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 Marla