A NIGHT OF HYMNS 2023

He Keeps Me Singing
August 27, 2023
 
Orchestra Opener
“Just a Closer Walk With Thee”
 
Congregational Hymn Medley
“He Keeps Me Singing
“I Am Thine O Lord”
“Nothing But the Blood”
“Grace Greater Than Our Sin”
 
Choir and Orchestra
“This Is My Song”
 
Hymn Story – KATY COOK reads  
Fanny Crosby. In 1873, two close friends, Fanny Crosby and Phoebe Knapp gathered together and unexpectedly developed what we would refer to today as the song, “Blessed Assurance”, one working as the composer, the other as the writer.

Congregational Hymn
“Blessed Assurance”
 
Hymn Story – PATRICIA COX reads
Great Is Thy Faithfulness is a popular Christian hymn written by Thomas Chisholm (1866–1960) with music composed by William M. Runyan (1870–1957) in Baldwin City, Kansas, U.S. The phrase "great is thy faithfulness" comes from the Old Testament Book of Lamentations 3:23.

Congregational Hymn
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
 
Piano/Violin Duet
“Be Thou My Vision”
 
Congregational Hymn Medley
“Redeemed”
“Saved, Saved”
 
Hymn Story BEV PRUITT reads  
"In the Garden" (sometimes rendered by its first line "I Come to the Garden Alone" is a gospel song written by American songwriter C. Austin Miles (1868–1946), a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall-Mack publishers for 37 years.

Congregational Hymn  
“In The Garden”
 
Orchestra Song
“He Looked Beyond My Fault”
 
Hymn Story – BETH HATHORN reads  
"Near the Cross", alternatively titled "Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross" or "In the Cross", is a Christian hymn written by Fanny Crosby and published in 1869.

Congregational Hymn
“Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross”
 
Hymn Story – TOM ARIAIL reads
George Beverly Shea

Adoration Song
“I’d Rather Have Jesus”
 
Congregational Hymn Medley
“There’s Is Power in the Blood”
“Are You Washed in the Blood”
“I’ll Fly Away”
 
Hymn Story – SANDRA ONAL reads
Sung at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" is the most-recorded gospel song ever. NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with Dr. Michael Harris, a professor of history at Union Theological Seminary, who has written extensively about the song's author, gospel musician Thomas Andrew Dorsey.

Congregational Hymn  
“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”
 
Altar Prayer – Pastor Jeff
 
Choir and Orchestra
“Endless Praise”
 
Dismissal