Music and Arts
Asbury has a comprehensive music program with opportunities for all ages, abilities, and tastes! Children, youth, students, and adults contribute their time, energy, and talents to praise God throughout the seasons of the church year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Eastertide, Pentecost, and the Sundays in Ordinary Time. Worship at Asbury UMC includes music of all styles and periods from Gregorian Chant to Contemporary Praise Songs. Instruments and voices unite in praising God in a variety of ways each week. Individual and group opportunities exist not only for worship leadership, but also spiritual and musical growth, fellowship, and service to the community.
The following art forms enrich weekly worship:
Music: Classical, Multicultural, Gospel, Praise
Drama: Skits, Puppetry, Storytelling, Clowning, Mime
Movement: Liturgical Dance, Sign Language
Visual Arts: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Woodcarving, Pottery, Stained Glass, Quilting, Banners, Needlepoint, Photography, Graphic Design, Bulletin Boards, Costumes, Set Design, Culinary Arts, Flowers/Plants, Videography, Cinema, Computer Graphics
Please share your talents with us!
Our pride and joy are the Steinway piano, purchased in 1994 through generous gifts, and the 37-rank Möller-Letourneau pipe organ, renovated and enlarged in 1997, enhance congregational singing and provide sensitive and colorful accompaniments to voices and instruments. Both instruments handle the full range of solo and ensemble literature.
Faith finds dynamic expression through the arts. At Asbury UMC, we celebrate the talents of those who make this church their home. The staff and lay leadership cherish those gifts which make visible and audible the spiritual journey. We extend the invitation to all to connect their talents and their faith. Now is the time to claim the opportunity to enrich the spiritual journey of this church and to make it your own. Together, we are able to bring new vitality and great joy to the personal and corporate expression of our Christian identity. Come younger, come older, come beginner, come accomplished. COME ALL!!
