Author: Markus Hauck (Markus Hauck)

From Markus Grae-Hauck, Director of Music Ministries If you missed the interfaith service on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, or if you just want to hear and see it again, you are in luck. Some of our intrepid technical wizards (including Jason Brome, Randy Crafton, Eileen Delahunty, Jerry Fried, Debbie Ann Tripoldi, and Rev. Scott...

From Markus Grae-Hauck, Director of Music Ministries What wondrous love is this, O my soul? What wondrous love is this that brings my heart such bliss and takes away the pain of my soul? When I was sinking down, sinking down When I was sinking down beneath my sorrow’s ground, friends to me gathered round,...

From Markus Grae-Hauck, Music Director  Recently in a worship planning session, we were discussing the distinction between performance and worship. According to the dictionary, to perform means “to do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain”; it is usually considered to be a way of presenting something in a way that...

From Markus Grae-Hauck, Music Director “The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.” – Marcel Proust You may have noticed that recently we have been repeating one of our gathering hymns every Sunday for a month at a time....

From Markus Grae-Hauck, Music Director The Return of the Holiday Choir If you have attended our candlelight service on Christmas Eve, you know that we always assemble a big choir for the occasion. We’re going to do it again – only this time you don’t have to wait a whole year. For Easter Sunday (April...

From Markus Grae-Hauck, Music Director Oh, freedom, oh, freedom… Oh, freedom over me…And before I’d be a slave…I’d be buried in my grave And go home to my God…And be free… These are the words from the first verse of “Oh, Freedom” (#156 in the grey hymnal). We sang this as the closing hymn on...