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January Music Newsletter

– Opportunities & Announcements

• BYU Organ Workshops Online. This Thursday Evening 5 Jan 9PM.“Solo and Accompaniment Registration” with Dr. Neil Harmon. Register today here or here. If you can’t attend Thursday evening, go ahead and register because the event will be available to view at your convenience.

• Primary Music Workshop Jan 14, 10AM – 1:30 Marietta East Stake Center. Excellent ideas and teaching by guest Sharla Dance. See poster below.

• CHURCH CHOIR FESTIVAL UNG – A great opportunity to sing as a choir representing our church. There will be several joint pieces to sing alongside other denominations and the University of North GA Choirs. The culminating event will be 26th Feb 3PM at the Dahlonega Baptist Church (1:30 call time).

There will be 4 practices before the event at the stake center at 7 (*unless otherwise indicated) on Jan 29, Feb 5, Feb 12 (*1:30 in Dahlonega), Feb 19. Music will be provided. Contact coalstakemusic@gmail.com if you would like to participate. It’s a great experience. NEED COMMITMENT BEFORE JAN 9th.

• Feb 12th ‘MUSIC COACHING’ 6:30 – 7:30 & ‘MUSIC FOR WARD CHOIR – SIGHT READING SESSION’ from 7:30-8 at the Stake Center. Singing, Conducting, Accompanying for all interested in the first hour. Sight singing from 7:30-8. Would you like to help or commit to come? Questions? Please let Sister Dean know what you are interested in. Email coalstakemusic@gmail.com

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Other Interesting Sections of the Newsletter Include:

– Suggested Songs & Hymns of “Come Follow Me”

– Guess the Hymn by Clues “??? Name That Hymn ???”

– Read about “Making Music” at Church

– Enjoy Videos and Audios in “Watch & Listen”

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Singing the Song of Redeeming Love

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Twice in Alma 5, Alma mentions ‘singing the song of redeeming love’ (verses 9, 26).

Whether or not Alma sang in the Zarahemla Tabernacle choir, he did know what it meant to sing as his soul sang with joy and goodness on many occaisons.

But what about our lives? Maybe we praise God, not just in singing, but in how we live. Choir directors will instruct their choir to sing the songs so that our testimonies shine through. Choir members sing their testimony, not only in their musical presentation but in their lives.

There was a young girl many years ago who was involved in a high school speech contest. For those not attending the contest, later that day she gave a second rendition of her perfectly memorized speech all about avoiding pre-marital relations. She proceeded to laugh about how she did not really believe that message but that she was able to convince the judges she did. She, unfortunately, did not live her life true to the ‘testimony/speech’ she bore that day.

Alma, though, lived the life, walked the walk and dedicated his life to those things he testified of. Even later, in his recounting of his conversion to his son Helaman (Alma 36:22), he spoke again of angels singing and praising their God and longing to be with them. He wanted to be in the choir!!! Was that the ‘song of redeeming love’ he referred to in Chapter 5?

Do we “Sing the Song of Redeeming Love” each day in our lives by the way we live?

Taken from the Scripture Plus App.

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