darth_ender said:
I know. It's hard not to brag on my parents, and that's only half the story. He met my mother during a carpool to practice...because she was in it too. I swear it's true!
Wow, you got good singers in your bloodline. You in any choir? I was in my church choir for a couple years until our choir director quit, the choir basically ended. Its a shame, we a had a great choir. They even did a record once. And man, could they do a number on The Hallelujah Chorus. Unfortunately, that did not make it onto the record. But the Battle Hymn Of The Republic did. It almost sounds as good as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, almost. Then sometime it the late 80's the choir began dwindle. I guess older members began to die out and the younger rock and roll generation didn't want to join. When I joined, the choir was a mere shadow of its former self, *sigh* as is the rest of my church. It used to be a classic traditional church. All the men dressed in suits and ties, women wore their Sunday best and some even wore hats(and I am not talking about baseball caps), we sang the old hymns, we read out of the KJV version of the Bible, and the congregation was huge(especially on Easter Sunday). Now you can go there on Sunday in a tee shirt and jeans(I of course never do that), we the NIV version of the Bible. We do Christian Rock in the 10:45 AM contemporary service and and traditional songs at what we call the 'traditional' service at 8:30 AM. The traditional service in the one I attend, most of the people that go to service are elderly. Very few young people attend that service. I have feeling the traditional service won't go on for much longer. When more of the older members die out, they will probably get rid the traditional service. Also during the contemporary service they use a movie screen to put the words to song on and such. It blocks a beautiful old stained glass window we called the Rose Window. It used to be the symbol of our church. It is pictured on the album cover of the record I referred to earlier. The movie screen caused a lot of fights in my church, as did a lot of the changes. Many long time members left. Even combined totally of people that show up to both services isn't anywhere near the number of people we had at the church when I was a child. Like I said, a mere shadow of its former self. If my family didn't go there, and if this wasn't the church I grew up in, I might leave as well. very sad and depressing. Sorry for going on and on like this.