Choir Practice Tomorrow…

We will be having a choir practice tomorrow at 7:30pm for Missions Conference.

See you all there!

Oh, and If you haven’t heard, we need to keep Sis. Gina Castellanos in our prayers.
She is going through some serious health issues, and we need to pray that God touches her.
She was originally at Doctors Medical Center, but has been transferred to Memorial Medical Center.

If you want more information on her room number, or if you’d like to go visit her, please email me at llopez@galloarts.org

God Bless!

Martha Munizzi Concert This Saturday

I’m excited to see what Martha Munizzi will bring to the Gallo Center For The Arts this saturday with her concert. From all the songs I’ve heard from her, I know that she has an amazing voice.

Also, I was speaking to Bro. Garza the other day, and he mentioned that she was originally from the United Pentecostal Church, before branching out into more…I guess you can say “Liberal” denominations…

If anyone is interested in going, there are seats left!
Contact me, or call the Gallo Center For The Arts at (209) 338-2100

See you all there!

Camp 2008 “Don’t let the Light Die”

Well, we’re back from Camp 2008, and as always, we wheren’t dissapointed.

I cant try to explain it, because everything that happened was amazing. Lets just say that if you missed it, well… try your hardest to go next year! Its so worth it!

Here are some pictures that I took during our 3 days there. Enjoy!

Lodgepole, our Cabin

During our Morning Service

Group Picture Time!

 

Church Tug-Of-War

Church Tug-Of-War. We beat them!!

Award Winners

The Modesto Group...most of them

Mendez Family

Espinoza Family

The Woodland, Ca Group.

 

Me and my mom at Yosemite after Camp

Some Brothers at Yosemite Falls

Anyways, Camp SugarPine 2008 was Amazing.

I hope to see you all there again next year!

God Bless!

Camp SugarPine 2008

Its that time of the year again!

Family Camp is right around the corner, and we’re all getting ready for it.
I’m excited about this years camp, because we will be having many branch churches coming with us!

Oakland, Manteca, Tracy, Salida, Woodland and us.
That’s going to be one big Party!

We will be having music practice on Moday, September 1st at 7:30pm with the Ensemble, and Choir Practice on Wednesday, September 3rd, at 7:30pm.

Here are some pictures of our past years at camp. Enjoy!!

The Girls at Camp

Posing with Half Dome

Having Fun Last Year. Pull, Pull!

The Group Last Year

Some of our Wonderful Preachers and Pastors

Pictures of our Combined Choir

 

Here are a few pictures that i’ve kept over the years of the combined choir singing together.

How time flies!!

In Red and Black

 

During Practice

 

Sunday Practice

 

Our first Choir, back in the early 90

 

The Choral during a Song

 

Our Charming Altos

 

Our Great Sopranos

 

And there’s many more, but i’ve got to go now. More later!

L

Songs For Missions Conference 2008

These songs are the ones we currently are considering to sing for missions conference. Still, they’re not set in stone, and they can change. If they do, we’ll update you.

Mi Anhelo Es Ser Mas Como Tu

Verse 1:
El Senor murio por ti, por mi en la cruz
Su sangre derramo por darte a ti
Su incomparable amor su imenza paz
Pago el precio de la humanidad
El te ofrece salvacion

Para poder llegar a el
para poder vivir en santidad
Pues todo lo que soy
Es nada sin El
Decide darte a el y el pondra
Su paz, su amor en ti

Verse 2: (Choir)
Te alabo por siempre Senor
Extiendo mis manos a ti
Te ofresco hoy a ti mi cancion
Toda honra Y Gloria te doy

Chorus:
Derrama tu poder, y gloria en mi
Moldeame para ser como tu
Senor Jesus, me rindo a ti
Mi anhelo es ser mas como tu

Bridge:
Mi anhelo es (Sopranos)
Ser mas (Tenors)
Como Tu (Altos)

 

Fuerte Dios

El es fuerte Dios
Todopoderoso Dios
El es fuerte Dios
Todopoderoso Dios, Si!

El es fuerte Dios
Todopoderoso Dios
El es fuerte DIos
Fuerte! Fuerte!

Nuestra lucha es contra potestad
No hay nada que temer
En el hay poder
Tinieblas no prevaleceran
Pues tenemos autoridad
En su nombre hay poder
La victoria esta en el

Poderoso fuerte en batalla
Rey de Reyes su nombre es digno
Santo, Digno de Gloria
Fuerte Dios, el es Fuerte Dios

Poderoso…
Rey de Reyes…
Santo…
La victoria esta en El!

Great Service Last Night

Well, having a “bilingual service” with only one week to prepare might seem like a recipe for disaster, but it all turned out great, Thank God.

The service was amazing, Our spanish choir did great, (although when i looked up at them I saw a bunch of sopranos standing on the Alto side. Hmmmm…)

Anyways, here’s a picture of the event:

The Spanish Combined Choir singing

Also, from where i was sitting, i was able to snap another great picture:

Panchito

He pulled ears all night

Anyways, today is our first practice for Missions Conference. I’m a little glad that they moved the dates back to October, because that gives us more breathing room. Anyways, I will see you all there tonight at 7:30pm. 

God Bless!

L

Missions Conference 08

Well, Fall is here.

You can tell by all the halloween merchandise that is slowly creeping into the stores; and most importantly, Missions Conference is back!

Here’s the latest news on that:

As you all know, Missions Conference usually falls on October, but this year, due to conflicts in schedules, it was rescheduled for September 26, 27, and 28th.

Which is also my birthday weekend (25th birtday)

Anyways, i was totally resigned to not having an actual birthday weekend, since we are so busy during that time.

Still….

We got good news the other day, when we where told that Missions Conference has been rescheduled back to October.

Horray!!

I’ll soon post some dates for Choir Practices. Meanwhile, the first practice is on MONDAY, August 25th at 7pm. See you all There!

 

Luis

June…Summer is here

Well, we all survived May!
That was one BUSY month! We had trips to Delano, CA, the “Extraordinary” Wednesday service at Revival Center, and finally, the Combined Service, which we where also asked to play for the service, as well as the usual 2 choir songs.

WHEW!! I think its time for a vacation….

Anyways, June is looking like its going to be a quieter month, but then again, that can change any time. For example, we where recently told about another service coming up in New London. Bro. Joel (the pastor from our Salida branch Church) stopped me at our monthly Yard Sale the other day and asked me if we could play for the service, as well as have the choir sing. Unfortunetly, that trip to New London also falls during Graduation week, so i really don’t think i’d be able to get the choir going with less than one week left until this saturday. And with 10% of the church family on vacation, I don’t think we’ll be able to. I feel bad for Bro. Joel, who says he doesn’t have anyone else to play. I honestly would go, and sing by myself if I had to, but that day (June 7th) is also the day we will be having an awards Ceremony at my work, and I promised Ian, our House Manager, that i’d take pictures of the ceremony.

So, that’s one thing that’s happened so far in June.
We have our Drama Department Yard Sales scheduled for the 13th and 14th of this month, at church.
All money will be used for the Drama Department’s summer production of “The Fire Still Falls”

I cant wait for THAT!!

May – Busier than expected

Well, I didn’t think May was going to be this busy, but its actually turning out to be one of the busiest months of the year so far.

First, we started off the month with a trip to Delano Ca, on May 3rd to play for a service. The choir was also invited, and about 60% of them where able to go. The service was great. That’s all I’m going to say.

Then, On May 4th, we had the usual Elder visitation, followed with Choir Practice, and then, Service.

I was scheduled to go to work from 5pm to 7:30pm, but my body had the good sense of shutting down because it was running on empty, so i just came home and fell asleep for two hours, waking up just in time to go to Drama Practice. (Which is going great)

Today, (May 7th) we have a special service at Revival Center. And yes, they have asked us to sing. So i’m excited about that. The scary thing is that this coming sunday will be mother’s day, and i don’t think we are completely prepared for it.

We’ll just have to wait and see…