Hymn Sing X 2

We recently posted about a recent Sunday afternoon when everyone brought along and played their musical instruments. That was a fun and encouraging time.

This past Sunday we all gathered again after our main worship service and fellowship meal and began practicing singing parts for the Doxology using the Servens CD "All Glory, Laud, & Honor" as we've done for past songs learned from that CD.

Here are all four families grouped to sing parts as we listened to each track on the CD before we tried it without the recorded voices.

By the end of our practice session, we all sounded like the Servens...hmm, well, not quite! But it was fun singing, and we'll do it again another Sunday soon.

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Later that afternoon, we headed over to visit friends for an evening meal and a hymn sing at their farm.

What a good time of fellowship we had...conversing, eating venison sandwiches (a first for most of us!), singing, and playing instruments.

Talk about singing in parts!! We think all the children in this family were born singing! Such harmony and robust singing! We all loved it and think they could definitely teach us how to sing in parts!

We sang some old hymns and also learned some songs that were new to us from their Heartland Hymns songbook.

And then the instruments came out...Hannah and Sarah on flute, Jonathan on both banjo and guitar, and the others joined in on violins, harmonica, and guitar.

As time rolled around to call it a night, our friends sang one last song to send us on our way...Echoes From The Throne from the Harmonia Sacra hymnal, one of their favorites.

Thank you so much for inviting us, Showalter Family! It was a full Sunday of musical enjoyment!

~Deb

Comments

[Jane]

What a great time singing together!! I love close harmony and it sounds (even tho' we can't hear you) like you had a wonderful time of fellowship and encouragement!

[victoria]

What a wonderful reason to gather together. Wish I could have heard the beautiful music.

Victoria

[Dorothy]

Re: Project 365 - Keep the lamp, of course!!! It's wonderful! =-)

[Bet]

This post needs audio!

[Connie W]

Deb, It looks and sounds just lovely, would love to hear the playing and singing. :)

[Tammy]

Learning new hymns is always fun.I loved what you said about the children born singing!

[Islandsparrow]

An evening spent singing with family and friends - my idea of perfect! My husband's family is like your friends - born singing parts. I'm glad that my children inherited that lovely talent too.