If you haven’t been to Morningside much, you may not yet realize why choirs are so important to us:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28)
We value hearing music presented by singers of all ages and skill levels (not to mention multiple ethnic backgrounds, rich and poor, and male and female). This helps model just a little of the beautiful diversity of the body of Christ.
Kids: We just started a preschool choir, and the children’s choir is singing again on Mother’s Day.
Students: The teen ensemble just sang last week!
Morningside Teen Ensemble sings “All I Have Is Christ” on April 25, 2021.
Rooted (ages 18-22) is leading this Sunday’s evening service.
Groups of Pursue young adults prepare music for us regularly.
And our regular choir—open to all teens and adults of all skill levels—sings every Sunday.
Our choir has been growing again, but there’s still room for you!
Solos and small groups are wonderful, and we enjoy hearing from them regularly too. (Sometimes during the pandemic that’s all we felt we should have!) But there’s something special about people from different generations and backgrounds working together to accomplish something that none of them—even the most talented—could have done alone. It’s a little bit like being… the church.
Some of these groups involve pretty significant time commitments, and except for the summers our church orchestra does require some real skill. But all the rest are really an extension of our congregational singing—which is the heart of our music ministry.
Kids, teens, Rooted, and Pursue all sing together every Sunday. And our young families class and our Morningside Seniors had congregational singing this week too. If you’d like information on how to have congregational singing in your group, we’d be glad to help!