{"id":2681,"date":"2008-11-17T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2010-12-22T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:45:42","slug":"6706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2008\/11\/17\/6706\/","title":{"rendered":"North Park Gospel Choir Has Audience On Its Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Stan Friedman<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO, IL (November 17, 2008) \u2013 Michele Thomas stood backstage trembling with tears rolling down her cheeks following the North Park University Gospel Choir\u2019s 15th Anniversary Concert on Saturday night.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cI never saw this 15 years ago,\u201d she said, pausing to wipe another tear. \u201cMy heart is just so full.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Thomas was a freshman at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Park University<\/a> when she approached school officials, asking for their support in starting a gospel choir. That year 15 people began rehearsing, and the number of participants swelled to 40 by the time the choir performed its first full-length concert on Mother\u2019s Day in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/uploads\/9f\/P6\/9fP6o-MV41-flzOD43MgZw\/Choir-a.jpg\" alt=\"Choir\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" \/>On Saturday night, 200 choir members and Thomas were joined by roughly 40 alumni from around the country, a liturgical dance team from Cleveland, Ohio, and famed gospel composer Richard Smallwood. Eight hundred people attended the concert held at the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on the campus of Northwestern University. The event was moved offsite to accommodate the large audience.<\/p>\n<p>The North Park University Gospel Choir has criss-crossed the country, entertaining and ministering to thousands of people at Evangelical Covenant churches. Their concerts also are among the most popular events on campus, where their concerts routinely attract standing-room-only crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was one of only a few students with any experience of hearing or singing gospel music when she entered North Park. \u201cI just wanted to share gospel music with other students,\u201d Thomas recalled. \u201cI wanted to bring them into that world and feel the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was no plan to grow a large, established choir. \u201cThe vision I had was just to praise God,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/uploads\/-W\/Ru\/-WRuYo8TOE2DTI8IIwQ22w\/Choir-c.jpg\" alt=\"Singer\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" \/>Saturday night, it seemed as if everyone among the performers and audience did share in that experience. Thomas was not the only performer overwhelmed by the music. \u201cThis was an exciting out-of-body experience for me,\u201d said Director Rollo Dilworth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was one of the most incredible nights for me \u2013 not just musically, but in my whole life,\u201d declared Dilworth, who has guided the choir since 1996 and has been asked to direct choirs around the world. \u201cI will be forever changed!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what I believe heaven is going to be like,\u201d Dilworth continued. \u201cThis was all a glimpse of God\u2019s glory!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also making a noted appearance throughout the concert was Mary Bridget Kustusch, who started North Park\u2019s Gospel Sign Language Choir. Kustusch, a 2004 North Park graduate, formed the choir in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing that the Sign Language Choir had continued and grown was \u201csurreal,\u201d said Kustusch, who returned for the night from Raleigh, North Carolina, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in physics at North Carolina State University.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/uploads\/T5\/gy\/T5gypd82oy9lV1WWWg-8hA\/Choir-d.jpg\" alt=\"Dancer\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" \/>Like Thomas, Kustusch didn\u2019t know what she was starting during her time at the school. \u201cI had no idea it would continue,\u201d she said with amazement.<\/p>\n<p>The audience\u2019s appreciation was expressed throughout the evening\u2019s performance, beginning with extended applause as the choir entered and punctuated throughout with shouts of \u201camen\u201d and hands raised in praise. Afterwards, audience members described the evening as \u201camazing\u201d and incredible!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The guiding text for the evening was Philippians 3:12-14: \u201cNot that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.\u201d (TNIV)<\/p>\n<p>That theme of journey and pushing forward to a greater calling was echoed throughout the program. The Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble, with participants as young as age six through middle age, joined the 200 voices on \u201cAin\u2019t A That Good News,\u201d a traditional spiritual arranged by Dilworth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/uploads\/GL\/t-\/GLt-ilcAq8I1mweOkcCpvQ\/Choir-e.jpg\" alt=\"Singer two\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" \/>Audience members said they were humbled and excited by the visual of children who were not alive during the Civil Rights movement carrying on a tradition that inspires them to advance the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas presented a solo of John P. Kee\u2019s \u201cBread of Heaven.\u201d The alumni choir joined the other singers on the rousing \u201cHe Reigns Forever\u201d that cooked with the heat supplied by a brass section and alum David Johnson on vibraphone.<\/p>\n<p>The first half ended with campus pastor Judy Peterson reading from Revelation 19 and the alumni joining the current choir to sing the standard of the same name. Dilworth said that although the piece was a regular part of the repertoire, Saturday night\u2019s performance was the first time it was sung with the entire reading of the text.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/uploads\/in\/yV\/inyVjp3nk-PUhNufd8nV9g\/Choir-f.jpg\" alt=\"Director\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" \/>The second half of the concert highlighted the work of Smallwood and began with the evening\u2019s theme song, \u201cWe\u2019ve Come Too Far,\u201d one of the composer\u2019s hits. It, too, carried the message encouraging a journey of hope: \u201cWe&#8217;ve come this far by faith\/Leaning on the Lord\/Trusting in His Holy word\/He never failed me yet\/Oh&#8217; Can&#8217;t Turn Around\/We&#8217;ve come this far by faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reba Praise \u2013 a group from Reba Place Church in Evanston, Illinois \u2013 led the audience in powerful renditions of \u201cJesus, Lover of My Soul,\u201d and a worship medley that brought the crowd to its feet. The five-member group includes several former and current North Park students and is directed by Helen Hudgens, associate professor of music at the university.<\/p>\n<p>Smallwood joined the other musicians for \u201cAngels\u201d and \u201cBless the Lord.\u201d The evening concluded with all of the performers on stage leading the audience in \u201cTotal Praise,\u201d one of the most performed gospel songs of contemporary music.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the event, President David Parkyn said, \u201cThis is probably the proudest moment of my time here in Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The evening was befitting the school\u2019s foundational values, he said. Parkyn noted that the school is distinctly Christian. \u201cWhat can be more distinctly Christian than gospel music?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Park also is intentionally urban. \u201cChicago is our neighborhood,\u201d Parkyn said. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for Chicago, there wouldn\u2019t be gospel music.\u201d He cited the influence of Tommy Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, and the Pilgrim (Baptist) Church.<\/p>\n<p>The school also is intentionally multiethnic. \u201cTonight we can join all our voices in a song of praise to God!\u201d Parkyn declared.<\/p>\n<p>And they did.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Photos courtesy of Eric Staswick.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2681&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (November 17, 2008) \u2013 Michele Thomas stood backstage trembling with tears rolling down her cheeks following the North Park University Gospel Choir\u2019s 15th Anniversary Concert on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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