Once again we are coming to the end of another year of singing and soon the Choir will be having a little break from the regular Thursday evening rehearsal and the weekly letter I send to them with all the instructions to remind them of what to do on each Sundaly!!

We always, during the course of a year producece something rather special to reflect our praise of the Lord and our love of singing. Last year. as an act of worship, we sang The Crucifixion by Stainer. This year on July I8th. the Choir will be singing 'Ascribe unto the Lord by Samuel Sebastin Wesley. This is one of rhe 'great’ anthems of the choral repertory and a fitting one, not only to end our year of singing but to celebrate the 200th anniversary of S.S. Wesley’s birth. I have invited some of the singers who sang with us last year and one ot two others to augment our own Choir for the musical offering.

The anthem is full of contrast,drama,picture painting in music and great choral writing and is very enjoyable to listen to. It is very much to do with the power of Faith and the ever present power of our God in our lives. I have to say a big thank you all of the Choir and also to Brian, our Minister for his constant support in our work as a choir. ‘Ascribe’ is a very difficult work to sing and everyone has worked tremendously hard in its preparation.

Many thanks to Phillip Goodwin who will be playing the organ for the services whilst Celia and I are away on holiday in August.