Ken and I have both enjoyed opportunities to sing with choirs since we were in elementary school. In fact, we met when he joined the choir at First Presbyterian Church of Royal Oak. I had joined it a couple of years earlier when we moved from the east side of Detroit to Pleasant Ridge a week after I graduated from high school. It gave me a chance to get to know people in my new neighborhood as well as continue to sing which I'd done all four years in high school. Ken was living in a home in Royal Oak with a bunch of friends from General Motors Institute on his work sections (four week periods of work between four weeks of school). He and one of those guys decided to come to our church. Since Ken, too, loved singing, he joined the choir and sang with us when he was in town every other month.
When we came to Hillcrest RV Resort, we decided to attend the non-denominational church that met in the club house each Sunday. There was a very small choir that sang an anthem each week for the service and that quickly attracted Ken's attention. Long story short, he joined and I followed a little later. Now ten year later we are one of the most senior members of the group.
Today we not only sang the anthem for the worship service but then went through a two hour afternoon rehearsal for an evening performance in our larger clubhouse. Each Sunday evening there is an ice cream social that includes an hour of entertainment. Tonight we were it! We sang all the old gospel hymns either as a choir or in solos, duets, or small groups.
Ken sang Old Rugged Cross in a duet with Karen
He also sang "It Is Well With My Soul" with all the rest of the men (and Shirley who sings tenor)
While I sang "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"and played the Anklung (wooden instruments from Indonesia that one of our members brought back after visiting her missionary son over there) with a group of the ladies
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