Thoughts on music and how it can deepen our relationship with God.
Join us for our Children’s Music Retreat on Saturday, August 18, from 9:00am-12:30pm at St. Peter’s. This is a great chance to give choir a try with almost no commitment. The Details Children, (rising K-5th graders), will have opportunities to worship God, sing songs, play together, share snacks, create art, and show off what they learned. We’ll spend time…
Alleluia! Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia! It’s that time of year when we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection and triumph over death. In Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands, one of our great Easter hymns, Martin Luther writes: Die Schrift hat verkuendigt das, Wie ein Tod den andern frass. This literally translates to: Scripture has proclaimed…
The next concert in the 2017-2018 Musical Arts Concert Series at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Neffsville, will feature contemporary Christian folk/rock artist, Jonathan Rundman, on Saturday, March 3, 2018, at 7pm. Born and raised in the isolated Finnish-American communities of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Jonathan Rundman has been writing songs and performing across the country…
Lent is in full swing and we’re rapidly approaching the center of the church year, Holy Week. Late in Lent this lectionary year we hear many readings from the gospel of John. Often cited as being the more difficult and ‘heady’ gospel, John emphasizes the depths of Jesus’ authority and personhood where the synoptic…
The next concert in the 2017-2018 Musical Arts Concert Series at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Neffsville, will be a woodwind concert by the Manor Winds Quintet, on Saturday, January 13, 2018, at 7pm. Manor Winds is a Lancaster-based ensemble comprised of five musicians who come together to rehearse in a historic farm house on…
The next concert in the 2017-2018 Musical Arts Concert Series at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Neffsville, will be a handbell concert by the Hershey Handbell Ensemble, on Friday, December 1, 2017, at 7pm. Please note the day as it differs from the regular concert series schedule. Formed in 2004, this auditioned community handbell ensemble…
With apologies to President Abraham Lincoln, I commandeer this famous phrase from his Gettysburg Address which he gave just a few miles from St. Peter’s. As the program year starts up, choirs rehearse, our worship is enlivened and the general pace of things picks up, I can’t help but think about this turn of phrase…
Children and Youth Music Retreat – August 19th, 9a-3p All children ages rising K-5th grade who are interested in making music and being with church friends are invited to come to St. Peter’s on August 19th from 9:00a-3:00p for a Children and Youth Music Retreat. Children will have opportunities to worship God, sing songs, play…
I write this having come to the end of a fulfilling week in Minneapolis, MN at the 2017 National Conference of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. We have gathered together as a group of people who care deeply about leading people in proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ through song. There have been opportunities…
St. Peter’s and St. Paul Lutheran Churches are excited to host the Abington Children’s Choirs for a weekend of music May 6 & 7. The vocal and bell youth choirs from Abington Presbyterian Church outside Philadelphia will perform at St. Peter’s in Neffsville on Saturday, May 6, at 7pm and at St. Paul in Lititz…
