Most of you know Nancy Jenkins and I (the pester) have enjoyed singing with the Sunrise UMC choir at Christmas and other presentations over the years. Doyle Combs, the music director, was gracious enough to have us sing.
In addition, Doyle’s wife Rhonda coordinates the Songspinners group which Nancy and I enjoy.
Doyle was dismissed as the music director at Sunrise last December; many people have left Sunrise. They started a new work called Heartsong Church at 5660 N Academy, next to the Silver Pond Chinese Restaurant.
I have received an invitation from Heartsong Church to preach and sing for them Sunday August 26th. They have invited the entire church to come up and have a combined service at 10am.
Heartsong’s worship and format is very similar to ours. We will sing worship choruses; I will sing 3 songs and preach. Lisa will play for the entire service.
For that Sunday, Freedom will not have Sunday School but Ron Campeau will go to the church and open the doors for the 10am service, thinking it best that we not have a Sunday with the doors closed. Ron will meet anyone that attends and handle the worship by CD.
For Freedom’s offering that Sunday, place your offering in an envelope marked “Freedom” or “FBC” and place in the offering at Heartsong. The offering will be at the end of the service (a little different than how we do it)
When we started as a church back in 1988 the encouragement of another church would have been so helpful, and this is our chance to encourage this young church in their endeavor to continue their ministry. Nancy and I greatly enjoyed Doyle’s music ministry and we have a strong connection with Doyle and Rhonda for their vision of gospel music as a strong basis for the ministry of a church. We’re Baptists and proud of it, but any differences between us are not so great that we cannot enjoy this unprecedented opportunity to gather together to celebrate worship with this new church. It's not like we do this every Sunday (in fact we've never done anything like this before) so why not branch out and meet some folks that are doing something very similar to what we did back in '88?
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