18th Harmonia Sacra Singing on New Year's Day

Chapel of the Word, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries
Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana
Thursday, January 1, 2009

All selections from The Harmonia Sacra, 26th ed., 2008.

Matthew Lind called the eighteenth Annual Singing to order with the song on page 53, Old Hundred.
Samuel Sommers said an opening prayer and led the song 258, Scotland.
Other leaders:
268, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Christine Guth
158, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Michael Miller
159, Cookham - Randy Neufeld
140b, Words Of Peace - Ginny Landgraf (requested by Margaret McLaughlin)
146, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Susan Geil
146b, Unity - James Nelson Gingerich (requested by Phyllis Stutzman)
303, Zerah - Karen Bahler
277, Let Me Go - Brad Bahler
171, Chapel - Ginny Landgraf
365, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - James Nelson Gingerich
240, Final Decision - Gillian Inksetter
200b, Greenfields - Malachi Lind and Matthew Lind
123, St. Ann's - Mary List
161, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Ann Miczulski
66, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Martha Beverly
332b, Babylonian Captivity - Ted Mercer
158b, Bozrah - Bill Beverly
227b, Hail To The Brightness - James Nelson Gingerich (requested by Kate Lind).

Recess

Will Fitzgerald brought the class back with 69b, Retreat.
Other leaders:
260, Parting Hymn - Matthew Lind (requested by Barbara Nelson Gingerich)
254, Spring - James Nelson Gingerich (requested by Pam Inteman)
157, Ebenezer - Samantha Lioi and Rachel Miller Jacobs
106b, Consolation - Rachel Miller Jacobs
216, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Sherry Manison and Andrea Village
109b, Solon - Toni Askew and Ginny Landgraf
217, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Matthew Lind (requested by Rose Marie Bell)
134, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Will Fitzgerald (requested by Sandra Rodruguez)
88, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Ann Sheeva and Matthew Lind
221, Daughter Of Zion - CarolSue Borkholder and Will Fitzgerald
234, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Bruce Miller and Matthew Lind
311, Brown - James Nelson Gingerich, with an unidentified bass singer.

Recess

James Nelson Gingerich started the session with 202b, Mourner.
Other leaders:
188, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Peggy Mistak and Martha Beverly
206, Missionary Hymn - Elizabeth Glick Grandfield and James Nelson Gingerich
157, Ebenezer - Beth Miller Kraybill and Ginny Landgraf
353, I Have Set Watchmen... - Samuel Sommers
100, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Christine Guth
183, Vernon - Will Fitzgerald
176b, Sweet Affliction - Matthew Lind
251, Siloam - Michael Miller
166b, Ganges - Jim Helke
210b, Zion's Pilgrim - Randy Neufeld
139, Hants - ?? (requested by Margaret McLaughlin)
108, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Susan Geil
318, The Earth is the Lord's - James Nelson Gingerich (requested by Samantha Lioi).

Recess

Malachi and Matthew Lind brought the class together with 300, Pisgah.
Leaders:
378b, Love at Home - Karen Bahler
351, Hosanna - Brad Bahler
60b, Bourbon - Ginny Landgraf
328, Land Of Promise - Sherry Manison
333, Tallis' Evening Hymn - Mary List
345, Newkirk - Ann Miczulski
93, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Peggy Mistak
173b, Judgment - Dean Knuth
218, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - Bill Beverly
164, ('t'op or 'b'ottom of the page?) - ?? (requested by Kate Lind)
46, (No song at that page no.) - Gillian Inksetter
290, Dedication Anthem - Dirk Vardaman.

After announcements, James Nelson Gingerich led the class in 354, Evening Hymn, as its closing song.

Carry-in dinner followed.

Minutes submitted by Samuel Sommers, secretary.