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worship & music conference
People with ears tuned to the Matthew 25 vision of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) heard plenty of support for the movement woven through this summer’s Worship & Music Conference presented by the Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM), which is a Matthew 25 group.
During the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference held over the past two weeks, Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand has taken 400 already polished singers each week and worked them — worked them hard, at times — to put forth a glorious sound pleasing to the 700 or so people who gathered each week, and pleasing to God, too.
The playing of handbells “is not a one-size-fits-all musical idiom,” said Sandy Eithun, who’s co-directing handbell choirs this week during the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference being held at Montreat Conference Center. “There are places for everyone, and we need everyone.”
Steve Prince, the artist in residence during the two weeks of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference, has taken the accumulative approach with the dozens of students he’s been working with last week and this week.
With the final work by artist-in-residence Steve Prince and his students welcoming everyone gathered in Anderson Auditorium at Montreat Conference Center to “come unto me,” Friday’s worship at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference capped a week of thoughtful, prayerful, community-building worship that put glorious music by people of all ages front and center.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,” the book of Proverbs tells us here, while it’s the beginning of wisdom here.
After teaching about Wisdom literature found in the Book of Proverbs on Thursday, Dr. William Brown turned to the Book of Job that afternoon during an Adult Bible Study class at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference being held this week at Montreat Conference Center.
Worship during the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference being held this week at Montreat Conference Center continues with its pattern of seamless and beautiful liturgy and quality musicianship, the latter provided Thursday by Dr. Tony McNeill on piano and Eric Wall on organ.
Moving on from Creation to the Torah, Dr. William Brown made the case Wednesday that the current struggle to determine what’s concrete in, say, the interpretation of laws under the U.S. Constitution was vexing for folks in Old Testament times as well.
There’s something about holding a pilsner glass full of one’s favorite beer and singing praises to God with more than 100 fellow conference-goers singing right along.
