I visited Bethany Free Will Baptist Church’s 11 a.m. service Dec. 29. The church sits between the North Fox Hall and Sherwood neighborhoods on Azalea Garden Road. Sitting with Kathy and Mick Shaw, I ...
The acapella music tradition of these churches provided the soundtrack to singer Ginny Hawker’s childhood. She grew up near Chincoteague, Virginia where her father worked construction. But every ...
“Lining out” is the practice of singing or stating the upcoming lines of a hymn for the congregation by a song leader or preacher. Typically, the words are stated quickly, and then sung in a drawn-out ...
ST. PAUL — Grace Baptist Church in St. Paul is welcoming everyone to come and enjoy an old gospel-hour hymn sing. The event begins 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, at the church, 123 Ninth St. There will be ...
It’s an invitation to worship with no spoken word, just music. The Big Sing will welcome any interested singer to join in a choir of hymns on July 25. The free event is one of the first of its kind in ...
In 1983, Esther Burroughs penned some lyrics about keeping a Christian home and entered them in a Southern Baptist hymn-writing contest. Some time later, her husband, Bob — who had made a name for ...
FALL RIVER - Third Baptist Church of Fall River will offer an entire service of Gospel hymn music this Sunday, May 6, at 6 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend the "Old Time Hymn Sing" at Third ...
BRATTLEBORO -- The Brattleboro community is cordially invited to join in an old-fashioned sing-along of favorite church hymns at the First Baptist Church, 190 Main St., on Sunday at 3 p.m. This event ...
George Linney once compiled a list of 300 church hymns he knew by heart, first verse to last. But his favorite was “Blessed Assurance,” the traditional and quietly elegant ode to the power of faith ...