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Thanks to Trans World Radio, Sing For Joy is now being Broadcast in over 40 countries throughout Africa! Coverage is available via shortwave and FM radio, DStv and Vivid Satellite Service, and via internet streaming. This development is in addition to our Trans World Radio broadcasts in the United Kingdom. For more information on our international broadcast schedule,
click here.
We are constantly trying to make supporting Sing For Joy as easy as possible. Now, you can make your gifts online. please click here for more information. This wonderful and unique program depends heavily on support from its listeners, especially since it is offered free of charge to all stations.
As always, all gifts — large and small — make a difference and are greatly appreciated.
The Sing For Joy program can be heard on singforjoy.org as an on-demand archive — so you can listen to each show as many times as you want, whenever you want! We're thrilled to be able to offer this feature, thanks to St. Olaf College's wonderful copyright lawyers.
The archives will be listed alongside the weekly playlists so listeners can follow along. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments.
Sing For Joy's Pastor Benson and John Ferguson
recently led St. Olaf Cantorei and other area church choirs in two hymn festivals this past September; one in Deephaven, Minn. and the other on the St. Olaf College campus.
For more information on these hymn festivals and to watch and listen to the festival held at St. Olaf, please visit our Sing For Joy Hymn Festivals section!
Jeff O'Donnell's annual CD review and purchase information, printed in our July
newsletter, can be found here. Enjoy!
St. Olaf College, the owner and producer of Sing For Joy , recently had Sauder pews installed in the newly remodeled Boe Memorial Chapel. We thought we would take advantage of the opportunity and have our picture taken in front of the truck.
From the left: Janet Kringen Thompson, director of Church Relations; Jeff O'Donnell, producer and music director; Jennifer Rowe, communications coordinator; John Ferguson, music adviser; and Pr. Bruce Benson, host. Both Sauder Woodworking and Sauder Manufacturing Companies are major sponsors of Sing For Joy.
If you are so inclined, please drop them a note letting them know how much you appreciate their support of Sing For Joy. They would appreciate hearing from you!
For a larger view of the picture above, please click on it.
In the Autumn 2006 edition of
The Hymn, Sharon L. Beckstead positively reviewed the CD
Home, Harvest and Healing: A Sing For Joy Hymn Festival. She writes "this hymn festival has something for everyone," and that "the concept, choice of selections and format are to be commended."
If you would like to have "a festival of this caliber available in your home—perhaps your own personal thanksgiving celebration," you can purchase this and other
Sing For Joy recordings from
St. Olaf Records, or by calling 507-786-3646.
The quotations above were reprinted from The Hymn 57:4 (Autumn 2006) by permission of
The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.
In the Fall of 2005, Sing For Joy went on the road in a series of hymn festivals to Milwaukee; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cleveland; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Chicago and concluding back home at St. Olaf College in Boe Memorial Chapel. (For more information on the tour, please visit this
link.) The St. Olaf Cantorei, conducted by John Ferguson, led the festivals with commentary provided by radio host and college pastor Bruce Benson. This newly released CD is a compilation taken from recordings made at three locations —x Cleveland, Fort Wayne and at home.
The CD's liner notes state, "We hope this live recording allows you to experience the spontaneity and delight that comes when God's people gather for prayer and praise. So now, please join us as we sing for joy." To make joining in easier, Pastor Benson's commentary and the text for the hymns are included with the CD.
To purchase this or any of the wonderful Sing For Joy CDs, please visit the Resources section of our site. |
