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The College Ensembles Spent The Summer
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THE COUNTRY
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ouring with an ensemble is a
great opportunity for
ministering to other people. learning each other’s strengths and
It is a small close-knit group working through one another’s
formed to represent the weaknesses in order to become a
College while ministering to blessing to others. What they
church congregations, high school discover is that often they are the
students, and church-sponsored ones who are blessed. They
summer camps. Travelling across the constantly give of themselves, but in m
country meeting different people, return, God gives back to them.
seeing places many would never They stay in the congregation ■
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otherwise go, and staying in members’ homes, eat some delicious
picturesque towns may sound like a meals — sometimes too much, and
travel brochure. However, tour the interesting and historical
performing night after night, driving cities and towns they visit during the
from one town to the next, summer. It is a summer to
maintaining a pleasant attitude, and remember. Allison Holm, of the
keeping a smile fixed upon your face southern ensemble, says, “Ensemble
can be trying. It takes a special group is one of the best memories of my
of people. college years. It was so much fun
There are stringent auditions. travelling around the country
Besides the voice and piano representing the College.”
performances, the prospective
member’s grades, attitudes, and
testimony are considered. After
much prayer and careful
consideration, enough students for
two distinct ensembles are gathered.
What follows are months of
practice, purchasing a wardrobe,
singing in a few local churches, and
getting to know each other. A small
group of people with separate
identities become a family of sorts —
posing at one of the churches are the members of M rs . Pat Youstra was not able to begin touring
* the southern ensemble. In the months of May with the the President and the mid-western
and June, the ensembles minister to schools in ensemble until after the first session of summer
their chapel programs. Each group usually has a school was over. However, she did make some
little time before the beginning of their concert to cookies for the group and gives them to Jamie
set up the College’s display and then let off a little Munro as the two ensembles prepare to leave early
steam and relax from the travelling. the morning after graduation.
26 STUDENT LIFE
