When I began looking into the Carter catalog and came across 'Will My Mother Know Me There,' it seemed like such a joyful number and such a song of the spirit that I could hear them all singing it together.
I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.
...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.
Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.
Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.
I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was - all day long, they would pray by singing and humming.
