingle bird, noel, noel"
"Mary and Joseph went to ... Mary's house"
He forgot the words and made up the rest.

You can send me videos of your kiddos singing Christmas tunes too.

More Retreat Pics

These pictures are from Brenda.






Don't take my picture!




Don't take my picture either!



I can't hold this wall much longer!



OK. Now it's getting harder. Someone come help me!





Sing this high.


Higher!




Higher!!


Where's ESPN?

Retreat Fun

We had a wonderful time on our Christmas retreat!

I had two main objectives for our retreat. 1. to get some good rehearsal time so we would know our Christmas music better and 2. have some fun times together where we got to know each other a little better.

I think we accomplished both!

Here are some pictures courtesy of Star.

Notice the back row mugging the camera!

Breakfast with interesting eggs.

comfy bed!

That's interesting. What is it?

Snack time!

Today's E-inchoirer

Here's a copy of today's e-inchoirer in case your copy got caught in your spam filter.


Good Morning!

I hope you all are having a great day!
Wow! We had 72 in choir last night! Thanks for joining us for rehearsal. For those of you who may have missed choir, here are a few announcements you need to know.

The Retreat
You can get directions for the retreat here http://hilldaleworship.blogspot.com/2007/10/choir-retreat-directions.html
You need to eat supper on your way to Jonathan Creek. Our first rehearsal will begin at 7:00. We’ll have signs up to help you find us. We’ll also have you checked in and have your keys to your rooms.
Bring a snack you can share. We’re going to have a fun time together and really learn Christmas music!

Sunday’s Anthem
Last Sunday’s singing of “He Never Failed Me Yet” was waaaay cool. Thanks for singing! What a fun song.
This week’s anthem – “That’s What I Want My Praise to Be” with the beautiful DVD accompaniment.

New choir members
We’ve had several new members the past few weeks. Welcome!
Nadine Ray – Tenor
Rebecca May – Soprano
Danny May – Bass
Dawn Ward – Soprano

Christmas Rehearsals
We WILL NOT be able to rehearse the next two Wednesday nights! AAAAAaaah! That’s pretty scary this close to Christmas. Therefore, we have some makeup rehearsals. Please do your best to join us for these rehearsals.
Saturday, Nov. 3, 9-11 AM
Sunday, Nov. 18, 6:30-8:00 PM (after the Thanksgiving Dinner here at church)
In the past we have had “snack and sings” - little rehearsals in someone’s home where a group could get together and sing through the Christmas music. If you would be willing to host a group at your home hit the old “reply” button and let me know. We can do this by sections or as mixed groups. If we have several to choose from I’ll send you some options.

Family Life Center Banquets
The banquets about our Family Life Center are next week. If you haven’t signed up to join us for dinner one night next week call the church office and get your name on the list. We’ll feed your children here and you and your spouse can have a nice dinner together without the kids.

Rejoice!
R. Lyndel Littleton
Worship Pastor
Hilldale Baptist Church
Connecting Lives - to Christ and each other - through worship

The World Series

I think that the World Series is coming up pretty soon. I'm always surprised that they are still playing baseball this late in the year. I don't know any teams' stats and if I did know their stats I wouldn't know what they meant.



So I'm also surprised that I am putting a link here to an article about baseball. But since my lovely wife, Cheryl sent it to me I read it. You can read it by clicking here. http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=7156



So I'll probably be rooting for the Rockies this year, but you'll need to tell me what happens at the games. Use words that someone who doesn't understand why you would pinch someone and then expect them to hit the ball and not you would understand.

Clarksville Traffic

I decided to drive up to Clarksville this morning via Hwy 41A (AKA "Clarksville Pike" if you live in Whites Creek or "Madison" if you live in Clarksville). I figured I-24 is crazy enough in dry traffic much less during a good rain. I was headed to the YMCA for a little exercise to start the day and ended up arriving at the intersection by Wal-Mart (I guess that's Madison and the I-24 connector don't know it's official name) just a little after 7:00. When the light changed I started across the intersection and much to my surprise - and horror - I was stuck out in the middle of the intersection! I hate it when cars block an intersection and there I was - me and my little blue PT Cruiser sitting there where we would block traffic if the light changed. Thankfully I was able to change lanes before the light changed. I slowly drove down Madison expecting to come up on a giant wreck with car pieces strewn (strown? strung?) scattered everywhere. But no! The traffic was backed up in the right lane all the way from - what's the name of that road? It has at least three names. richviewfield or something like that. Anyway, it was just school traffic! Wow!

So is there a point to this story? Hmmm, well, I guess the point might be that I should go ahead and take the interstate to Clarksville in the mornings, but I think I'd like to point out that our church is in a prime location near several schools and businesses and thousands - perhaps millions of people drive by it every day.

"They should join us on Sundays", you might say. However, most studies show that most people who attend a church for the first time come there because a friend invited them. Another reason they might come is for a special program like "The Tree". We have a great opportunity coming up in December. Join us Wednesday night for rehearsal as we get ready for a tremendous outreach event.

Hmm, this was a lot longer than I planned. If you're still with me, thanks for reading. See you soon!

Great Music - Great Truth

Your singing - I should have posted this before I posted Silent Night in Japanese - yesterday was super! What a fun song! And what a great text. I hope you keep track of all those times when God shows His faithfulness to you. You need to do that so when you're up against a difficult time in life or things seem to be falling apart, you can look back and say, "you know... God showed me this time and that time and another time how He takes care of me and brings me through the tough times in life - or gives me grace and peace to keep going, so I know from experience that He has never failed me, so I choose to trust Him today and not worry and..." well, you need to word that for yourself, but I think you see what I'm trying to say.

Have a wonderful week. I'll be looking for all of you Wednesday night!

I think this picture says exactly what I am trying to say.