On October 24, 2010, thirteen of our youth attended a Chorister’s Guild choir workshop led by Anton Armstrong of St. Olaf College at St. Andrew United Methodist in Plano, Texas.  That means our Chapel Choir sang with 21 churches – over 600 singers!  What a GREAT experience!  Check out pictures below!

The 2010 Summer Youth Musical is Meet Me in St. Louis!

Tickets are available from cast members, on Sunday morning, and in the church office during the week.

Performances are:

• Thursday, August 5, 7:00pm
• Friday, August 6, 7:00pm
• Saturday, August 7, 7:00pm
• Sunday, August 8, 2:00pm

Tickets:

• $10 per person for ages 11 and up
• $8 per person for ages 10 and under

As always, we’ll have ICE CREAM for intermission!  You can make a monetary donation or bring homemade ice cream to ANY of the performances!  For more information, contact Carla Rouse at jcrousehouse@att.net or 689-9986.

The 2010 Summer Youth Musical has been chosen.  It will be Meet Me in St. Louis.  Youth who have completed grades 6-12 by June 2010 are encouraged to audition for a role in this fun musical.  Auditions are set for:

• Thursday, April 22, 2010 from 5:00-8:00pm
• Sunday, April 25, 2010 from 1:00-4:00pm

For more information, contact the Youth Director
Jeff Ginn (jginn@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x230)

“Next time you gaze at . . . the Last Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci, note the ripple effect: Christ in the
center and the ebb and flow of movement as it ripples out from Christ past the disciples – all grouped in threes, their posture and positions accentuating that ripple effect.”

-Lois Gagne

Although our Music Ministry at FUMC is not a Da Vince masterpiece, God uses it to create a similar ripple effect in many lives. Your music produces vibrations and resonations far beyond one’s imaginations.

Thank you for your “waves.”and to all who participate in the Music Ministry of our church, especially during Holy
Week. Thank you for your ripple effect of action, passion, and Divine Blessing!

If you ever doubted the beneficial results from participation in music, here is once again, scientific fact that it does. These quotes are from a recent neurological conference in San Diego.

“Music making is a multisensory experience activating links to several parts of the brain.”

– Gottfriend Schlaug
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

“New studies show that musical training enhances the brain’s ability to do other things. The trained brain gets better at detecting patterns in sounds, so that musicians are better at picking out the voice of a friend in a noisy restaurant. Musical experience improves abilities important in daily life. Singing and playing an instrument helps youngsters better process speech in noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice. When people first learn to talk and when they talk to babies they often use musical patterns in their speech. Music training is not only beneficial for processing music stimuli. We’ve found that years of music training may also improve how sounds are processed for language and emotion.  The very responses that are enhanced in musicians are deficient in clinical populations such as children with developmental dyslexia and autism.”

– Nina Kraus
Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory Director, Northwestern University

“New studies show that music doesn’t involve just hot spots in the brain, but large swaths on both sides of the brain.

– Aniruddh D. Patel
The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego

February 21, 2010 Youth-led worship service with Rev. Paul Goodrich’s sermon based upon Mark 4:35-41.

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