If you can come a little early on Sunday mornings, you can sing in the Choir! Choir rehearses at 9:15 AM each Sunday in the sanctuary, starting September 10th. If you can come only occasionally, you are still most welcome. Come and sing, come and have fun!
"She was probably about eight years old," he said. "Blond as butter, small for her age, but stocky, tense with concentration, her face pinched up to its limit in fervor, Minna was singing. And what a singer she was! In a class of perhaps 20, her voice carried easily over the others and out the open window into the October sunlight. Like other children who know totally what they are doing and want you to know that they know, Minna sang louder than anybody else and just a bit ahead of all the others, rushing tempos blissfully, in complete ecstasy.
"The song period of that class went on at some length," he recalled. "Each child got to pick his favorite hymn, and Minna knew them all. She knew every last syllable of every last verse. Finally, when it was her turn to choose, there was no hesitation. Minna selected 'Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam' despite the fact that it had been sung just a few minutes before. If she had been singing spiritedly before, now she shouted.
"I will never forget her face, though today, 40 years later,
I am not even sure whether she was pretty or plain, only that her
pink features were stretched tight with happiness, and she was
singing the way children were meant to sing—totally. And she was
blind, the victim of a freak accident in her first month of life.
Minna had never seen a sunbeam. Perhaps 'never seen' is the wrong
way to put it. One look at her face convinced you that she knew
exactly what a sunbeam was, and certainly she was being a sunbeam—for
Him and for all the rest of the world to see. Of course 'Jesus
Wants Me for a Sunbeam' is in the Songbook.
Ele Nash
Music Director