Palm Sunday! Yeah!!! I get new palms to place over my door. This year pastor has the choir enter during the first hymn waving palm branches. The sanctuary is fuller than usual. Our tech people are in place. Our narrator is ready. The candle lighting girls have their lighters and snuffers (we will extinguish candles until they are all out and we exit the sanctuary in darkness and quiet). My heart prays for people attending. Lord, be present. Touch lives.
We move through the children's story, the offering, the prayer. Then it is time. I feel like praying "Lord, into your hands I commit this music." We stand for the first song. I am amazed at the sound pouring from the choir! It is amazing, confident, meditative, well pronounced. I can move past helping some trouble part find their note to eliciting expression from the singers. This is good.
Slowly we make our way through each scene. Kiel has videoed his friends playing the various roles of Jesus, Judas, Pilate, Peter, etc. They found creative ways to portray each scene using little in the way of props. The story comes alive in unexpected ways. Everyone is drawn in. The narrator sets up the scene, the actors act, the narrator explains, we sing. It is moving like clockwork. No need for restarts due to bad entrances or anything even remotely like that. From beginning to end, a professional job, and well sung. Thank God for his grace and these singers for their faithfulness.
At the end of service, people are reticent to leave. They need time to process it all. Yes. There is much to think about. For me too.
We move through the children's story, the offering, the prayer. Then it is time. I feel like praying "Lord, into your hands I commit this music." We stand for the first song. I am amazed at the sound pouring from the choir! It is amazing, confident, meditative, well pronounced. I can move past helping some trouble part find their note to eliciting expression from the singers. This is good.
Slowly we make our way through each scene. Kiel has videoed his friends playing the various roles of Jesus, Judas, Pilate, Peter, etc. They found creative ways to portray each scene using little in the way of props. The story comes alive in unexpected ways. Everyone is drawn in. The narrator sets up the scene, the actors act, the narrator explains, we sing. It is moving like clockwork. No need for restarts due to bad entrances or anything even remotely like that. From beginning to end, a professional job, and well sung. Thank God for his grace and these singers for their faithfulness.
At the end of service, people are reticent to leave. They need time to process it all. Yes. There is much to think about. For me too.
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