2008 Devotionals

Members of our congregation were asked to write some devotionals to make up a collection and to be read during services in November. Below is a sample of one of those deveotionals. View entire devotional booklet as a PDF.

Thank You for My Life

Dear God, thank you for my life on this earth, however challenging or not.

Thank you for giving me free will to love and be loved, to make my own decisions, to learn from my mistakes, to laugh when I am happy, to cry when I am sad.

Thank you for my family, my pets, and for every other living creature I meet along my journey.

Thank you for giving me the strength to overcome adversity, to do what’s right for the benefit of others, and to rise above negativity.

Thank you for giving me hope for an end to world suffering, pain and war for a better world filled with light and everlasting love.

Christ Church United Methodist Fine Arts Ministry

The Fine arts council at Christ Church United Methodist has a primary focus to support the arts and bring quality art in many forms to the people of Christ Church. This committee along with the director of music is dedicated to this task and is open to suggestions from the congregation and is always looking for new members who share the same passion for fine arts. If you are interested in joining or have ideas that you would like brought before the committee please contact Linda Jones, Fine Arts Chair.

Below is a list of events that the Fine Arts Council is bringing to Christ Church for the beginning of 2009 along with information about our beautiful organ.


October 25, 2009   Arizona Choir and Symphonic Choir
Bruce Chamberlain & Elizabeth Schauer, Conductors
3:00 in the Sanctuary
November 22, 2009   Thanksgiving Music Presentation
CCUM Chancel Choir and Bell Choir
During the 10:30 service
December 20, 2009   Christmas Music Presentation
CCUM Chancel Choir and Bell Choir
During the 10:30 service
January 31st, 2010  

30 Year Anniversary Organ Recital
3:30 pm in the Sanctuary
Janet Tolman, Organist 
February 28, 2010  

Tucson Chamber Artists
Eric Holton, Conductor
2:00 pm in the Sanctuary
Presenting:
Bach Jesu, meine Freude and Faure Requiem
March 10, 2010  

Hymns of America:
Contemporary Settings of Early American Hymns
Jennifer Wortman, Conductor
7:00 pm in the Sanctuary

April 18th 2010  

Chancel Choir Concert
12:00 pm in the Sanctuary
Anthony Bernarducci, Conductor 
Janet Tolman, Organist 
May 19, 2010  

Catalina Foothills High School
Concert Chorale
Anthony Bernarducci, Conductor
7:00 in the Sanctuary

                                                             

 

Christ Church Schlicker Organ

The organ for Christ Church was designed and built by the Schlicker Organ Company, Buffalo, New York, with University of Arizona Professor of Organ Roy Johnson serving as consultant. It consists of 41 ranks and 2,211 individual pipes. These voices are playable on a console of 3 manuals and pedal.

Slider chests are employed to attain good pipe speech. The actual voicing of the pipes is done in the classic manner with little or no nicking of the languids. This allows the pipe speech and tone to be clean and clear and permits the organ to have brilliance and power without being oppressively loud.

The materials used in the manufacture of the organ include oak for the console and visible casework, cherry and poplar for the wood pipes, poplar for all wooden parts of the instrument, tin and lead for the metal pipes. The large metal pipes are made of pure annealed zinc. Other pipes contain metal of 40–75% tin, depending on the type of stop.

Quoted with permission of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists"