ST. JOSEPH’S CHOIR

Enjoy singing…but don’t have a lot of time to commit to rehearsals and year-round Masses? Then consider being apart of our St. Joseph’s Choir. We are looking for all parishioners, students, families; all ages... all you need is the love of singing! Join the St. Joseph's Parish Choir and share your talent in singing and praising God. "He, who sings, prays twice."

Michael Sweeney
In-charge of Music Ministry

ORGAN FUNDRAISING

 Wow—wasn't that great timing? By now you've probably heard that file St. Joseph's Choir has began raising funds to replace the church organ, which is beginning to Show its age. The current organ began showing problems just after Christmas 2004. Recently during a practice, one of the notes stopped working. Earlier in the year a speaker needed repairs, and another one is due for rep airs how. The bottom line is in corning years we can pay a lot of money to repair the or­gan, but technology has come so far that with some effort by members of the choir, and with the generosity of me community, we can raise funds to replace the organ with amazing instrument. Talk of replacing the organ began in early 2005, with the knowledge that it would take a year to raise the funds.

 Members of the choir know expensive life can be, and how often we’re asked to contribute to this or that. Our bills and taxes never seem to go down, do they? At a time when you’re being asked to donate more to your parish in time and money, as well as to Missionaries and Hurricane Katrina funds, the last thing any of the choir members want to do is asked for more money, but the reality is that it will delay itself just because we want it to.

No, we're going to start working on the problem today, so we don't find ourselves stuck in the future. You can say we’re trying to head off a problem before it occurs.

 Please only consider donating to the Church organ fund if you can afford to do so. We prefer that you take care of other things first, like paying your taxes and increasing your donation to the weekly collection, if possible. Then, after all your bills are paid, if you have some extra funds to work with, we hope you'll consider donating to the organ fund. As of this time, the choir has already raised $9,500.00.

 The new church organ will glorify not the organ­ists that play it, nor the choir; nor the parishioners. The new church organ will glorify God. He de­serves the very best we're capable of_, so that's what we're going to try to do.

 Sincerely,
Members of the St. Joseph’s Choir