At Grace Church of the Islands, singing is an essential element of our worship. Throughout Scripture, we are instructed to sing praises, songs, hymns, and spiritual songs. Our weekly services are filled with musical offerings of praise, and reverent, prayerful hymns. Our worship services also include instrumental music during the prelude, offertory, and postlude, offering opportunities to meditate and pray. Our aim is to honor God and his Word, and to prepare our hearts to receive it. We consider it an awesome privilege to participate in the eternal, perpetual worship of God in heaven.
The Music Ministry
The Music Ministry trains our members and children in understanding and appreciating the hymns and sacred music we use in worship. Listed below are the programs currently in operation at our church.
Adult Choir
The adult choir leads in our Sunday morning service by strengthening congregational singing and sometimes offering a special anthem. Adult choir practice is on Wednesday evening from 7:00-8:00pm.
Children’s Choir
We have an ongoing children’s choir for ages 4 years through 6th grade to teach hymns and carefully selected Biblical songs, including songs to teach the Catechism. We teach singing and history of hymns, learn about hymn writers and composers, and learn basic music notation. We also learn how to use the hymnal for the purpose of helping the children know and appreciate music and hymns and to encourage congregational singing. The children occasionally participate in the worship services as well.
Martin Luther in 1538: “I truly desire that all Christians would love and regard as worthy the lovely gift of music, which is a precious, worthy, and costly treasure given to mankind by God … next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”