Choir Ministry
The main objective of St. Luke’s Choir is to sing for God’s glory – To be :
“A tool for Propagating and proclaiming God’s message through music while endeavouring to touch the heart of God’’ .
Through music and its leadership in worship in church, we aim to:
- Inspire the congregation; connecting peoples’ hearts with God and inspire one to offer human Best Sacrifice to God.
- Encourage the broken-hearted with God’s message through Music that edifies- reminding people Bible Truths.
- Be preachers as gospel music is a great tool for evangelism.
- To lead in worship as we praise God, proclaiming the Gospel and to lead God’s people (Congregation/Audience) into deeper knowledge and experience of Him through music
- To prepare for church services; Supporting the Gospel Message (Sermon)through appropriate songs selection ranging from Hymns arrangement, Classical music ,Gospel songs to Spirituals. etc.) and special events and programs eg. Easter, Christmas, weddings, Afternoon of Songs and others.
- To promote / serve as a Fellowship Group outside of our rehearsal time for faith formation, standing in the gap of hopelessness and pain by declaring what God has done, is doing and will do through Music.
- To promote and develop choral music to members, driving excellence and personal-fulfilment.
- To participate in and have gospel outreach within and without church and to participate in Diocesan Music Festivals and/or any Religious Music Festivals approved by Choir Committee and Church Leadership.
Vision
To be ‘The Choir that creates a culture of excellence in self-motivation, personal-fulfillment, and spiritual nourishment through music’.
Mission
We serve the Lord Jesus Christ by cultivating performance excellence through singing that generates outstanding results. We fulfill this promise through our core competencies: Training and education, Assessment and feedback, Recognition and Awards, Networking and Sharing of Best Practices.
Choir History and Growth
The St. Luke’s Parish choir was formed in the year 2002. Like all major institutions, the beginning was humble.
With a minimal congregation the Rev. Humphrey Muraguri, 1st Vicar initiated the choir, through the need to support congregants sing hymns and other music. It’s presence enhanced Worship and Praise through therapeutic hymns and worship songs. At first, few members(between 15-20) joined with Edgar Omondi as the first Choirmaster assisted by Mr. Steve Kodjo.
To encourage membership growth, the Vicar and PCC spearheaded the choir’s rise by providing the pioneer Choir members with the liturgical purple robe(still in use) and an individualized navy blue uniform. This motivated growth of membership.
Benard Owiti joined the choir in 2005 and assumed the role of the Choir Master. The choir participated in archdeaconry music festival under class B category but never reached Diocesan level. However, this did not dampen the group and continued to participate in other festivals.
William Kinyamasyo took over as the Choir Master in the year 2008 and led the Choir until 2010 before he got a job opportunity in Jordan and left behind a vibrant Choir.
Kennedy Lihambo took over the mantle as the Choir master in 2011 up-to 2020. Under him and the chairmanship of Erastus Kathei and the committee, the choir membership grew to over 40 members. The dynamics of membership has been changing as a result of members relocation and transfers and others opting to take leave. The Choir performances improved and we participated in several activities of mission within and without church.
Later in 2020, Victor Otiende joined St. Luke as the Choir Director. Tremendous improvement has been noted over a short time mainly 2021 to date.
Choir members’ commitment to practices and support to the team has been tremendous over the years.
NB: Choir membership is open to any member of ACK. St. Luke Church, regardless of age. Commitment is the key to a Successful member.
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- Telephone : 0710 286867
- Email : info@ackstlukesumoja.org
- Umoja, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Telephone : 0710 286867
- Email : info@ackstlukesumoja.org
- Umoja, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Telephone : 0710 286867
- Email : info@ackstlukesumoja.org
- Umoja, Nairobi, Kenya