Winter 2014
Vigorously Academic · Beautifully Diverse · Thoroughly Christian
I Will Rise
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his Spring our desert kids of the sunny Southwest are making their way to the Pacific Northwest on their 10th choir tour. Rehoboth’s 50-student high school choir will be touring the area for several days of intense concerts, while also taking time to sightsee and explore the beauty of rural Montana and the dazzle of urban Seattle. The theme of this tour is “I Will Rise,” based on the Chris Tomlin song which celebrates the hearthealing power of Christ’s resurrection. “Christ’s resurrection is a promise that our broken world needs to hear. Whether it’s a student whose loved one died in a car accident or a student who goes home to a house plagued by alcohol abuse, we cry for new beginnings in both this world and the next,” remarks Gail DeYoung, one of the Choir Directors. “Our prayer too is that our students will experience the joy of the resurrection by spending time with each other and the body of Christ,” adds Choir Director, Bob Ippel.
one of the choir’s CDs, please visit our website, rcsnm.org. The concert program will feature our STOMP group. If you’re in the area, please come listen, learn, worship and support to our students.
Tour Schedule: Friday, March 21
2:35 p.m. · Manhattan Christian School (Manhattan, MT)
Sunday, March 23
10:00 a.m. · Bethel CRC (Manhattan, MT) 3:00 p.m. · The Churchill Retirement Home 6:00 p.m. · Manhattan CRC (Manhattan, MT)
Monday, March 24
Northwest Christian School (Spokane, WA) 7:00 p.m. · Crossover Church (Spokane, WA)
Tuesday, March 25
The choir will be singing at a Montana retirement home, and will also sing at local Christian schools, working together with their peers on songs for the joint concerts in the evenings.
2:00 p.m. · Sunnyside Christian School (Sunnyside, WA) 7:00 p.m. · Sunnyside CRC (Sunnyside, WA)
The choir recently completed recording their seventh album, “I Will Rise.” Songs from the album will be included in the tour program. For more information on the public concerts, or to purchase
11:30 a.m. · Shoreline Christian School (Seattle, WA)
Wednesday, March 26 Thursday, March 27
9:20 a.m. Lynden Christian High School (Lynden, WA) Lynden Christian Elementary School (Lynden, WA) 7:30 p.m. · Third CRC (Lynden, WA)
Sharing the Gift of Song
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s Eileen O’Brien Denner introduced David Brunner’s “I am in Need of Music” to Rehoboth Cantabile Choir in the fall of 2013, she asked the students to reflect on those who have a need for song, for hope, for healing, or for rest. And so began a moving rehearsal with a volunteer from Des Moines, Iowa, who helped the students musically express the important message of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem set to music: “I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips With melody, deep, clear and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song, sung to rest the tired dead. A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow…”
Eileen, a professional singer and vocal teacher for over 20 years, was introduced to the Rehoboth Choir when she hosted one of the directors during a tour in Iowa in 2010. Throughout the visit, Eileen’s passion for music in ministry became extremely evident. She shared how she often uses her music with hospice patients. Within a year of that first encounter, Eileen was at Rehoboth working with our choirs, coaching students for All State, and singing as a featured soloist in the annual Christmas Concert. On a Monday night this past October with Eileen, students began
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