Sunday is not a day of rest on Choir Tour. Our amazing youth performed 3 times today in 3 very different venues. First, they participated in the morning worship service at Woodland Baptist Church. The church then fed us a delicious lunch which Josh said was the best lunch he'd ever eaten on Tour (high praise because we've had some good ones!). The next stop was Morningside Meadows Retirement Community. When Glenn apologized for going over the 30 minutes we were given, everyone emphatically told them to keep singing. Our 3rd very warm reception of the day came after a brief tour of San Fernando Cathedral, the oldest Catholic Cathedral in the U.S., when the choir performed there during a very special evening mass similar to our Deacon Ordination. Everything was beautiful, from the golden altar to the fantastic acoustics.
Daily Journals
When I was met with the thought of singing at Woodland Baptist Church, intimidation immediately set in. Randy Edwards, the minister of music, is a great director who founded Youth Cue, the organization I went to Mexico with last summer. He was the director on that trip so it should not come as a surprise that I wanted us to do very well. I think we did! The church service was exactly like ours at FBC Forsyth and I felt very comfortable singing for the people there. They fed us a very good lunch (the brownie and ice cream was my favorite though!). But the most exciting thing for me was getting to reunite with a lot of my friends that went to Mexico in San Antonio who go to that church. It may be the highlight of my tour.
-Emily G.
On Sunday, we performed at the Morningside Meadows Retirement Community. We had a very good concert there. All of the residents enjoyed our concert and were very appreciative of us coming.
-Jennifer M.
The Catholic Church was very cool. I go to a Catholic Church, but it was a lot different. They had a 24kt solid gold altar! They were having a ceremony for the 3rd year of training for the deacons. They have to train for 5 years! They also had a program that had the whole mass in it. I think it was cool to be going to the oldest Catholic Cathedral in North America. It has gone through floods and fires. All in all, it was a wonderful experience.
-Caroline W.
-Emily G.
On Sunday, we performed at the Morningside Meadows Retirement Community. We had a very good concert there. All of the residents enjoyed our concert and were very appreciative of us coming.
-Jennifer M.
The Catholic Church was very cool. I go to a Catholic Church, but it was a lot different. They had a 24kt solid gold altar! They were having a ceremony for the 3rd year of training for the deacons. They have to train for 5 years! They also had a program that had the whole mass in it. I think it was cool to be going to the oldest Catholic Cathedral in North America. It has gone through floods and fires. All in all, it was a wonderful experience.
-Caroline W.
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