BI Choir Director

One of the ministries I am a part of this semester at the Temuco Bible Institute is being the student choir director. On the last Friday night of every month, all the BI students gather to practice several new songs in preparation for their monthly "BI Promotional Sunday" in surrounding churches.

Photos from our first practice back in April. I am trying to pick some songs that are new (to them) and also have the theme of Serving the Lord.

Chileans are very good at hearing a melody and learning it quickly. Most play or sing by ear. One of the challenges is to convert the North American guitar chords into the South American format so that several students can play with the choir.

Above: A short run through before the evening service at our first BI Sunday at the Mackenna church in Temuco. Besides our special musical number, we (as a choir) planned to teach the congregation two hymns from their hymnal. Many churches in Chile, don't know a large majority of the hymns and songs in their own hymnal, because they can't read music.

The following video should give you the highlights from our first BI Promotion Sunday.



BI Students, Mauren & Bernardo. They plan to get married in Feb. 2011. Pray for them as they desire to serve the Lord. It would be a great answer to prayer if they would go into full time ministry upon their completion of their studies.

The BI Promotion Sunday ended with a coffee & cookie fellowship time. This gave more opportunity for the church members to mingle and talk with the BI students.

Pray for me as I direct the BI choir this semester. It's not a lot of work, but it is something that needs to be done, and I am glad to do it. Pray that our choir will be a musical and spiritual blessing to the churches we minister in throughout the semester.