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New Song tours eight states

Geneva’s New Song 2006 departed Friday, July 7, for a six-week, eight-state tour that will take them along most of the East Coast:  North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.  The group will be singing in churches, camps, and on the boardwalk of the Jersey shore. 

newsong_web.jpgThe 2006 members include: Mandi Stern, senior English education major; Rachel Palomaki, senior music education major; Lauren McBurney, senior music education and performance major; Kassie Lorey, sophomore music education major; Megan Archer, senior elementary education major; Scott Metzger, senior communications major; Brendon Petersheim, junior chemical engineering major; Brian Freed, junior music education major; and Michael Potoeski, junior music education major.  The group is led by Director Louise (Edgar) Copeland, a graduate of Geneva College, with a master of music degree from the University of Cincinnati. 

In her experience, Rachel Palomaki, a soprano from Rochester, New York, believes:  “New Song is a great ministry not only to struggling, searching, and newer Christians, but to encourage and refresh long-time Christians as well.”

Brian Freed, a baritone from Hershey, Pennsylvania, states:  “New Song is both an experience of humbling personal growth with Christ and an enriching opportunity to share the Gospel with those all across America.  Our prayer is that the Message would go forth, and that others would see our gifts and abilities as God-given and worshipful.”

 

New Song, now in its 30th year, is a ministry which features a cappella singing of the psalms.  New Song’s psalm selections attempt to show the wide range of emotions and praise to God found in the psalms.  The group will use music as well as drama to convey the gospel in a contemporary and dynamic way.