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Schedule of Daily Worship Services

Performances by guest choirs will highlight worship services each day of General Conference, except Sunday. On Tuesday afternoon, April 16 a concert by a mass Colorado choir will precede the Holy Communion and Memorial Service. That evening, a choir of bishops and their spouses will sing before the episcopal address delivered by bishop Judith Craig. Beginning Wednesday, April 17, a guest choir will seng each day before the morning worship service. Members of the Council of Bihops will preach at these services. Two choirs will also sing during plenary sessions. Cral metodista Unida de Neueva York, directed by Jorge Lockward, will sing on Saturday, April 20. Africa University Choir, directed by Patrick matsikenyiri, will sing on Tuesday, April 23. The schedule fo rthe worship services is as follows:

Tuesday, April 16
1:00 pm concert:
Mass Colorado Choir
Chancel Choir, Fort Morgan UMC, Fort Morgan
Connie Long, director
Chancel Choir, Littleton UMC, Littleton
David Kates, director
good News Singers, Smoky Hill UMC, Aurora
Ben Yeatermeyer, director
Chancel Choir, Green Mountain UMC, Lakewood
Marion Summervill, director
Chancel Choir of University Park UMC, Denver
Robert Penn, director
Chancel Choir of Trinity UMC, Denver
Phyllis Raup, director

1:30 p.m Holy Communion and Memorial Service
Preacher: Bishop Roy I. Sano
Celebrant: Bishop Woodie W. White

7:30 pm Concert:
Bishops' and Bishops' Spouses Choir
Joy Solomon, director

7:45 Hymn Sing

8:15 pm Episcopal Address: Bishop Judith Craig

Wednesday, April 17
8:15 am concert:
McCurdy School Choir, Espanola, New Mexico
Paula Nichol, director
8:30 am Worship
Preacher: Bishop Alfred L. Norris

Thursday, April 18
8:15 am. Concert
the Maranatha Choir, University UMC, Gainesville, Florida
Robert W. Jackson, director
8:30 am Worship
Preacher: Bishop William Boyd Grove

Friday, April 19
8:15 am Concert
Choir of the First United methodist Chruch, Peoria, Illinois
timothy McCoday, director
8:30 am. Worship
Preacher; Bishop Sharon Zimmerman Rader

Saturday, April 20

8:15 am Concert
St. Luke Community UMC, Dallas, Texas
Monya Logan, director
8:30 am Worship
Preacher: Bishop Joseph C. Humper

Monday, April 22
8:15 am Concert
Coral Metodista Unida de Neueva York, New York City
Jorge Lockward, director
8:30 am Worship
Preacher: Bishop L. Bevel Jons III

Tuesday, April 23
8:15 a.m Concert:
Indonesian Choir of the Methodist Church of Indonesia
Eunice, Sitompul, director
8:30 am Worship
Preacher: Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt

Wednesday, April 24
8:15 am Concert: Lover's Lane Jazz Band, Lover's Lane UMC,
Dallas, Texas
Terry Price, director
8:30 am Worship
Preacher: Bishop William W. Dew, Jr.

Thursday, April 25
8:15 am Concert:
Christ UMC Deaf and Sign Choir, Baltimore, Maryland
Peggy Johnson, director
8:30 am Worship
Preacher: Bishop Edwin C. Boulton

Friday, April 26
8:15 am Concert:
Iluzija Choir, United Methodist Church, Liepaja, Latvia
Guntra Pluce, director
8:30 am Worship
Preacher: Bishop Ann Sherer
10:00 pm closing Worhip
Preacher: Bishop Woodie W. White

Directors of Music: S.T. Kimbrough, Jr. and Cynthia Wilson- Felder
Organists: Austin Lovelace, Kathleen Forsberg
Pianists: Richard Forsberg, Johnetta Johnson Page