Music Programs

Notes on the Notes – November 17, 2013

This week’s theme: Change-makers with Vision/Celebration of Volunteers-Serving our church and community This week’s scripture: Isaiah 65: 17-25 This week’s music: “We are the Church”  “I am the church! You are the church! We are the church together! All who follow Jesus, all around the world, yes, we’re the church together!” This song was written […]

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Join the Choir for Christmas!

Christmas is just around the corner and the Worship Choir is starting to practice music for the Advent/Christmas season.  Practices are on Thursday evenings from 7:30-9:30 p.m. starting November 14th.  If you would like to sing with the choir for the special music of the season, we’ll see you on Thursday!

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Notes on the Notes – November 10, 2013

This week’s theme:  Now to Eternity – Telling the Stories This week’s scripture:  Psalm 145: 1-5, 17-21 “Come and Find the Quiet Centre” (VU #374)  “Come and find the quiet centre in the crowded life we lead, find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed:  clear the chaos and the […]

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Notes on the Notes – November 3, 2013

This week’s scripture reading:  Luke 19:1-10 This week’s music: “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” (VU #651) – “Guide me, O though great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land.  I am weak, but thou art mighty, hold me with thy powerful hand.  Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more, […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 27, 2013

   This week’s theme:  A People of Faith This week’s guest:  Rev. Dr. Lovett Weems This week’s scripture readings:  Habakkuk 2:1-4; Romans 1:16-17 This week’s music: “Jesus Came a Child like me” (VU 583) – Walter Farquharson, a hymn writer and a former moderator of the United Church of Canada, submitted this new children’s hymn for […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 20, 2013

  This week’s guest: Diane Haglund – United Church archivist This week’s scripture reading: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 This week’s music:   “Let Us Build a House (All Are Welcome) (MV #1) – “Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 13, 2013

“As Those of Old Their First-fruits Brought” (VU #518) – We open our worship today with this Thanksgiving hymn, from Ten New Stewardship Hymns (1961) by Frank von Christierson.  The tune, FOREST GREEN, is a traditional English folk tune arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams for the English Hymnal (1906). “As those of old their first-fruits brought of […]

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Notes on the Notes – October 6, 2013

This week’s reading: 2 Timothy 1: 1-14 This week’s music: “All Who Hunger”  (VU #460) –  Born in 1955, Sylvia Dunstan attributes her love of song to her grandparents, who kept song alive in the family and entrusted Sylvia’s formal musical education to one of the nuns at the local convent. Sylvia began writing songs […]

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Joyful Noise Start-up – Sunday, Sept. 29

   We are pleased to announce that Chanel and Sheryl will be the new leaders of the Joyful Noise!        All children who like to sing are invited to join them on Sunday mornings at 9:45 a.m. downstairs in the choir room starting Sunday, Sept. 29.  The more, the merrier!

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Joyful Noise Director Wanted!

We are looking for a director for the Joyful Noise, a choir for children 5-12. No experience necessary but a great sense of fun is! For more info they can contact Sharon wpucwpg@mymts.net or Laura lasteidl@shaw.ca.

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Music programs at WPUC

WPUC has music programs for all ages!   THE WORSHIP CHOIR – Do you enjoy singing and want to have fun with a great group of people who share your love of music?  Our adult choir, under the direction of  Laura Steidl, practices on Thursday evenings and leads the music in worship each Sunday.   The first […]

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Notes on the Notes – September 29, 2013

This week’s scripture readings:                                                                       1 Timothy 6:6-19, Luke 16:19-31 This week’s music: “All Things Bright and Beautiful”      (VU #291) – The text, from Cecil Frances Alexander’s Hymns for Little Children (1846), is based on the phrase “Maker of heaven and earth” in the Apostles’ Creed.  The new words for verse four are particularly apt in the […]

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Notes on the Notes – September 22, 2013

This week’s Readings:  Psalm 79:1-9,                 1 Timothy 2:1-7 This week’s music: “We Praise You, Creator” (VU #293) – This is a hymn of exuberant celebration: “We praise you, Creator, in earth, sea, and sky:  our Ruler, our Maker, our Sovereign most high.  Each new generation lifts voices in praise;  how good your creation, how gracious […]

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Notes on the Notes – September 15, 2013

Today’s  scripture:  1 Timothy 1:12-17 – Paul’s call to serve Luke 15:1-10 – The parables of the persistent shepherd and persistent housewife    Today’s music:  “Come in, Come in and Sit Down” (VU #395) – This family song became known to United Church congregations in the arrangement made by Darryl Nixon for Songs for a Gospel People (1987).  […]

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Notes on the Notes – June 23, 2013

This week’s Theme: Faith Scripture: Galatians 3:23-29 This week’s Music – “As Comes the Breath of Spring”  (VU #373) – As comes the breath of spring with light and mirth and song, so does your Spirit bring new days brave, free, and strong.  You come with thrill of life to chase hence winter’s breath, to […]

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