Music Ministries

Chancel Choir

Handbell Choir

The Chancel Choir is the main worship-leading choir of the Music Ministries. We help lead worship for the 10:30 a.m. Service of Worship almost every Sunday as well as present or participate in special seasonal services and/or concerts.  We rehearse on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in the choir room and meet at 10:00 a.m. to warm-up and rehearse on Sundays prior to the 10:30 a.m. traditional worship service.
 
In our capacity as worship leaders, we focus on bringing glory to our Lord through our musical offerings, bringing beauty, comfort, hope, and inspiration through the messages of the music we sing to the congregation, and, prayerfully, soften the hearts of the people to make way for the word of God to be heard. We also have a great fellowship of fun, warm, loving members who enjoy being together. We invite anyone who loves to sing and has a teachable spirit to join us!
We have bells available to ring 4-octaves (plus the big C) by Malmark Handbells. We regularly play for the 10:30  a.m. Service of Worship and have also participated in the Music Ministries’ Advent/Christmas performances, the annual area Winter Ring, present a Spring Concert, and occasionally travel to other venues to perform, as invited. Basic music reading skills are required for this ensemble.

Our Organ-The Visser-Rowland Organ

The organ contains approximately 2,500 board feet of oak, 1,500 board feet of poplar, and 1,200 linear feet of laminates.  Besides the large quantities of those woods mentioned, smaller portions of beech, maple, cocobolo, satinwood, and others were also used.  One thousand three hundred, twenty-eight pipes are found in the instrument.  They range in size from 1/4 inch to 9 feet tall.  When played, the organ will produce a frequency range from 64 to 14,000 cycles and from 15 to 110 decibels.

The tonal design of the organ was developed in consultation with Dr. Michael L. Corzine of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.  Our goal was to develop an organ able to fulfill the worship needs of First United Methodist and an instrument which would be a gift to God from the congregation.

All of us at Visser-Roland Associates have tried very hard to make this instrument worthy of the church's goals.  We hope it will stand for many years to fulfill the mission of the First United Methodist Church of Bainbridge, Georgia.

Pieter A. Visser
President, Visser-Rowland Associates, Inc.
Houston, Texas
March 22, 1987