Happy 250th birthday to “Amazing Grace”!
A popular hymn celebrates its 250th birthday this year: John Newton (1725-1807) wrote “Amazing Grace” in early 1773. Newton’s remarkable life journey included time as a sea captain and slave trader. During a storm at sea, he converted to Christianity and later became an Anglican minister and anti-slavery activist.
When Thomas Kingo wrote this hymn around 1689, he probably didn’t predict that it would still be in our hymnal over 330 years later. Still, if he were to show up at Trinity today and open the hymnal to find his hymn, he might be disappointed.
The Trinity Choir rehearsals are resuming! After our January break, we are preparing to resume choir again at the Mission Campus! All choir singers are invited to join us as we start rehearsals again on Wednesday nights from 7:00-8:30pm starting on February 8.
At the 8:30 and 11:00 am services at the Mission campus this Sunday, 1/29, the choir from The Lutheran High School of Kansas City will offer their musical gifts during worship. The choir, under the direction of Peter Olson, joins us at the conclusion of Lutheran Schools Week.
On Saturday, November 5 at the 5:30pm service, on the Mission campus, the Trinity Choir will be singing Bradley Ellingboe’s Requiem. The choir will be accompanied by organ, flute, oboe, cello, harp, and timpani. We are sing this larger work on All Saints weekend to honor those beloved saints in our congregation, lives, and community who have died.
The Trinity Choir, along with guest chamber musicians (flute, oboe, cello, harp, and timpani), will present Bradley Ellingboe’s Requiem during the 5:30 pm service on Saturday, 5 November, at the Mission Campus. This musical work is particularly fitting for All Saints weekend, as it originates from the Roman Catholic requiem mass, a “mass for the dead.”