The 20th Kentucky Christmas Singing (with Southern Harmony)

Mt. Zion Methodist Church
Mercer County, Kentucky
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Prior to singing, James Thobaben welcomed visitors to his church and Ron Pen gave a brief singing school, explaining the scale, intervals, voice parts, and teaching the notes of 45t (SH), New Britain.
Jonathan Powers called our twentieth annual singing at this church to order with prayer.
Song selections were from The Sacred Harp, 1991 edition and The Southern Harmony, 1854 facsimile, 1987 UofK reprint.

73b (SH), Arlington - Mary Brinkman
68b (SH), Ortonville - Tim Morton
   “Nun komm der heiden Heiland” - Randy Webber (his own arrangement of this Advent chorale)
47t (SH), Primrose - Donna Kwon
81t (SH), Beach Spring - Jonathan Powers
66 (SH), Jordan (First) - Rafael Finkel
95 (SH), Vernon - Diane Arnson Svarlien and Randy Webber
47b (SH), Idumea - Jim Thobaben and Ron Pen
117 (SH), Babylon is Fallen - Amy Pemberton
273 (SH), Milford - Michele Cull
87 (SH), Sweet Canaan - Alana Boltz
186 (SH), Sherburne - Adrian Eldridge

RECESS

16 (SoH), Star in the East - Jim Thobaben and Ron Pen
215 (SH), New Topia - Annaliza Cull
46 (SoH), Evening Shade - Joy R. Dunn
455 (SH), Soar Away - Ron Pen
333 (SH), Family Circle - James Martin and Erin Fulton
32 (SoH), The Midnight Cry - Erin Fulton
485 (SH), New Agatite - Tim Morton
217 (SH), Ballstown - Annaliza Cull
115 (SoH), Morning Star - Randy Webber
445 (SH), Passing Away - Ivy Jackson and Tim Morton
512 (SH), The Spirit Shall Return - Adrian Eldridge
162 (SH), Plenary - Michele Cull
128 (SH), The Promised Land - Marcelyn Thobaben and Ron Pen
155 (SH), Northfield - Annaliza Cull (by request)

Kathleen Halpin spoke a grace. Jim Thobaben led 267 (SH), Parting Friends (First), as the class took the parting hand and dismissed to a soup supper prepared by the church members. Our assembly included fifty-one singers from Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Ireland.

Chairman—James Thobaben; Secretary—Erin Fulton.