Hello dear ones,
We will not be meeting on Nov. 12 our usual choir night. We are rescheduling that practice to Mon. Nov. 9. Praise band at 6pm and choir starting at 7pm as usual. Thanks and God bless!
Rhonda
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Holiday Season Scheduling/Cantata
Hello all,
We're gearing up for the Christmas season in the SOJ Music Ministries.
We will start instrumental practices this week for the cantata on Thurs. nights at 6:15-6:50. The last portion of praise band will be dedicated to this.
Cantata Choir practice is on Thurs. nights from 7-8pm. It's not too late to join yet.
Our Sat. practices will be coming up and will include the cantata choir, narrators and the instrumentalists:
Sat. Nov. 21 10am-12
Sat. Dec. 5 10am -12
Our Christmas party will be on Dec. 5 at 7pm. Miss Dawn Theurer has graciously offered her home for this event. This is open to all of music ministry and we are asked to bring heavy hors d'oeuvres and our own drinks. Great to time to fellowship.
Thurs. Dec. 10 we plan to present our Christmas Cantata at the Weddington Park (by the Siskey Y) Nursing Home at 7pm.
Sun. Dec. 13 at the 11am service will be the Christmas Cantata "Only Love" invite friends and relatives.
Dec. 19 we have been invited to sing some of our Christmas Cantata selections at the Billy Graham "live nativity". We will not have narration in this presentation. We will also have time to do some carols as well as possibly doing some of your Christmas Eve selections if you'd like.
Sun. Dec. 20 the choir will be off for church services, but we have been invited to Carol at the Monroe Soup Kitchen. This will be a great outreach, but can be done with a small group if folks are already out of town. We have been asked to collect toiletries for small gift bags for these folks. You can bring anything you've collected to choir or instrumental practices between now and Dec.
Thurs. Dec. 24 Christmas Eve services -if you'd like to sing a special offering for the Christmas Eve services let me know what music you're doing so I can get it to Ian. We need to set up times that you and Ian can get together to prepare these pieces. You don't have to be in choir to participate in this offering.
Fri. Dec. 25 Christmas Day- Paul Thomas has again agreed to do the Christmas Service for us this year. He will have some special music for anyone who would like to participate again. I'll let you know when his practice to prepare this music will be. This is also open to anyone who would like to participate, not just choir members.
Thank you all for sharing your gifts and spreading the love of God in our telling of the Christmas Story!
God bless,
Rhonda
We're gearing up for the Christmas season in the SOJ Music Ministries.
We will start instrumental practices this week for the cantata on Thurs. nights at 6:15-6:50. The last portion of praise band will be dedicated to this.
Cantata Choir practice is on Thurs. nights from 7-8pm. It's not too late to join yet.
Our Sat. practices will be coming up and will include the cantata choir, narrators and the instrumentalists:
Sat. Nov. 21 10am-12
Sat. Dec. 5 10am -12
Our Christmas party will be on Dec. 5 at 7pm. Miss Dawn Theurer has graciously offered her home for this event. This is open to all of music ministry and we are asked to bring heavy hors d'oeuvres and our own drinks. Great to time to fellowship.
Thurs. Dec. 10 we plan to present our Christmas Cantata at the Weddington Park (by the Siskey Y) Nursing Home at 7pm.
Sun. Dec. 13 at the 11am service will be the Christmas Cantata "Only Love" invite friends and relatives.
Dec. 19 we have been invited to sing some of our Christmas Cantata selections at the Billy Graham "live nativity". We will not have narration in this presentation. We will also have time to do some carols as well as possibly doing some of your Christmas Eve selections if you'd like.
Sun. Dec. 20 the choir will be off for church services, but we have been invited to Carol at the Monroe Soup Kitchen. This will be a great outreach, but can be done with a small group if folks are already out of town. We have been asked to collect toiletries for small gift bags for these folks. You can bring anything you've collected to choir or instrumental practices between now and Dec.
Thurs. Dec. 24 Christmas Eve services -if you'd like to sing a special offering for the Christmas Eve services let me know what music you're doing so I can get it to Ian. We need to set up times that you and Ian can get together to prepare these pieces. You don't have to be in choir to participate in this offering.
Fri. Dec. 25 Christmas Day- Paul Thomas has again agreed to do the Christmas Service for us this year. He will have some special music for anyone who would like to participate again. I'll let you know when his practice to prepare this music will be. This is also open to anyone who would like to participate, not just choir members.
Thank you all for sharing your gifts and spreading the love of God in our telling of the Christmas Story!
God bless,
Rhonda
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Coming Choir Retreat and Fall Season
I'd like to invite anyone interested in praising God in song to consider joining the Worship Choir this fall. Our goal is to use our God-given gifts to help lead worship and point to Jesus. We believe that singing the word of the Lord sets scripture in our hearts. We lift each other up as well as lifting our voices to God, with prayer, song and fellowship. If you'd like to join us in sharing your love of Christ, others and music, please contact choir director Rhonda Mauney at mauney03@aol.com or (704)995-7253. We meet on Thurs. nights at 7pm starting Aug. 27. Starting after Sept. 17 we will meet for Cantata practice from 7-8pm and worship choir from 8-9pm.
We'd also like to invite anyone interested in joining Worship Choir or just the Christmas Cantata Choir to join us for our annual choir retreat. This will be at Camp Kinard, www.sclrc.com/campkinard.html in SC the weekend of Sept. 18-20. We use this time to worship, fellowship, eat and SING! There's hiking, volleyball, bonfires, etc. This retreat is one of the things that I believe keeps our group together as a family unit year after year. God is a God of relationships and He wants us to encourage each other on our walk with Him. We'd love to have you.
Another ministry that we have is the Sunday Morning Praise Band. We currently are meeting on Thurs. nights at 6pm over the summer. We may reconsider this schedule in the fall. We are always looking for others who have the gift of playing an instrument that would like to help lead worship service. Our worship services are very music driven, and any new instrument we can blend in will add depth. It's a wonderful way to serve God and others by sharing our time and talents. I'm also looking for folks who would be interested in accompanying our Christmas Cantata this year. One of the things that makes it so special every year is the orchestral accompaniment. I would love to have a trumpet, saxophone, oboe, flute, violin, cello, drums, percussion, etc. etc. Please get in touch with me if you are being led to participate in any of these opportunities. God walks among us as we honor him with songs of worship, whether we are just practicing to offer Him our best or leading an actual service. Come share the blessing with us.
Peace,
Rhonda Mauney
Director of Music
mauney03@aol.com
(704)995-7253
We'd also like to invite anyone interested in joining Worship Choir or just the Christmas Cantata Choir to join us for our annual choir retreat. This will be at Camp Kinard, www.sclrc.com/campkinard.html in SC the weekend of Sept. 18-20. We use this time to worship, fellowship, eat and SING! There's hiking, volleyball, bonfires, etc. This retreat is one of the things that I believe keeps our group together as a family unit year after year. God is a God of relationships and He wants us to encourage each other on our walk with Him. We'd love to have you.
Another ministry that we have is the Sunday Morning Praise Band. We currently are meeting on Thurs. nights at 6pm over the summer. We may reconsider this schedule in the fall. We are always looking for others who have the gift of playing an instrument that would like to help lead worship service. Our worship services are very music driven, and any new instrument we can blend in will add depth. It's a wonderful way to serve God and others by sharing our time and talents. I'm also looking for folks who would be interested in accompanying our Christmas Cantata this year. One of the things that makes it so special every year is the orchestral accompaniment. I would love to have a trumpet, saxophone, oboe, flute, violin, cello, drums, percussion, etc. etc. Please get in touch with me if you are being led to participate in any of these opportunities. God walks among us as we honor him with songs of worship, whether we are just practicing to offer Him our best or leading an actual service. Come share the blessing with us.
Peace,
Rhonda Mauney
Director of Music
mauney03@aol.com
(704)995-7253
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Choir Retreat 2009 Sept. 18-20
Greetings to all of you who like to worship the Lord in song! We will be kicking off our Fall Choir Season with our annual Choir Retreat Sept. 18-20 (Fri-Sun) at Camp Kinard in SC. Here is the link for the camp: http://sclrc.com/campkinard.html . We went to this camp last year for the first time and were blessed by the nice grounds, food, and facilities. This is a time for us to SING praises, eat, SING, have devotions, SING, fellowship, SING, have fun and let the Spirit move among us. This is a time to let the Lord take us to a quiet place and renew our souls! A time of re-energizing for the new season and a reminder of why we lift our voices in praise. There is a lot of worship and laughter. We also reveal the new Christmas Cantata on the retreat- something we all look forward to every year! If you would like to join us for choir next year, or even just for the cantata you are welcome to come along. If you are interested in making the retreat with us you may talk to me (Rhonda Mauney- mauney03@aol.com) or Theresa Cogar.
All of us in Music Ministry are God's servants who want to make an offering of our time and our talents through worship, choir, praise band, bell choir, etc. We want to give back to the Lord what He has first given us. We want to point others to Him. We would love for you to come along side us as worship leaders this fall.
Glory to God,
Rhonda
All of us in Music Ministry are God's servants who want to make an offering of our time and our talents through worship, choir, praise band, bell choir, etc. We want to give back to the Lord what He has first given us. We want to point others to Him. We would love for you to come along side us as worship leaders this fall.
Glory to God,
Rhonda
Outdoor Service Sun. June 7
Hi all,
Hope you can join us for our first outdoor service of the summer this Sun. We will be praising God in our serenity garden at 8:30am on Sun. morning with an old fashioned Gospel service. Come feel the Spirit move among us!
Blessings,
Rhonda Mauney
Hope you can join us for our first outdoor service of the summer this Sun. We will be praising God in our serenity garden at 8:30am on Sun. morning with an old fashioned Gospel service. Come feel the Spirit move among us!
Blessings,
Rhonda Mauney
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Practice cancelled april 16
Hi all! I'm still out of commission and Ian has a funeral this evening- so no practice tonight. Praise band or choir. We'll still sing sun. at 8:30 service----Where Still Waters Flow.
God bless you all,
Rhonda
God bless you all,
Rhonda
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Greetings Dear Ones!
Here at Spirit of Joy, we would like to reach out and welcome all of you in Christ's love. Here in the music ministry we want to focus on worship by being "Worship Leaders,' not worship performers. What God wants more than anything else is genuine contact with us! Jesus will go wherever He is invited. Acts 8:35 commands us to, "open our mouths and share Christ." We can do this with music and song.
The Bible tells us that, "If we have breath at all... we are to be praising God with it!" The second commandment tells us to "Love your neighbors as you love yourselves." In essence, to reach out to our neighbors. Our God is a God of relationships and music is another way for us to relate to each other in worship of Him. It helps to unify the "body of Christ."
In our music ministry we like to use music as a tool - not as something to gratify us. It is meant to lift people up as close to heaven as possible. Music is a language for us to employ in lifting up the Lord! It is good for us to worship (sing, pray, listen to or play music as an offering). Worship softens our hearts. The way to a person's head, after all, is through their heart. Worship through music helps us to FOCUS! It reminds us that this is about God... not us! Worship prepares us to hear what God wants to tell us.
If you are interested in coming alongside us and joining in Spirit of Joy's music ministry, please contact me at mauney03@aol.com.
In Him,
Rhonda Mauney
Director of Music Ministry
The Bible tells us that, "If we have breath at all... we are to be praising God with it!" The second commandment tells us to "Love your neighbors as you love yourselves." In essence, to reach out to our neighbors. Our God is a God of relationships and music is another way for us to relate to each other in worship of Him. It helps to unify the "body of Christ."
In our music ministry we like to use music as a tool - not as something to gratify us. It is meant to lift people up as close to heaven as possible. Music is a language for us to employ in lifting up the Lord! It is good for us to worship (sing, pray, listen to or play music as an offering). Worship softens our hearts. The way to a person's head, after all, is through their heart. Worship through music helps us to FOCUS! It reminds us that this is about God... not us! Worship prepares us to hear what God wants to tell us.
If you are interested in coming alongside us and joining in Spirit of Joy's music ministry, please contact me at mauney03@aol.com.
In Him,
Rhonda Mauney
Director of Music Ministry
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Welcome!
Welcome to Spirit of Joy's Music Ministry blog, Making a Joyful Noise!
"O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation!
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise!
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods."(Psalm 95:1-3 AMP)
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