Philosophy and Music

Do, Ré, Mi, Fa, Sol...

Tonight Thais and Anderson came over for a study on Christian philosophy of music and a session on how to read music.

In April, Priscilla and Rodrigo and I met weekly for the same study. Since Priscilla is taking a course each evening this month, our sessions were put on hold ...meanwhile, Thais and Anderson took interest in learning. The plan is to put the two groups together.

We are using a solfege/theory book and the translated book of Tim Fischer´s The Battle for Christian Music for our study.


I am using the Kodaly/Curwin method for teaching them how to read music, using their voice as the instrument.

The Mark of a Good Friendship

Our mother´s day tea had a good turnout—fifteen ladies came to participate on this day.

The theme was on friendship and the importance of being a Biblical friend to those around us—relationships in and outside the family.



Our speaker, Vera, is the wife of Claudio, who is a seminary student. She has immersed herself into the ministry of Ponta Grossa along with her husband. She is one of my piano students and soul-winning partners.

We had a short skit showing that biblical friendship may sometimes involve confronting others in love.

ALL DAY YOUTH OUTREACH

With the small group of young adults in our church, we met to organize a youth outreach that would, Lord-willing, bring in youth from our community....

Other churches of like faith and practice were invited to come and the outcome of the day was dynamic. We had 68 youth out that participated in small and large group competitions, intercalated with two short preaching services. From our community we received two new contacts and were able to see two old contacts participate. There was a lot of energy displayed during the day and we praise the Lord for the good sportsmanship and attitudes as well as how our church family came together to assist in the day.