FreeSpirit Annual Report 2022

Group Name:

Free Spirit (Choir)

Purpose, Aim or Mission of the Group:

Music can warm the soul and bring us closer to the Lord! Free Spirit is a group of people who aim to enrich worship through music - and sometimes have some fun with other types of music as well. Free Spirit is regularly part of the worship at the Glen Waverley Uniting Church, but also likes to be part of worship with other congregations from time to time.

Free Spirit is self-funding; each member contributes $1 per week, used to buy music and cover other expenses.

Free Spirit operates under a privacy policy in accordance with Glen Waverley Uniting Church guidelines.

Current Office Bearers (for 2023):

• Music director: DebLeigh

• Music selection and purchase: DebLeigh

• Music management

  • Music Database: to be maintained by JohnSnare who will add music when it is purchased.

  • New music: LiseHales to stamp/number/name/prepare music, ready for use.

  • Music monitors: (at least 1 monitor for each part but other assistance will be required at times.)

    • Sop – EvelynFleming

    • Alto – MariaGillies

    • Tenor – YanEmms & JacobDavey

    • Bass - MichaelKennedy & MichaelFoo

• Performance calendar/schedule: JohnSnare – updates on schedule on wiki

• Roll & performance record: VidaFoo

• Friends of Free Spirit register: GeoffWillis

• Scarves and ties: JoyAllen

• Pastoral support (Prayer and care): JoyAllen (sop), JacquiKing (alto), KayeMorgan (Tenor) and MichaelFoo (Bass)

• Treasurer: JohnSnare

• Historian: JohnSnare

• Supper roster: MargaretColvin

• Stage managing events: LynMaslen

Membership numbers:

36 members plus some occasional visitors

Usual meeting attendance:

30 members

Meeting times and days:

Practice weekly on Wednesday evenings.

Singing at worship or other events in both with Glen Waverley Uniting Church and elsewhere up to twice a month, including with Glen Waverley Uniting Church worship on the fourth Sunday of each month (except December and January) alternating between 9:15am and 11:00am services.

A small group from Free Spirit members contributed to worship at 11:00am on the second Sunday of many months (but not January and December)

Locations used by Group:

Practice is held in the Church.

Highlights of the year:

Free Spirit’s contributions to worship and mission were as follows.

||27 Feb 2022 ||10:00am ||Every Time I Feel The Spirit

• Forever Reign ||GWUC ||

||4 Mar 2022 ||6:30pm ||Every Time I Feel The Spirit

• Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Humpty Dumpty The Glory of Love Fire Down Below

  Rhythm of Life ||Hampton Park Uniting Church ||

||20 Mar 2022 ||10:00am ||Every Time I Feel The Spirit

• A Place in the Choir Canine Christmas Concerto plus modified-word hymns: All Things Bright and Beautiful How I Need my Precious Canine (What a Friend we Have in Jesus) My dog - In Appreciation (Thank You)

  You Shall Go Out With Joy. ||Heatherton Dingley Uniting Church ||

||27 Mar 2022 ||10:00am ||O Love

• Forever Reign ||GWUC ||

||17 April 2022 ||10:00am ||King of Kings

• I Will Rise ||GWUC (Easter Day) ||

||24 April 2022 ||11:00am ||O Praise the Name

• In Flanders Fields ||GWUC ||

||22 May 2022 ||2:00pm ||Introducing Free Spirit (chant)

• Requiem

  Where shall I be? ||GWUC (concert) ||

||26 June 2022 ||10:00am ||Joy in the Morning

• The Prayer ||GWUC ||

||28 August 2022 ||11:00am ||As we sail to Heaven's Shore

• I Will Sing Your Glory and Praise

  The Prayer (chorus, bars 14-21) ||GWUC ||

||25 Sept 2022 ||9:15am ||The Stand

• We Wait for Thee ||GWUC ||

||16 Oct 2022 ||10:00am ||This is the Day

• Joyful, Joyful

  And Wherever You Go ||GWUC (Alanee Hearnshaw farewell) ||

||23 Oct 2022 ||11:00am ||Prayer of the Children

• The Stand ||GWUC ||

||25 Nov 2022 ||11:00am ||You Raise Me Up

• Come Home ||GWUC – Alan Cook’s funeral ||

||25 Dec 2022 ||8:30am ||Christmas Sanctus

• O Come, All Ye Faithful (Pentatonix version) ||GWUC ||

Any needs that Church Council can assist:

None identified.

Report prepared by:

JohnSnare

Date: 31/12/22