New Summer Worship Time
9:00 AM beginning June 22nd

We will move our worship time during the summer to 9:00AM beginning Sunday, June 22nd through Labor Day weekend. Our summer liturgy will have a more “informal” summer structure inviting increased congregational participation through singing and worship. While the choir will not be meeting through the summer, Linda DeGuzman is planning musician and choral offerings. With our earlier worship time and relaxed worship liturgy we hope members and friends will find summer worship refreshing.

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Music at Concordia

Sing a joyful song to the Lord! Praise the Lord with the sound of trumpets! This Easter season made these Biblical texts a reality at Concordia. We had no trumpets, but the sound of instruments resonated in praise to the risen Lord on each of the Sundays of Easter. The choir sang many special anthems on Easter and during the Easter season.

In the April newsletter we focused on the members of the instrumental ensemble, the “Of Note” and
others. Thanks to all of them who provided such lovely music for the worship at Concordia.

The “Of Note” is a fairly new group at Concordia, but the Senior Choir has been a part of the worship for many years. In the next few months we will introduce you to the members of the Senior Choir, with a little different twist.

This month, we introduce you to one of our newest members, Cindy.

“My musical experience began at age 5 with private piano lessons and vocalizing with the Little Singers choir at the Vermont Street United Methodist Church in Quincy, Illinois. I played piano into high school, and also fiddled with the violin for three years in elementary school. I've always enjoyed group singing. I sang in all the age-appropriate church choirs until I graduated from high school and then was an occasional guest member of the adult choir while home on college breaks. We members of Kappa Delta sorority at Monmouth College (Monmouth, IL) frequently had group sings back in those carefree days.

I sing in the car (we had family sings in the car growing up, but now I don't own one), but not in the shower. And while I have always participated in group sing alongs on school buses, for some reason no one joins in on the CTA. So I limit my bus sings to Olivia's field trips, but she hasn't asked me to chaperone any field trips lately.

I volunteer on my neighborhood park's advisory council, at my local community garden and in my neighborhood association, and at Olivia's school. I returned to work a year ago in the law department of the Chicago Board of Education. We don't sing there. But I'm happy for the opportunity to sing with the Concordia choir. It's a fun group. Come join in...the music's fine.”
— Cindy

Tune in next month to meet a new choir member and for more music news.

† The Concordia Cross design appears throughout the church sanctuary in the architecture and worship furnishings. It is called the "Budded Cross" because of the unique design of each arm: budded flowers just before they bloom. This cross has come to symbolize the Christian on their journey of growth in faith, like flowers growing but not yet bloomed.