Children's Choir

Do you have a 4 year old – 12 year old who loves to worship the Lord through song?

The choir is an integral partnership of Capitol Hill’s music and children’s ministries offering weekly opportunities for faith development and enrichment through worship, developing vocal talent and appreciation, and fellowship. The spirited and energetic voices of God’s Inspiration Children Chorus has blessed the Metropolitan region since 1998, and has had the opportunity to witness in song to many audiences from US Senators to border babies.

Our rehearsal goals are:

1. Spiritual growth. Ensuring that the children understand what they are singing about and are able to relate to it, will deepen their understanding of God and provide an opportunity for them to offer sincere, heartfelt praise. They will learn that the audience is not the congregation but the Most High God Himself!
2. Vocal development. There are few things as pure as the sound of children’s voices. Childhood is only a small and therefore precious time in human development. Repertoire will provide and teach developmentally appropriate music. Rehearsals will include vocal exercises to strengthen and control their singing voice.
3. Development of musicianship.  The children will be taught to understand the basics of music theory in order to grow past rote learning, which can limit how quickly music is learned. An appreciation for different genres of music will be fostered by the study and performance of the best of children’s repertoire from various time periods, cultures and styles of music.  We will also use the Hymn Treasures program to teach hymns to the children.
4. Life skills such as cooperation, selflessness, mutual respect, diligence  and commitment, without which success in group musical expression is diminished, will be a natural result of the God’s Inspiration Children’s Chorus experience.
5. Discipline. Self-discipline is of more value than imposed discipline. However, until self-­‐discipline is achieved and valued, it must be taught.
   
   FMI: Kesslyn Stennis and Douraine Donaldson, godsinspiration@capitolhillsdachurch.org