Monday, March 7, 2016

"With Hearts and Hands and Voices" March 6, 2016

Rev. Jason Shelton
March 6, 10:30 a.m.: "With Hearts and Hands and Voices"   Rev. Jason Shelton
This Sunday we will have an opportunity to hear from one of Unitarian Universalist's best known and most prolific composers, Rev. Jason Shelton. Rev. Shelton will speak about value and purpose of the language of reverence and spirituality in Unitarian Universalist worship music and how it enhances and enlivens our worship experience and our lives. Rev. Shelton is in Seattle serving as the clinician for the Puget Sound Unitarian Universalist Music Festival.


Unitarian Universalist composer Rev. Jason Shelton is one of our faith's most prolific composers and he is best known to our congregation for his hymns "Standing on the Side of Love", "The Fire of Commitment", and "Morning Has Come" among others. Our teal hymnal has many of his arrangements as well and our vocal ensembles have sung his choral arrangements with some frequency. Rev. Shelton, who is from Nashville, is in the area to serve as the clinician for the Puget Sound Unitarian Universalist Music Festival and will be leading a worship service on Sunday afternoon along with the 160 voice Festival Choir, and our pianist and drummer John Hansen and Larry Jones, 4:00pm at the Kirkland Performance Center.  A freewill offering will be taken.