SERMON
This Sunday: The Rev. Ken Feske

“Beyond What’s Fair”

Bible Study Leader: The Rev. Ken Feske
Bible Study Topic: Luke 13: 1-9

Bible Passages: Genesis 15: Selected Verses; Psalm 63: 1-5; Luke 13: 1-9
Lector: Rick Mayer
Crucifer: Peggy Pfeifer
Ushers: Kathy Gray and Carol Schock
Fellowship: Karen and Ron Fenstermaker

Flowers: Church in the Forest

Prelude
9:45 a.m.

In Quiet Mood……….Florence Price
Night
Because
Jubal Joslyn, tenor

I Love To Tell the Story……….Emma Lou Diemer
Amazing Grace……….Gwyneth Walker
Cathryn Wilkinson, organ

Offertory
I Just Can’t Keep From Cryin’……….Margaret Bonds
Jubal Joslyn, tenor

Organ Postlude
“My Jesus, Who Has Chosen Me” from Opus 122……….Johannes Brahms

During Lent, introspective and contemplative postludes continue with “Mein Jesu, der du mich” from the set of organ chorales that were the last music composed by Johannes Brahms.

Today’s music celebrates “Women’s History Month.” Fanny Jane Crosby, who wrote “To God Be the Glory,” was a prolific poet, with many of her thousands of poems published or set to music. Her output is more astonishing in that she was blind from infancy and for her education relied heavily on the ability to memorize. Florence Price grew up in the Presbyterian Church of Little Rock, Arkansas and first played piano as a child of 4. Her career began in Chicago around 1930, and she was later inducted into the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Much music by Price however was unknown until a chance discovery of manuscripts in 2009. Emma Lou Diemer, a native of Missouri, taught, composed and conducted at the University of California- Santa Barbara until retiring as professor emerita in 1991. Gwyneth Walker, born in Connecticut, lives in Vermont and has composed a large body of work for organ, chorus, orchestra, and chamber ensembles. She composed “Amazing Grace” as a wedding gift.