Busy

This has been an incredibly busy couple of months—I’ve been working on two huge programs on top of my regular hours and am now in the home stretch. On Monday we will have our school’s Elementary/Middle School Christmas Program, and on Thursday our church sponsors the Reformed Theological Seminary’s Christmas concert. Throw in some rehearsals and it’s an every night out week.

The Elem./MS program promises to be sweet—the cute factor combined with what I hope will be great performances should make it a great evening out for the Parents and Families of our students. It will be a debut performance for our 6th grade choir students, and they are very excited about performing. They have worked very hard on their music, and on the fine art of standing still and concentrating on their director and on what they have to do. It’s been fun to see their progress and their excitement grow. The 7/8th grade choir is a bit further along in their skills, as this is the third year I’ve had some of them, and they have a confidence and enthusiasm that’s cool to see. I’m hoping they’ll continue on in choir in High School. I’m also looking forward to seeing all the Elementary students perform. (Particularly one shy little Kindergartener named Marla.)

The RTS program consists of a 40 voice community choir, strings, organ, piano, narration by Steve Brown, and solos by Jonathan and Amanda Noel. The theme of this year’s program is “Jesus Christ: Prince of Peace, Hope of the World.” The music’s very beautiful and our goal is to point the listener to the hope we have in Christ. We’ve been praying as a choir that the Lord would use the truth of the song texts, Scripture, and Message to open the ears of the unbeliever and encourage those who might need encouragement in these times we live in. The concert will be at 7:00 pm in the RTS chapel in Oviedo on the 13th.

Adding these two events to an already busy schedule has made the past two months blur by… I’m looking forward to a brief respite over the Christmas break. After that, we hold auditions and begin rehearsals for our High School Spring production, “Cinderella” by Rogers and Hammerstien, begin working on Spring Festival literature at both schools, and put together a Broadway review show. I’m truly looking forward to this Summer’s slower pace, but am excited about the tasks ahead. Until then, it’s busy, busy, busy.