Summer Jam Sessions
By Adfriele Park, Worship Director
Music is one of my favorite ways in which bringing together diversity can result in beautiful unity. Many unique voices and instruments, some adding high notes, some the low notes, some adding harmony, some adding rhythm, all coming together with their beautiful differences, yet singing one song. This is a picture of the body of Christ, and we get to live it out every Sunday as we worship together, lifting up praise together!
As worship director, one of my goals is to provide opportunities for those in our church with musical gifts to express them and grow them in meaningful and worshipful ways. Every summer, we have more time on Sunday mornings, and part of our church’s annual rhythm is to use this time to sing and play music together! Every couple of weeks, we will be having Summer Jam Sessions after the service for about an hour in the sanctuary. I have scheduled 4 Summer Jam sessions this summer: July 12, July 26, August 9, and August 23. Come to one, some, or all of them! This is an opportunity for anyone to come with your voice or instruments and play with the band. Practice your band skills if you’re wanting to join the regular worship team but don’t feel quite ready, or simply come to play your instrument with others for the joy of it in a no-pressure situation!
I also have good news for those of you who, like the psalmist of Psalm 96, want to “sing to the Lord a new song”. This fall, we will host our 3rd annual Arts Night and invite people from our congregation to bless us with their original songs, poems, art, and stories. If you have a song you’ve written or are writing and it would be helpful in the fine-tuning stage to have others hear it or play it with you, bring it to a Summer Jam time!