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Perhaps the most common response a choir director hears in answer to an
invitation to sing in a church choir is, "Oh, you don't want me! (a) I can't
carry a tune in a bucket. (b) My wife always tells me not to sing on the
hymns. (c) The dog hides in the basement when I sing in the shower."
Okay, so no one has asked you to audition for the next season of
"American Idol." You can still help out the Cathedral Choir here at St.
John's in a very significant way by taking on a job currently being done by
someone who sings very well but is too busy on Sunday mornings to be in
choir. Take, for instance, the three guys who run the sound board for
services, the Audio Crew. They are all singers and musicians, and there are
just three of them. Since they are on the board one week in three it makes
no sense to even try to sing in choir. But what if there were eight people
on the Audio Crew? Then each person would only be scheduled once every two
months or so.
There are other singers and musicians serving in lots ways from Youth
Sponsors to Sunday School teachers to nursery helpers. All of these
ministries are important, and no one wants musical talent to be a curse that
sentences someone to time in a choir or a musical ensemble. Singers can
enjoy teaching children too. But sometimes, sometimes, people who would like
to use their voices and musicianship simply cannot because they are needed
more elsewhere. And that is where you might come in. If you enjoy the music
at St. John's, is there any way that you could be part of making it continue
and maybe even get better, not by singing or playing yourself, but by
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