how many of you all were in choir

[afro_christian_girl]

To me my favorite part of church is the singing...not saying i'm dissing everything else i just like to sing especially gospel songs!!...so are any of yall on the choir?

 

[Maeyken]

My church doesn't have regular choir, but I have been in choirs for special occasions. Last year was my church's 50th anniversary, and we put together a choir for that which I was in. Often we have choirs for Christmas and Easter as well, and I have been involved in some of those (although not recently since I am away at school, but go home for holidays. Makes it rather difficult, since I have not yet mastered being in two places at once!)

 

[miggles]

I used to sing in the choir but I had a job that kept me from going to Wednesday night choir practice. But I didn't mind not singing in it. The choir director was kind of a silly fuddy duddy. He would swing his hips while directing the Youth Choir. I guess he was trying to relate. But it was a real turn off.

 

[Matt.9:22]

I used to be in the choir way back when I was little and we had the sunshine choir. Now I prefer praise dancing and music ministry

 

[SarahB622]

Our Church doesn't have a choir either sometimes a group 20 or 30 will do a special and I will sing with them but we don’t do it often.

 

[BubblesRelena]

I used to be in choir. I loved it. But then I wasn't allowed to be on the choir anymore. I had self taught myself to play the drums, and since our drummer left, that was my new job. I missed singing. Now, the preacher is leaving (he doesn't know where he's going and he's not giving a reason to leaving) and he's giving the church to his In-Laws. It's a very messy situation. I left, there's no more God in that church. The preacher betrayed him. I really wish I could find a wonderful church around here, but it's hard.

~BubblesRelena

 

[creep]

what an interesting name.am i to guess from this that you are an ''african american'', or is it just a name.also do you mean the regular kind of singing, or the very lively kind of black singing(which i actually like listening to. where i used to play ccg's on a sunday, it was over a room rented out to the 'fire mountain' religious group. colourful people to say the least..very expressive.loud too!)
i had to do choir in first year, and hated it. but in the junior school (5-12 yr olds) every weekday morning for six years we'd sing a hymn in the morning collect to a piano accompniment. one of my favourites was morning has broken. its a lovely song, but since then, all of 7 years ago now, i haven't sung like that.only sung for my own amusement, but now i'm my band's new singer, so i guess that this is my chance to start singing meaningful things again.

 

[creep]

a thought just occurred to me. those of you whose church doesn't have a choir, why not just start a choir? all ye have to do is sing in harmony..you wouldn't have to be the best singers in the wrld. How hard can it possibly bee. Get the minister/priests backing, and put a message on the church's notice board, then hold auditions. You'll have your choir, and it'll really bring your church's members closer together.

 

[eaglex]

I was in the choir when I was at my childhood church . That was a while back like in the late 60s and 70s.

 

[Jadis40]

I sing in my church's choir - I've been a member since 1999, and I love it.

 

[BeautyForAshes]

I used to sing in my family's gospel group as a child.

 

[Rich48]

I have sung in a church choir in the past (bass), but am not currently doing so as am involved in other things at the present time.

Rich

 

[eaglex]

i WAS IN THE CHOIR IN MY CHILDHOOD CHURCH.

 

[Tenorvoice]

Raises his hand......

I am in our churches choir. God has truly blessed us in the 3 years that I have been a member. We went from having only 25 on the roster and maybe 15 show up for practice and on Sunday. To having 45-50 show up for practice and on sunday mornings, and the roster has grown to 60+.

I am also in a men's quartet were we focus on that good ole close harmony an sing alot of Gaither songs. Also I am in a Tenor/Bass ensomble, a Trio, and sing solo's.

God has been keeping me busy with the gift that He has blessed me with.

Peace and Joy in the Lord always.

Tenor

 

[Hawkster318]

I recently jin as an adult. I was in children choir, back in the day..

 

[AveMaria]

I'm not now, but I have been in the past. I probably wouldn't do it again, unless there was a shortage of contraltos and they begged me - Choir practice always seems to interfere with my schedule!

 

[The Perennial Student]

I've been in Church Choirs for over 45 years. Some of my happiest memories are of singing and chanting.

My husband was our Parish's choir director until his heart and back problems became too bad for him to continue. I recently injured my vocal cords and can no longer sing - and I'm just devastated about that!

Our Church Services are all chanted and sung. The music is very ancient but there are new pieces which are based closely on the ancient chants composed by people like Tchiakovsky, Rachmaninoff, Ledkovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, and Bortnyansky.

I'm not allowed to post links, but if you search Google on Russian Orthodox MP3 you will find many wonderful websites with MP3 and WAV files of some of our beautiful chants.

Blessings

The Perennial Student

 

[Alexander Nissi]

I am in my church's choir for special occasions only since there is no regular choir. Unfortunatly my church is a little too smalle to have a regular choir. My ex gf was in a choir at her church but there were a few people that made very bad rumors about her singing behind her back and she ended up getting booted from the choir with no way to defend herself.~Alec

 

[Tenorvoice]

Singing behind her back..... that must have been a great trick. J/k did you meen to word it that way????

 

[Alexander Nissi]

Singing behind her back..... that must have been a great trick. J/k did you meen to word it that way????

No meant to say they were spreading rumors behind her back about her singing lol