Children’s Honor Choir, an annual event promoted and planned by the Music and Worship office of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, begins at 4 p.m. Friday, April 13, at Tall Timbers Baptist Conference Center.
ALEXANDRIA – Children’s Honor Choir, an annual
event promoted and planned by the Music and Worship office of the Louisiana
Baptist Convention, begins at 4 p.m. Friday, April 13, at TallTimbers
BaptistConference
Center.
The event concludes with a 1:30 p.m.
concert at the Baptist
Building on Saturday,
April 14.
The children, grades 4-6 were previously
selected by their local church children’s choir leaders. Qualifications for attending the honor choir
include the ability to match pitch, enthusiasm and faithful attendance at 90
percent of choir rehearsals.
This weekend will host 67 children and 23
adults representing 20 different churches throughout the state. Some of the
children are residents of the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home. The children
learned five songs over the three weeks prior to this weekend.
Directing the rehearsals and concert will
be Darryl Ferrington from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
The Children’s Honor Choir is partially
funded by the generosity of Louisiana Baptist churches giving through the
Cooperative Program. All churches are
encouraged to plan now to be a part of next year’s Children’s Honor Choir
weekend.
Information may be obtained from
www.LBC.org or contact: Bonnie Beeman,
children’s choir consultant, at Bonnie.Beeman@LBC.org.