The 19th Kentucky Christmas Singing (with Southern Harmony)

Mt. Zion Methodist Church
Mercer County, Kentucky
Sunday, December 12, 2021

The nineteenth annual singing at Mt. Zion Methodist Church was called to order at 3:00 p.m. by James Thobaben joyfully welcoming the attendees back to his church after a year's absence. Kathleen Halpin offered the opening prayer; Ron Pen led the class in singing the scale and 73b (SH), Arlington.
Song selections were from The Sacred Harp, 1991 edition and The Southern Harmony, 1854 facsimile, 1987 UofK reprint.

569b (SH), Sacred Throne - Zach Davis
313b (SH), Cobb - Mary Brinkman
276 (SH), Bridgewater - Donna Kwon
68b (SH), Ortonville - Tim Gregg
290 (SH), Victoria - Tim Morton
159 (SH), Wondrous Love - Don Waggener
208 (SH), Traveling On - Adrian Eldridge
153 (SH), Resurrected - Erin Fulton
59 (SH), Holy Manna - Amy Pemberton; Don Waggener and Jim Thobaben remarked on the dearness of this song to Southern Harmony singers, many of whom are being affected by the horrible tornado that passed across western Kentucky this weekend
81t (SH), Beach Spring - Jonathan Powers
128 (SH), The Promised Land - Jim Thobaben and Ron Pen
47b (SH), Idumea - Pat Waggener and Zach Davis

RECESS

16 (SoH), Star in the East - Erin Fulton
168 (SH), Cowper - Tim Morton
271t (SH), Arkansas - Greg McElyea and Tim Gregg
270 (SH), Confidence - Adrian Eldridge
56b (SH), Villulia - Zach Davis
86 (SH), Poland - Josiah Robinson
99 (SH), Gospel Trumpet - Tim Gregg and Adrian Eldridge
58 (SH), Pisgah - Don Waggener and Erin Fulton
457 (SH), Wayfaring Stranger - Jonathan Powers
441 (SH), Raymond - Donna Kwon and Ron Pen
139 (SoH), Hallelujah - Erin Fulton
147b (SH), Laban - Mary Brinkman
245 (SH), Claremont - Josiah Robinson

Jonathan Powers said a closing prayer and Ron Pen led 267 (SH), Parting Friends (First), while the class took the parting hand.

There had been fifteen leaders among a class of forty-nine singers from Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, and Massachusetts. The class dismissed to a soup supper prepared by the church members.

Chairman—James Thobaben; Secretary—Erin Fulton.