Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church

WORSHIP AND MUSIC MINISTRY

The Worship and Music Ministry coordinates how CRLC plans its worship texts, ceremony, music and liturgical form. Worship matters and lies at the heart of how we understnad ourselves together. CRLC follows a three-year lectionary as the basis for hymn selections, prayers, confession texts, biblical lessons, etc. CRLC also follows the church calendar following the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter and Pentecost. CRLC also has some contemporary worship elements interspersed throughout the year with regularity, but not lumped into one service each week. We are blessed to have an outdoor chapel available for worship and private meditation. During July and August, we worship outdoors twice a month.

Opportunities:
Greeter
Usher
Lay Reader
Communion Assistant
Acolyte
Altar Guild
Flower Committee
or of course, one of our choir/instrumental groups listed below...

The role of music in our liturgy is one of supporting the praise and prayers of the assembly. Music always seeks to enhance various elements in worship, rather than take the main focus in worship. Most often a choir presents a special offering during the gathering of the gifts, always based on the theme or readings of that particular day or season. The role of the choirs and cantors is to lead the assembly in its song. Contemporary music is interspersed throughout the year in all worship services, but most often the music at Saturday worship is music which has been written in the past several decades. A Harpsichord at CRLC is “on-loan” from a member while the harpsichord purchased for CRLC is being repaired and enhanced. It is used occasionally for special music and accompanying instruments and choirs.
Adult-Teen Choir: Provides music leadership at worship on Sundays, usually at the 10:30AM service, but once a month at the 8:00AM service. Although the focus is on leading the assembly in its song, the choir sings a variety of styles of music ranging from classical to baroque to gospel to contemporary music. Sometimes there are opportunities for soloists to sing with the choir or assembly, and we call them “cantors.” Choir practice is from 7 to 8:15 PM on Wednesdays in September through May.
	Children’s Choir: Includes children in Grades K-6 and they practice on Wednesdays from 6 to 6:45 PM in September through May. In this group we learn many things about worship and singing well. Some of the goals of the children’s choir are to learn to sing well with work on finding the “head” voice, diction, matching pitches, learning rhythm, learn the various elements of the liturgy, self-confidence, working within a group to make a beautiful sound, give an outlet for creative self-expression, learn to appreciate music and various styles of music
Brass Choir: The newest musical group at CRLC with its worship debut in July 2007. It consists of trumpets, cornets, French horns, trombones and tubas. They provide prelude/offertory music as well as encourage the assembly in hearty hymn-singing. Instrumental soloists perform throughout the year, sometimes with a choir, and often in leadership of hymns or liturgy songs.