WORSHIP SCHEDULE

We have two worship services each Sunday Morning!

8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.

Professional Nursery care is provided during both services.
Church School will be available for children through 3rd grade
during the 11 o’clock service.

Pentecost Sunday

WHAT'S A COMPUTER MONITOR DOING ON TOP OF THE ORGAN?   

Some of you have been asking me this very question. In short, the monitor belongs to a computer that remembers everything I play into it from the organ. It allows me to play any piece into it slowly, but then can play it back at the desired tempo. Or preserve and play-back any performance of mine. Welcome to 2010.

 

This saves me hours and hours of practice-time. Granted, I must still learn to play the piece -- sometimes the keyboards are recorded first and then the pedals -- but I don't have to learn to bring any piece up to performance level tempo. The computer can do that for me. This saves the church electrical power, and me, several trips to the church each week, which in turn, saves me gas and car mileage, and more time to be with my friends and loved ones.

 

Bob Beaudoin worked for months to get the "sequencer" program that remembers what I've played to work properly.  Thank you, Bob! At first I thought the computer was going to be merely a performance-saving device. But after my doctor told me that I had an aneurysm in my heart's aortic valve, and ordered me to cut as much stress out of my life as was immediately possible, I realized this wonderful labor-and-stress-saving device was a God-sent solution, an answer to prayer before I even prayed for it. As usual, God knew what I would need, even before I knew I would need it. Thank you, Lord!

 

After learning that the computer was playing the organ for me, one person asked, "Are you ever going to play the organ again?" I laughed. "There's not one note that the computer plays back that I didn't play into it first," I explained. It merely provides some doctor-recommended stress removal. It also allows me to take a vacation, and provides protection for Cottonwood's Sunday, memorial and/or other services, should I ever become ill. If that happens, no need to find another keyboardist. "Grady-in-the-box" will be able to play any service, saving Cottonwood from having to find and hire a sub. As if anyone can FIND a sub-organist in the Wasatch Valley!

 

And there's still many pieces I play live. So... is it live, or "Grady-in-the-box"? You'll never know unless you watch me.  But there's one last added bonus to "Grady-in-the-box." When I finally need a memorial service of my own, no one will ever have to call in another organist. I'll just play my own memorial service myself, thank you. :-). 

 

Jim Grady, Organist and Choral Director        

FLOWER CALENDAR – 2010

The new 2010 flower calendar is on the bulletin board in the main hall and waiting for orders.  Please consider ordering flowers to honor or commemorate someone or something on any Sunday you choose.  Write your name and phone number in the space(s) provided.  You will be called for information regarding your order so it will be noted in the bulletin.  The flowers you choose will be ordered for you and placed in the sanctuary.  What could be easier?  For more information call Joyce Robison 801-272-7610 or Shari at the church office.  This is a service provided by the Worship Committee.