{"id":503,"date":"2017-05-02T17:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T23:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/?p=503"},"modified":"2017-05-03T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:50:53","slug":"glorious-weekend-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elcablogs.fairnorthdigital.com\/worship\/503\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glorious Weekend of Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Today&#8217;s post is from Ina Berkey in\u00a0Williamsburg, VA.\u00a0This weekend was made possible through a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elca500.org\/about\/grant-programs\/\">ELCA Reformation Anniversary Grant Program<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-504\" src=\"https:\/\/elcablogs.fairnorthdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/04\/Hymn-Festival-Pix-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"252\" \/>On Jan. 28-29, St. Stephen Lutheran Church, along with Saint Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg, VA sponsored a Hymn Festival celebrating the Week of Christian Unity and the 500<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Reformation. The two-day event featured David Cherwien, noted Lutheran organist and composer and Susan Palo Cherwien, hymn text writer and poet.<\/p>\n<p>The festival\u00a0brought together 140 choir members from many denominations throughout the Tidewater (VA) area, which stretches from Richmond to Norfolk.\u00a0 On Saturday the choir rehearsed in the morning and after a catered luncheon attended two workshops. Susan Cherwien presented one workshop about the power of words and poetry in creating text for hymns.\u00a0 David Cherwien presented a workshop which explored creative hymn singing.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon the Festival Choir, under the direction of Dr. Cherwien, led a congregation of over 500 which was made up of members of various churches throughout the Tidewater area. Each hymn and its variations contributed to the theme, \u201cThe Spirit of Transformation,\u201d and was preceded by a reflection written and spoken by Susan Cherwien.\u00a0 The festival ended with prayers for unity and with singing the hymn, \u201cHoly God We Praise Your Name\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For those present, the entire weekend confirmed the statement by former Pope John XXIII that \u201cThe things that unite us are greater than those that divide us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today&#8217;s post is from Ina Berkey in\u00a0Williamsburg, VA.\u00a0This weekend was made possible through a grant from the ELCA Reformation Anniversary Grant Program. &nbsp; On Jan. 28-29, St. Stephen Lutheran Church, along with Saint Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg, VA sponsored a Hymn Festival celebrating the Week of Christian Unity and the 500th anniversary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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