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Pender Music: Ave Maria

For Pender’s offertory on August 6 2023 Brian Stevenson, Director of Music Ministries, played Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod version) on his harp. He was accompanied by Heidi Jacobs on the piano.

“Ave Maria” is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria, originally published in 1853 as “Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach”.

The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod that he superimposed over an only very slightly changed version of Johann Sebastien Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of his The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1722.

Watch the whole service at https://youtu.be/s_KMbck4o2c

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Posted by MaryO on October 19, 2023 in Ministries, Music, Music Ministry, Pender UMC, Special Music, Videos

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The Upper Room

08 Nov

Get your copy or The Upper Room at Pender UMC each month in regular or large print versions.

The Upper Room magazine’s mission is to provide a model of practical Christianity, accessible in varied formats, to help people feel invited and welcomed into God’s presence to:

listen to scripture as God’s personal message, linking their stories to God’s story;
commune with God in prayer;
see their daily choices and small acts of obedience as part of God’s work;
realize our connection through Christ as a universal family of believers;
encounter the living Christ and be transformed into Christ’s likeness.

From Chuck Knows Church. The Upper Room. It’s the place where Jesus had his last meal with his disciples, but it’s also the world’s most widely read daily devotional guide. Chuck explains the significance of this “little book”.

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Posted by MaryO on November 8, 2022 in Bible Study, Chuck Knows Church, Get Involved!, Pender UMC, Videos

Tags: Christ, Christianity, Chuck Knows Church, God, magazine, Pender UMC, prayer, scripture, The Upper Room, video

Today’s Bible Verse ~ Philippians 1:9-10

17 Sep

Today’s Bible Verse

“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,” –Philippians 1:9-10