Dear friends,
Thank you for helping Christmas happen early this year for me and for so many people from our community. Your engaging, heartfelt singing and sharing helped us all unite around a most compelling and inspiring message. Your remarkable performance did not happen by accident. It happened because of the investment that each of you made in the process that enabled us to come together in a healthy and whole way. Thank you for offering the gift of your body, mind, spirit, and voice to our holy work-- particularly during this busy time of the year. I want to apologize to two of our tenors whose names I somehow managed to leave out of the program. Kyle Manley and Mike Prokop-- we are so grateful that you joined us this season, and I hope you will come again in the new year. (Thank you both for offering me grace for this unfortunate oversight. As every choir director knows, neglect of tenors is the absolute worst possible error! ;) ) Notes and cards and e-mails continue to come celebrating what you did on Sunday. My heart continues to sing as well.
All are welcome to sing with us for the 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Christmas Eve worship services of Lessons and Carols here at First-Plymouth. Rehearsal is this Wednesday, beginning at 7:00 p.m. (please note the time!). This rehearsal will include a complete run through of the service in the sanctuary so that the TV broadcast can be timed and rehearsed effectively. Call time on Christmas Eve will be (robed and ready) at 6:15 p.m. in the Choir Room. We will have a beautiful evening together (and, by the way, my mom and dad will be here, so we have to sing really well!). Soup will be served between services. If you are in Abendmusik Chorus and would like to join for Christmas Eve, please send me a quick e-mail so I can prepare a spot for you. If you are in Plymouth Choir, please let us know if you will NOT be here, if you have not already communicated that.
Grace and peace, and many thanks for all you do to make it feel like Christmas in Lincoln and at First-Plymouth.
TT
