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Music Consortium Informational Meeting Planned
The Straight Church Recording Choir, at its first live recording session in Tampa in November.
Kevin B. Parrott is host- ing a Music Consortium In- formational Meeting on Saturday, January 30, 2016, 10:30 a. m. -12:30 p. m.
The informational ses- sions will be held at Beulah Baptist Institutional Church, 1006 W. Cypress St., Tampa (33606), Rev. Dr. W. James Favorite, pastor.
The session will include the Straight Church Record- ing Choir, West Central Florida Chapter National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses and Florida African-American Choral So- ciety.
Dr. K, as he is known, currently serves as the Minis- ter of Music and Sacred Arts
at the Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church of St. Petersburg.
He has received numerous awards and recognitions, which includes the Steve Har- vey Neighborhood Awards, JC Penny's Gospel Choir Compe- tition, and Rhythm of Gospel Awards, just to name a few.
Dr. Parrott is the newly
appointed Director of Educa- tion with the National Con- vention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses under the Dean of Education, Dr. Ulysses Moye'.
Live Recording 2017
The next recording for the “Straight Church As One Live
Recording 2” will be held in 2017. Meetings and rehearsals will begin in 2016. Those in- terested in participating – musicians, directors, soloists, choirs -- may sign up now.
For more information, go to conductorbernard@- gmail.com.
Surviving Disappointment
Lord, You alone are my guide, my companion, my strength, my life. I need no other to fulfill my expecta- tions, for all my hopes and expectations are in You. Show me what You want me to see. I refuse to allow dis- appointment to color my mind and emotions and out- look. I put You in charge of every detail of my life, even the pain I feel in my heart. Use it to perfect me and bring glory to You. Thank You for Your endless good- ness toward me. I lift my hands to You, and I trust that
the light I have is sufficient for what I face this day and this moment.
They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disap- pointed. PSALM 22:5 NIV
Lord, I know that times of disappointment are in- evitable because life can’t al- ways live up to our expectations. But when someone or some situation fails me, or I fail myself, help me to remember that the happiness and fulfillment I experience in life don’t de- pend on other people or situ- ations, they depend on You. You are all I need in every situation.
When I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the
LORD will be a light to me. MICAH 7:8
Lord, in times of great disappointment I will cling to You. As I walk through those times, teach me what You want me to learn. Reveal Your truth to me in every sit- uation. Help me to see it clearly for what it really is. Keep me from fretting over my circumstances or living in unforgiveness regarding them. I want to, instead, wait in Your presence for You to reveal Your goodness to me in the situation. I want to al- ways rest in You, knowing my life is in Your hands.
My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expecta- tion is from Him. PSALM 62:5
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