Musical Notes

Chancel Choir rehearsals will soon start for the fall season. We’d love to have you join our First Lutheran choir family! Look for more details coming soon. In the meantime, consider these reasons to join the church choir!

Reasons to join the Church Choir:
(compiled from various anecdotal sources)

• The offering plate is never passed to the choir.
• Being at rehearsal every Wednesday evening definitely beats watching sitcom reruns on TV.
• Rehearsals are weekly which means that, for those few hours, you will significantly reduce your risk of contracting tendonitis from non-stop operation of a television remote or computer mouse.
• It’s exactly like singing in the shower, except you’re wearing a robe and people are actually listening.
• Sitting with a group in the chancel every Sunday morning is excellent practice in case you’re ever called for jury duty.
• No matter how packed church is on Easter or Christmas, you’ll be assured of having a great seat in the sanctuary.
• Because there’s a clock in the back of the sanctuary, you’ll be the first to know when it’s 11:30 a.m. each Sunday.
• Your favorite movie of all time? Sister Act.
• Because you wear a choir robe every Sunday, you are liberated from the challenging task of finding clothes that match properly. you don’t have to dress up – the robe hides a lot.
• From your special vantage point every Sunday, in which you view the entire congregation from the choir seats, you will develop interesting new hobbies. Among these is a little guessing game called “Who’s Praying, Who’s Sleeping.”
• On the other hand, sitting prominently in full view of the congregation on a weekly basis makes it much less likely that you will give in to a chronic lack of sleep although it has been known to happen!
• If you think your singing in the shower sounds good now, just wait till you’ve been singing with us for a few weeks.
• Singing in a choir is one of the few activities for men that does not require complex electronics or expensive power tools. This could be good for the household budget.
• For the fitness buffs, singing in the choir is not only “heart healthy,” but it’s “soul healthy” as well. There are no monthly membership fees, and it’s a lot easier on the knees than jogging.
• If you think you’ve “done everything there is to do,” and there are no great challenges in life, try singing with us and STAYING ON PITCH.
• When people ask whether or not you’ve been behaving yourself, you can say with the utmost sincerity, “Hey! I’m a Choir Member!”

— David McNease