Choir Concert at FLBCS
February 2 | 7PM
Join us at 7pm on February 2 in Hauge Memorial Chapel for a concert featuring this brand new composition performed by the FLBC Concert Choir and a professional string quintet. The concert will also include a hymn sing, celebrating God’s care for us, as revealed through the Trinity.
Guests are invited to join for a reception in Heritage Hall following the concert. The concert and reception will kick off our missions emphasis week at FLBC.
Concert Promotional Materials
From the Composer:
TRINITY: Our God of Hope and Help is a meditation on God's intimate care for His children through the three Persons of the Godhead.
"One Jehovah" opens the work, imploring the Trinity for divine presence and mercy. The next three pieces contemplate how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit offer hope and help to mankind.
"Look at the Birds" is a setting of selected verses from Matthew 6, where believers are assured that, just as He feeds the birds and clothes the lilies, their heavenly Father will also meet their needs.
"What a Savior, What a Friend" revives a well-known hymn text that presents Jesus as a friend of sinners, a strength in weakness, and a help in sorrow.
Just as Christ did not leave us without a helper, the work transitions directly into "Breath of God," which bids the Holy Spirit to come and impart new life, purify hearts, imbue with divine fire, and bring us undying to eternity.
The final movement is a triumphant "Gloria," in which the congregation is invited to join the final stanza, singing Isaac Watts' familiar hymn, "O God, our Help in Ages Past," testifying of God's faithfulness to His people in this life and into eternity.
—Marianne Forman
Commissioning Organizations
Deo Cantamus of Minnesota, Plymouth, Minnesota
Al Hawkins, Artistic Director
Bob Jones University Chorale, Greenville, South Carolina
Dr. Andrew Huish, Director
Faith Baptist Church, Clinton Township, Michigan
John Weigle, Associate Pastor
First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, Ohio
John McClain, Director of Music and Worship
Free Lutheran Bible College, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Andrew Hanson, Music Director