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The Importance of Music for Children

Music NotesRecently someone recommended a great article to me about the importance of music in the overall development of children. Most of what is in the article I have read before but it was a great reminder of how important music and the arts are to a child’s physical, emotional, and spiritual development. Research has shown for some time the connectedness of music with increased math and science scores. This article reiterates that point along with many others.

Please check out this article by Jackie Silberg entitled The Importance of Music for Children. It has some great information plus ideas for utilizing music in everyday life. Parents I especially encourage you to read this article.

Children’s Music at EHBC

The preschool and children’s choirs meet each Wednesday night from 5:45 – 6:30 p.m. Each choir not only sings songs we can share in worship, but also experience foundational musical activities including steady beat, playing instruments, music theory and more. All of which are presented in a fun and creative way.

CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS MUSICAL | Sunday, December 21 – 6 p.m.
Presently our choirs (3 years – 6th grade) are working on a musical for Sunday, December 21. The drama was written by our own Greg Gosselin and has been published in the Growing in Grace curriculum we use in choir. Congratulations Greg – good job! Mark your calendars now so you can take part in this event.

PARENTS ALSO NOTE when your child’s choir will sing in worship.

Oct 19  |  6pm  |  4th – 6th grade choir

Oct 26  |  6pm  |  2nd- 3rd grade choir

Nov 02 |  6pm  |  Preschool 2 choir

Nov 09 |  6pm  |  Preschool 1 choir

Nov 16 |  6pm  |  First Grade choir

To God be the Glory!

Keith

 

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FOCUSED

One of the casualties of aging to which I find myself a victim is the dimming of the eyes.  Ecclesiastes 12 counsels the young person to remember God, their Creator, in their youth before the aging process takes over and various faculties, as listed in verses 1-7, are diminished.

Clear eyesight when we are young may be something we take for granted. However, as we age the realization that our vision is not as sharp as it once was takes hold. “Readers” become standard fare for all intricate tasks. Our once keen laser sharp focus is now blurry and in need of help to restore its youthfulness. That restoration is found through glasses or some sort of rejuvenating surgery. Especially in the early stages of this degenerative eye problem we may be able to fake it and get by, but eventually we must relent and do something to correct the problem.

There is a parallel between physical and spiritual vision. “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” was written in the early 20th century. The hymn writer, Helen Lemmel, was strongly influenced by the artist and later little-known missionary, Lilias Trotter. Miss Trotter started off as an aspiring artist but early on felt a call from God to reach the lost. She began her ministry by rescuing prostitutes from the streets of London. Later she went to Africa, without missionary funding, and served for over forty years. While there she penned a poem that would greatly influence the writing of the hymn “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.”  The poem was entitled “Focused: A Story and Song.” 

The poem centers around focusing one’s attentions fully and completely upon God. She writes that Satan knows that if a person uses all their powers of concentration on being led by God’s Spirit, they will have a great intensity and impact upon those to whom they are called to minister. Lilias Trotter, writing in a more formal use of the English language than we are accustomed, shares some timeless insights which could very easily have been written today but with a different accent. She writes: “Never has it been so easy to live in half a dozen good harmless worlds at once—art, music, social science, games, motoring, the following of some profession, and so on. And between them we run the risk of drifting about, the ‘good’ hiding the ‘best’ even more effectually than it could be hidden downright frivolity with its smothered heartache at its own emptiness.”

The “good” hiding the “best” leads us to emptiness.  Could this be true of us today especially as American Christians? Have we sought the “good” while missing the “best”? The chorus of the hymn, which we will be singing in worship this Sunday, says it best.

                Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face,                                                                                                                                        And the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.

Keith Pate

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