Prior to Easter 2023, I was approached by Major Cathy Simms, then corps officer at St. John’s Citadel, N.L., about the possibility of having a “small group of men sing on Palm Sunday.” The initial thought was that perhaps we could get a quartet together. We ultimately put together a group of 25 men who expressed an interest in the initiative.

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (Isaiah 43:19 NIV) New beginnings are inevitable. In Isaiah, we are told to not dwell on the past but to look and see the new things that our Creator is doing. He is inviting us into those new things. Here in