Music

Gena Churchill, our organist

Music plays an important role in our weekly service. Included in each service is a prelude, three hymns, doxology, musical meditation, and a postlude.

Our harpsichord is an 18th century reproduction built by a former member and donated to our church. We also have a grand piano and a fine pipe organ which are used in solo and duet pieces.

We don't use separate hymnbooks and prayer books. Instead we have an all-purpose book in our pews which contains responsive readings, prayers, quotaions from many of the world's religions; African American, Jewish, Native American, Japanese, Buddhist, and Hindu, and hymns, some traditional and others taken from social movments and many diverse cultures. The title of this book is "Singing the Living Tradition", published in 1993.

Music is very important to our celebration of life. Periodically we have services that are devoted entirely to music with musicians coming from many other towns to share with us.

Baba Kevin and Ngoma
drumming on Martin Luther King Day