I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light

On December 7, 2008, Mt.Pleasant Chorale and Iowa Wesleyan College Choir gave a Christmas performance at the First United Methodist Church in Mt.Pleasant, Iowa, under the conductorship of Dr.Jamie Spillane.

The program included:
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” (Traditional) sang by the “Broad Street Connection”
“Christmas Soup” trans. Shaw/Broad Street Connection

Prelude “Low How a Rose ‘er Blooming Prof. Carl Moehlman – organ

Reading “In the Beginning” Karl Shafer

“O Come All Ye Faithful” congregation

Reading “O Light born of Light” Mosie Lasagna

“O Nata Lux” Guy Forbes

Reading “The brightness of your light” Aaron Warner

“Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light” congregation

“There Shall a star from Jacob Come Out of Jacob” Carl Moehlman – organ (from Christus) Felix Mendelssohn

Reading “All you who hunger for light” Ashlie Knipe

“Eternal Light” Aaron Zinter

Reading “Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens” Heidi Riepe

“Jesus, I Adore Thee” Stephen Caracciolo

Reading “And it came to pass” Birus Gwamma

“Rise Up Shepherd” arr. Ken Berg Madeline Sloat – alto solo

Reading “When they had seen him” Birus Gwamma

“I Believe This Is Jesus” arr. Undine S. Moore

Reading “Morning” V. Rosenroth Trisha Phelps (daughter of Terry and Barb Phelps)

“O Light Everlasting” Olaf Christiansen

Reading from “Paradise Lost” John Milton Tom Ellsworth

“Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing day” John Gardner Robyn Wilson – piano, Dr.David Johnson – percussion, Amanda Rodgers Stevenson – tambourine

“I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light” congregation Kathleen Thomerson

Reading “One single candle” Amy Shafer

“Hymn to the Eternal Flame” Michael Dennis Browne/Stephen Paulus

Reading “God is Light” Whitney Shepherd

“True Light” arr. Keith Hampton Joashua Lakes – baritone solo, Robyn Wilson – piano

“Silent Night” congregation Franz Gruber

“Joy to the World” congregation George Frideric Handel

Postlude “From heaven Above to Earth I Come” J.S.Bach Carl Moehlman – organ

Mt. Pleasant Chorale

Linda Albright, Cindy Ballou, Judy Bower, Cyndi Champlin, Caree Connet, John Connet, Ed Conwell, Adam Creager, Mindy Creager, Tom Ellsworth, Lynn Ellsworth, Cathy Ewing, Carleen Fedler, Debbie Freeberg-Renwick, Tim Freeberg-Renwick, Rosemary Gabriel, Betty Rae Geary, Jennifer Hamilton, J. Bernard Hultquist, Nancy Incorvia, Janice Johnston-Jones, Diana Juntunen, Sally Kinney, Mosie Lasagna, Carl Moehlman, Ardis Ogilvie, Lisa Pforr, Marti Puff, Heidi Riepe, Michael Riepe, Paula Sanders, Amy Schaefer, Karl Schaefer, Bernd Schoel, Brock Schultz, Rebecca Siberts, Roberta Statler-Meierotto, Amanda Stevenson, Mary Jo Toops, Diane Wickham

Iowa Wesleyan College Choir

Soprano
Tristan Chatten, Brandy Davis, Emma Franklin, Jennifer Klosterman, Ashlie Knipe, Kate Krzystofiak, Priscilla Marlar, Sarah Martin, Kelly Milligan, Jane Poor, Fairlight Schwartz, Kayleigh Septer, Whitney Shepherd, Katie Streeby, Heather Wilkins
Alto
Pamela Burns, Ashley Danielson, Mallory Ensminger, Cori Frey, Carlee Jenson, Natasha Lane, Kathy Machala, Trisha Phelps, Megan Ringgenberg, Kathy Rodine, Madeline Sloat, Jenna Varisco, Robyn Wilson
Bass
Hernan Hernandez, Joshua Lakes, jerry Lalaga, Jake Pilger, Zach Reiter, Jeremiah Weigert
Tenor
David Barry, George Goodlow, Joe Maddock, Adam Miller, Kereti Samon, Aaron Warner

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[bertie244]

Thank you for sharing this holy and inspiring hymn. Godspeed.

[rattypajamas]

Your welcome.  I like the alto line.

[Charlez1420]

@tommerrigan1956

you're praying to God via youtube?

go to a church for goodness sakes

[SlinkyDragon]

I love this hymn. It's one of my favorites. This one and 'Take and Eat.' ^_^

[vegangelist]

@wabbbb agreed... too rushed!

[tommerrigan1956]

Father,

I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures -- I wish no more than this, O Lord.

Into your hands I commend my soul; I offer it to you with all the love of my heart, for I love you Lord, and so need to give myself, to surrender myself into your hands, without reserve, and with boundless confidence, for you are my Father.

[curiouscentrist]

The beauty of this song is almost otherworldly.

[felicaesar]

wow interesting

[nurse523]

Absolutely beautiful!

[mkl62]

I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (August 15), I filled in at a local Lutheran Church. We sang this as the closing hymn. It is #815 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship.

[wabbbb]

Good hymn, but the tempo here is too fast.

[901cleo]

too fast.