Over two Saturday afternoons in February, the talents and achievements of young musicians in the Ontario Central-East Division were celebrated. On February 14, 16 groups of instrumentalists, singers and dancers from half of the corps in the division joined the divisional young people's band, Blood and Fire Brass, at North York Temple. The audience and musicians were welcomed with words from 2 Chronicles 5:13-14.
The following Saturday, groups from Peterborough, Whitby, Oshawa, Scarborough and Pickering joined the Divisional Youth Chorus at Oshawa Temple. The style of music presented was as varied as the groups. From contemporary praise, worship and dance to traditional hymns and band arrangements, the young people proficiently demonstrated the many forms musical worship can take.
A highlight of both afternoons was the massed choirs, singing Let There be Peace on Earth as well as the massed bands, playing Jeremy Smith's, Praise and Glory, composed for the occasion.
Photo: Participants join together in a massed chorus, under the leadership of Jane Lam, to sing Let There be Peace on Earth
these events and will cherish these memories like I do today when people did it for when I was their age. Please keep up the good work! God will reward
you someday. Now lets see other Divisions do the same thing for their kids
it they haven't already done so.