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All of this contributed to me joining the marching band, beginning in eighth grade, which has taken over my life now, in the best way possible and given me a defined place. It’s nice to be a part of something like

One of my most-enjoyed gifts is the ability to create and perform pieces of music. I find that music can help people to feel or understand difficult abstract ideas that we as Christians must recognize. Making music is also such a personal activity that the process a musician reflect on the topics that are so difficult for us to grasp. In terms of service, continuing participation in KCA’s praise team, Voice of Hope ensemble, and small vocal ensemble are all ways to both to personally serve the Lord and to serve others wanting to serve in similar respects.

From the beginning of times, music has played an important role in everyone’s life. At first, it started with drum-based and percussion instruments made out of what was available as rocks and sticks. Our ancestors proved that human beings have an innate need of music. Nowadays, no one teaches a baby to follow the beat of a song, he just naturally lets his body get involved with the rhythm. Since the prehistoric era to Christian times, several forms of music have developed leaving a trail to new genres of music. For Christianity, hymns and plainchants were the first forms of music considered as a worship to God. As time passed by, Christian music has evolved giving way to new and fresh sounds.

Mid-2014 our family business required that I devote myself full-time to business rather than school and I withdrew from the program hoping to return when our lives settled to a manageable routine. Most recently my husband and I added real estate investment and property management, to our resume. Our crowning accomplishment (besides raising three awesome young adults; 21, 19 and 16) has been the restoration/renovation of an historic building into an event and live music venue. I am running the facility/venue – The Lark & Sparrow Historic Venue – booking acoustic groups and renting it for weddings, private parties, and corporate and non-profit events. Life & Faith As a child I was raised in the Catholic faith and attended 12 years of Catholic school. Because of my upbringing, in the church, I have always known that God created me to sing, that He created me for music, and to worship him. I found my greatest joy in life in singing in children’s choir as a youth and eventually being involved in worship leading and songwriting. Fortunately, after high school I left the church and subsequently, my

Of all the things I’ve ever experienced, being in the Blanche Ely Marching Band was the most meaningful. Growing up I couldn’t fathom the value of life’s intangible things, but my perspicacity grew when I made the decision to stay in the band. The most important lessons I learned while being in the band would be: the importance of resilience,

My faith and how I lived in my faith made serves as a lasting example to believers in Christ (Lindslay, 3). In life, I believed that all work that I did was spiritual work for the betterment of the Lord’s kingdom. Whether I was writing, ministering, eating out, or simply talking with friends, all work, all things, all I did was for the advancement of the Lord’s kingdom. For the work of “a Beethoven” or the work of a “charwoman” were all the same in my eyes; for both the workers, their work should be “offered to God” and done “humbly” “as to the Lord” (Eshlemen, 2). Although I struggled with cynicism, this way of living life challenged and brought new meaning to my life (Lindslay, 3). This idea on the life I lived and how I lived the life I was given serves as an example of Colossians 3:17 for Christians who wish to live and long to live in similar fashions (The Holy, 237). This way of living my faith truly required me to be quite public and open with my thoughts and beliefs. My faith was not always outright and public. When I was young, my family was my first spiritual influence (Eshlemen, 5). My faith started when I was young, but was shattered with the death of my mother when I was ten years of age (Lindslay, 1). This tragedy shook who I thought God is. The death of my mother affected me deeply. In fact, in college, I denounced the protestant

Although I've received many musical accolades, the skills and relationships I've formed while being in band are

I have always looked to spend more time in music, so even with the challenges of marching band I have been the lead bassist for my school’s top jazz band all four years of my journey. Even with the time I spend in marching, I spend at least four hours a week creating music with my peers. In this I’ve not only been able to prove to myself that I can play, but I’ve also learned how to synergize with my fellow musicians to make something beautiful. I’ve been able to transfer this to my life outside of band through group projects and community service projects.

Music is an everyday occurrence for most people. In some way, shape and form, people listen to music. For Christians, specially those at bible college, this can be in chapel day to day. For others it may be in a car or even in the workplace, which can be the case for Christians also. Music for me is an everyday occurrence, not only in chapel but also in other places such as my dorm room and when I get ready for sports.

First of all, the first performance was witnessing the praise and worship team lead us into the presence of God. The team consist of nine people. There were three singers, a drummer boy, two cornet players, one trombone player, and two bass guitarist. The service was held in a separate building with about 850 people (young and adults). The atmosphere was very spirit filled and ready to worship. The songs ranged from fun and dance like to very slow, deep words and lifting hands up high. The part I liked most was when the youth would sing out the songs and get in the mood rather than just sit and watch the performance .it was very refreshing seeing the youth just have fun with the band and that they didn’t care how people would react to

Music is the only medium that blesses both man and God at the same time and as such to see it as an entertainment factor within our worship services is a gross misunderstanding of its purpose. Music is made up of three elements: melody, harmony, and rhythm. Mankind is also made up of three parts: spirit, soul and body (1 Thess 5:23). It can be argued that music and the triune, or trichotomy, of mankind are intrinsically linked i.e. melody is likened to the spirit, harmony to the soul and rhythm to the body.

The entire shift in Christian music began in America and gradually branched out to revolutionise the globe. Before the 1960s set hymns or gospel pieces were the only way to preach to Jesus through music. In the beginning years of the 1960s the nation’s mood altered dramatically to this notion of free spirit. The youth of America were a collective group who had become influenced largely by this change more than older generations. Often these individuals were referred to as ‘hippies’ and the culture partook in drugs, addictions and violence. By 1967 various Christian Leaders and religious members of the community recognised the youth could be saved by God through the new concept of ‘Jesus Music’. John Higgins, a leader at one of Calvary Chapel’s,

If you could live to be one hundred years old, or older, would you? Well there

For the past three years I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to play guitar in the youth worship band at Double Oak Community Church. This has both challenged me and has been an amazing outlet for the music that fills my head. I have grown both as a musician and spiritually from this experience. Every time I step on stage in the small youth center I get the feeling that I am helping someone else come closer to God, maybe for the first time. Leading worship is something I would suggest to any guitarist if they are looking for a way to play somewhere outside of their

This premise is predicated on the hypothesis that music plays an independent and important role within scripture itself; that is to be an elevated carrier for liturgy and prayer, the use of which is mandated by God for corporate worship. Both corporate worship and individual faith would suffer if music were removed. As an act of worshipping obedience, and a way of more readily understanding and relating to God, we will examine