Morning, Good morning, Malcolm Malcom. It's time now for our community connection
and today we have Way Daniel with and we've got a big event coming up.
Tell us what's coming our way here? Well, thank you, Tom.
We do have a big event coming on here at First Baptist Church on
Sunday evening, April the twenty eighth, at six pm, we're doing the
musical of praise gathering for believers. It's called Allelujah. And what's so unique
about this this is well, it's like fiftieth year anniversary of this musical and
it actually came out in nineteen seventy three, so this is the fifty first
year, I guess you could say. But it is a fabulous musical.
It was the first musical that Bill and Gloria Gaither produced that was used in
churches all across America. And in nineteen ninety three the orchestration and some of
the vocal lines were redone, and anyway, it's still essentially the same musical
presentation. It's going to be absolutely amazing. In fact, the songs that
you know of the Gaithers, Bill and Gloria Gaither Gosh the song that's most
familiar, of course, because it lives, I can face tomorrow, and
we certainly have found that to be true each and every day of our life,
and seem like more and more that that song is becoming more of a
theme. And so this is a timeless classic. And during that presentation you'll
hear many, many of the songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither. Now when
you talk about the Gaithers, you're talking about musical legends regardless of genre.
Their volume of music that they put out over the years is just well,
first of all, it's voluminous and it's timeless. Well, that's true.
Or they have written more than seven hundred songs and a dozen of timeless musicals.
As you mentioned, they were named ASCAPS Christian Songwriters of the Century in
two thousand. Along with the long list of special honors with Grammy Awards and
Devil Words, they were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. So
it is quite something. But this particular narrative is going to take us,
this particular musical from the creation, to the fall of man, to the
restoration and then to what's awaiting the Christian that is Heaven, their eternal home.
So what's so interesting, We're going to have about seventy singers and the
thirty piece orchestra, so there'll be one hundred people up on the platform.
And it will involve our church, the First Baptist Church of Bartlesville, and
also the First Baptist Church of Collinsville, so those two choirs are combined.
And then we have quite the orchestra, many from Bartlesville, some from Tulsa.
Comprising is simply it's almost like a lot of the Barninfild Symphony members will
be here playing in that presentation, and it's going to be quite an event.
It's going to be very, very exciting. And what you'll see,
you'll see some biblical characters that will come out. You'll see Peter, you'll
see the tax collector, you'll see the woman at the well, you'll see
a blind man. And then you'll hear personal testimonies the people that are in
the choir and how the Lord has interacted in their life and how they came
to know him and what a difference he makes in their life. So no,
if you think you've seen this before, you really have it, because
I get the feeling every time this is performed just a little bit different.
Well, you're so right about that, Tom. And over the years at
First Baptist Church, we've been fortunate to reach out to the community with these
concerts, whether it be the Living Christmas Tree or the Living Lafe Supper,
or the Praise Southern Style or the Heavenly Night of Music. It's just been
a great time and it's just so great and one thing that will appeal.
This will appeal to all ages. This music, like you say, is
timeless. But there's another ministry that we have at the church that I'm involved
with, and that's called fifty five plus Third Monday Big Event. In fact,
we're going to have the Third Monday in the month of April. We're
going to have our guests doctor Everett Piper, and as we move further down
the way, we have others coming. We have Doug Anderson, professional comedian
magician. He's going to be with us for a Cinder del event in May.
And then we have Kay Little historian, and then we're going to have
Wade Burlison coming to speak on Abraham Lincoln's role in connection to Oklahoma and even
specifically to Enid. And then we have Paul Vick, prison chaplain and singer
evangelists coming. Then we have, gosh, We've got the Linda Barton Paul
the inspirational harpist coming. Oh so once a month a third Monday, big
event. This is open to any senior adult in our community fifty five and
older that would like to come call the church. You had a time one
week ahead, a time, sign up for the catered meal, and then
enjoy the inspirational entertainment. It's just good to be together, like minded in
faith and just to enjoy some inspirational encouragement that we all need. Well goodness
sake. You just have a little bit going on there, well, a
little this, that and the other. And I tell you it's interesting along
my path of deal. You know, I am a gosh. I'm going
to be approaching well sixty five in just another month or so, and so
I've kind of expanded my enterprises before things i'll do down the road. I'm
tuning pianos and continue to teach piano. In fact, I performing I'm on
the piano. I was a guest soloist with the Bartivillo Symphony on two occasions
twenty nineteen, most recently this concert year, I performed on the piano and
the harpsichord concerto by one of Back's sons with the symphony. So Lauren Green
and the Symphony just a terrific thing happening here. But there's a lot of
good things happening in our community at First Baptist Church. And we won't extend
the invitation to anyone and everyone invited friend to come because that evening is going
to be amazing. You'll recognize some people that go beyond just our church,
and that is a couple of other churches have a few people coming to help
us. We have Rose Hill Baptist Church and First Baptist Dewey, Virginia Avenue.
Some of those folks are there in Monte Hall. The director of missions
the Washington Old s Age Baptist Associations going to be helping to narrate, and
our interim pastor at First Baptist Church, Greg Simmons, is going to be
there as well several soloists and it's just going to be an exciting, exciting
time. We'll have, well, we'll have just a great time. When
you think about these songs, there's something about that name. Uh. Even
Mark Wright from First Baptist Church, do He's gonna be singing a solo in
there, Yes, and we've got the longer I serve Him. This is
a song that talks about someone who's who has sent, has spent their life
serving the Lord, and now as a senior adult, testifying what God has
done throughout his life. We'll hear from them, and then we'll hear test
one of somebody that had a life that was wrecked by some wrong choices,
and then how the Lord Peace sat back together. And then a lady that's
dealing with some challenges in life and how the Lord had helped her to overcome
those. And it's just going to be exciting. In fact, one of
the last songs that we're going to sing in that musical is called get all
Excited. Go tell everybody that Jesus Christ is alive and well and he can
make a difference in your life. My goodness. It's all coming up on
April twenty eighth, First Baptist Church, Allelujah, Praise gathering for believers and
you will not you will not want to miss it. And what is the
cost of getting People are going to be asking do I have to have a
ticket? You do not have a ticket. All you have to do is
show up. Your presence is your ticket. You show up and be there.
And I tell you what. It's our prayer that whenever the program is
finished, that you won't say, hey, what a great job the choir
did. What a great program that was. We hope the people will say,
what a great God that loves us and gave his son for us.