Youth Choir

The youth choir at my church has been part of the music ministry for a veeeery long time. I can't say exactly how many years because I really don't know, but I'll round off to about 20 years. I participated in youth choir from when I was in 7th grade until my senior year of high school. We would go every summer on a mission trip. That was something that I really looked forward to. In 2002, my sister and I became the directors of the youth choir. She handles the music direction and I assist her in teaching the notes with the piano and coming up with the choreography. We pretty much work together in picking out the musicals and just organizing everything. It's been great seeing our little brother participate in and enjoy something that we also participated in when we were his age (it wasn't that long ago). I really enjoy being a part of it for many reasons. One of them being that music is such a big part of my life and always has been. God gives us gifts and we have to use them. For the past six years we can really say that we've been blessed. Even when there have been times that we lose motivation. It might be because someone made a comment we didn't like or a youth decides not to participate, but we are quickly reminded why we're doing this. We are allowing God to use us to minister to others through music. On Tuesday, the youth choir is leaving on their annual mission trip. At the beginning of the year we had decided that we were going to New Orleans, but God had other plans. He wanted to keep us here in Florida. We will be going to Tampa, Sarasota, Naples, and Gainesville (not necessarily in that order). I'm really excited to see what great things God is going to do this coming week. The youth will be doing some community service along with evangelism and they have a concert in every church we stop at. They've really shown a lot of excitement about sharing the gospel. I know God is going to use us and I just ask that you pray for every youth and adult that will be going on this trip. That God may start preparing our hearts and preparing the hearts of each and every person that we will be meeting. Also, that He may keep us safe and give peace of mind to the parents that are letting their kids go out without them for the first time. I would like to have all of you pray for the youth, therefore if you're willing to spend some time during the days July 31 - August 6 praying for a youth choir member, let me know and I will give you the name of a youth that you can pray for. Thank you for reading. God Bless!