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 ...

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 First Baptist Church of Bascom will have a four-part-harmony hymn sing on Oct. 2 at 5 p.m. The evening will feature selections from the hymnal with a maroon-colored cover that has been used by ...

Deep in the hills of Appalachia, there's a mournful, beautiful style of church music that hasn't changed since the 18th century. The hymns of the Old Regular Baptist Church are sung in the so-called ...

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 ...

Sunday, Oct. 5, the church will honor him and his wife, June, for their four decades of service. His connection to the ...

“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 ...

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 ...