Starting a children's choir...need help!

[Nikki]

I'm starting a Children's Choir at my church. I am going to put an insert in the bulletin letting people know that we'd like to start one and also have them vote on a day (Wednesday or Sunday evenings) for practice.

Not sure how to word it.

Also, someone recommended that I have the parents sign a parental commitment sheet because too many parents don't take the children's choir seriously and their kids miss many practices. How would I word that in a way that it wouldn't be offensive?

 

[lovely]

Hi Nikki,

I think you should go ahead and pick the day. Most people work on Wednesday, and it may be difficult to get to choir practice with traffic, dinner, and homework, etc. Sunday before church seems best, especially if you have an adult choir practice that same time, because the parents will have something to take their children to during their own practice. Just a suggestion. If not, then maybe a tear of voting ballot on the bottom of the letter would be good. Just say something like: We are asking all parents to vote for the day that is best for their family's attendance at choir, and whichever date has the most votes will be chosen.

For the rest maybe something like this....

We would like to invite the children of our church to come and worship with us!
Children's Choir ,for ages 00 to 00, begins Sunday Septemeber 00, at 0 0'clock. We will be learning scriptural, children's songs, and singing them in church to give our children an opportunity to praise the Lord.

In order to do our best for God, and to do all things in order, we are asking the parents of all children participating to sign a commitment form to insure that all practices, and performances, will be honored. This is an opportunity for our children, and in order to maintain a high level of participation, so that the choir functions well, we hope that the parents will do their best to have their children present, and on time, out of respect for others participating, and ultimately for the glory of God. Please return all forms to Nikki by September 00. If you have an questions please call me at, 000-0000.

Please pray for our choir that we will be a blessing to God, and to our church.

Thank you all so much, and we hope to see you there!

I hope others can bounce off of this, or pick out anything that may cause a problem so that you can come up with something great. The Lord bless you.

 

[Lewis]

Good going lovely, that will do it.

 

[Nikki]

I love you Lovely. I don't tell you that often enough. That is awesome what you wrote!

They don't even have an adult choir. There are probably 30 people that go to the church, but it's slowly growing. We really need to start taking more action to help the church grow. I believe that once we get children more involved, we will see growth. I am just thrilled to pieces over this! I went and bought two split-trax Cedarmont Kids cd's today. When I got home this afternoon, there was a big box on my deck. The preacher had gotten all the children's music materials he could find at the church and dropped them off for me. It makes me sad that it's been collecting dust all these years, but that is changing!

 

[lovely]

I love you too, and I am excited for you about this new ministry. I pray that the Lord blesses you, and those little ones, as you all learn the Word together.