My
church, Knollwood Baptist,
means a great deal to me. It helps my life "take
wing and fly."
There,
I am composer-in-residence and also teach the Mary-Martha Sunday School Class, a group of
wise older women.
I'm
a member of the Devotional Life Committee.
This
spring, several of us are leading the Knollwood Women's Retreat,
at Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, NC. The theme is "Healing
Streams . . . God's Waters of Renewal." I've composed a
new work for it, "As Jesus Walked into the Stream."
In
addition to the church, during the fall of 2002 I kept busy
by teaching a 6-week course on the Arts
at the Shepherd's
Center and a session of an ad hoc Creative Writing course.
What wonderful people take courses such as these!
I
am affiliated with a group of women who meet weekly for what
we euphemistically term "Bible study." It's really
a time for sharing, supporting, eating, laughing, and growing.
We always have our Christmas party in January--no time in December!
You know the sort of group I'm describing, to be sure. Around
8-10 of us are in the group, some since 1985. I joined around
1989. Events and members of this group have "inspired"
some of my silliest musical creations. We meet next door to
Ann and Bob Listokin's.
