Two themes determined the music I chose for this week: women and testimony. It is the Women's Missionary Society's anniversary, which we will be celebrating in church, and our service will centre around the practice of testimony.
In honour of the Women's Missionary Society's anniversary the women from the adult choir will be singing "Woman in the night" by Brian Wren and Alfred Fedak as our anthem. We did it earlier this year as a hymn (657) and they thought it would be a good choice for this Sunday and I agreed. Beyond that, I chose to only use female composers for the prelude, postlude, and offertory selections.
I have to say that finding songs about testimony seems to be a tricky thing! At least when pulling from my collection and especially when you are restricting yourself to female composers. The music industry is unfortunately still quite dominated by men, especially conductors and composers. I ended up with three pieces that I would say are related to testimony as opposed to about testimony. I've listed them below.
Prelude: You Pulled Me Through - by Diane Warren, arr. Carol Tornquist
Offertory: I've Got Peace Like a River - Trad., arr. Carol Tornquist
Postlude: Every Time I Feel the Spirit - Trad., arr. Carol Tornquist
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