Cecily and Fred Foy Strang

In our Adult Learning segment next Wednesday, October 25, Drs. Fred Foy and Cecily Strang will present a program on their current mission project with the Presbyterian Church of East Africa in Kenya.

Fred Foy is the founder and president of Maasai Special Projects Fund and is the East Africa Partner for The Antioch Partners. He, Cecily, and their sons, Jesse and Jacob, have all served as missionaries among the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania. Cecily earned a PhD in Nursing Research and Education from the University of Tennessee and applies her special area of expertise, malaria care, among the Maasai.

While on the faculty at King, Fred Foy coordinated our early worship service. He holds degrees from Furman University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, and the University of Edinburgh, and he has served as Adjunct Professor of Missions, Philosophy, and Religion at King University; Adjunct Associate Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary; and Adjunct Professor at Presbyterian University of East Africa.

Before the evening programs for adults, youth, and children, we will share a fellowship dinner of pork chops with gravy, mashed potatoes, peas, salad, and dessert at 5:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The Adult Learning segment will follow at 6:15; the Middle School Gathering and Wednesday Night Kids will meet separately at 6:00; and High School Small Groups will meet at 7:00.

Sunday's music participants: Sanctuary Choir.

Sunday's music: Sunday's anthem, "Enter Now This Place," was composed by Jane Marshall, who also wrote the text. She is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, with both a bachelor's and a master's degree in music. She has served in a

	Jane Marshall

number of United Methodist churches in Texas and taught both in public schools and at Southern Methodist University. A strong advocate of congregational song, Marshall has written a number of hymn tunes and served on the editorial committees of several hymnbooks. A contributor to music journals, she is the author of Grace Noted, a collection of homilies, essays, and poems published by Hope Publishing Company. In subsequent decades, she concentrated on texts from the Psalms, releasing in 1986 Psalms Together, a collection of six unison antiphons for cantor or choir and congregation using psalm texts from the Common Lectionary that can be performed in a variety of ways. Marshall has also written many sacred choral compositions with nonscriptural texts. She has consistently and purposefully selected meaningful, unhackneyed texts for her compositions. Thus has Jane Marshall altered the landscape of sacred choral music in America.

Organist's footnotes: Each Sunday in October we are exploring new compositions from the Augsburg Organ Library's publication, Reformation, recently released for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.

If you listen closely to our prelude, "Werde munter" ("Come with Us, O Blessed Jesus"), you just might recognize it as the melody Bach used in "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." The melody can be heard floating serenely above a relentless stream of rapidly moving eighth notes. The arranger, Wolfgang F. Rübsam (b. 1946), has the impressive distinction of having published more than 130 recordings, including two recordings of the complete organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach, the complete organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude, Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Rheinberger, César Franck, Louis Vierne, and Jehan Alain, as well as recordings of Franz Liszt, Johann Pachelbel, and Max Reger!

In this quiet setting of our offertory, "Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend" ("Lord Jesus Christ, Be Present Now"), the melody is played by the feet, while the hands accompany. The arranger, Donald Busarow (1934-2011), was Professor of Music and University Organist at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.

Our postlude, "Du är helig" ("You Are Holy"), is a busy piece of music! After a frenzied introduction in the organ's Swell division, the hymn tune is heard in the Great division. A high descant melody in the Ruck Positif division is introduced in the middle section. Then in the fortissimo concluding section, we hear a recapitulation of the hymn tune, with the descant melody now belted out by the Trompette en Chamade (horizontal trumpet), played on the pedals. The composer of this setting, Rick Seaton (b. 1964), is Director of Music and Organist at Bethany Lutheran Church in Denver, Colorado. Together with his wife, Barbara, they run Seaton Studios, a private instruction studio specializing in piano and cello in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

We gratefully acknowledge recent gifts in memory of the following individuals:

Mack Blevins: to the Brazil Mission Fund, from Dotty Royston; to the Ethiopia Mission Fund, from Dotty Royston; to the Memorial Fund, from Frances Rowell

Fred Frazier: to the Christian Hands Ministry Fund, from Frances Rowell

Sunday, October 22

8:30 a.m.       Worship, Fellowship Hall

9:45 a.m.       Sunday School

11:00 a.m.     Worship, Sanctuary

5:00 p.m.       Middle School Student Fellowship, Youth Wing

6:30 p.m.       High School Student Fellowship, Youth Wing

Monday, October 23

5:30 p.m.       Adult Handbells

7:00 p.m.       Session of Elders, Room 123

Tuesday, October 24

9:00 a.m.       Staff Meeting, Room 117

10:00 a.m.     Morning Prayer Group, Conference Room

6:00 p.m.       Venture Crew 3, Room 165

7:00 p.m.       Boy Scout Troop 3, Scout Wing

Wednesday, October 25

9:30 a.m.       Women's DVD Bible Study, Coffee Klatch Room

4:45 p.m.       Savior's Singers Children's Choir

5:15 p.m.       Baby & Toddler Care, Rooms 34-36

5:30 p.m.       Fellowship Dinner, Fellowship Hall

6:00 p.m.       Pastor Nominating Committee, Room 117

6:00 p.m.       Wednesday Night Kids

6:00 p.m.       Middle School Gathering

6:15 p.m.       Adult Learning Program, Fellowship Hall

7:00 p.m.       High School Small Groups

7:15 p.m.       Sanctuary Choir

7:30 p.m.       8:30 Worship Team, Fellowship Hall

Thursday, October 26

7:00 a.m.       Men's Bible Study, Parlor

12:00 p.m.     Noon Bible Study, Room 117