Happy Birthday, Dear Charles Wesley

Two weeks from now, on Wednesday, June 20th,at 7:00 p.m., our church will host the "Charles Wesley Singers", a long-standing and excellent choir of over 80 high school singers and instrumetalists, who are traveling from Damascus United Methodist Church (Damascus, Maryland) to perform a concert celebrating this year of Charles Wesley's 300th birthday. He was actually born on December 18, 1707.

Charles Wesley, brother to John, aided the early Methodist movement--and Christian worship and renewal in general ever since-- by writing over 5,500 hymns, many of them still widely sung today. He is especially remembered, for example, for "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" and "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". Charles Wesley was elected in 1995 to the Gospel Hall of Fame for his songs and hymns. I do not know what he said when he received the award.

Please plan to join us for this unusual event. Invite family, friends and neighbors for a pleasant hour of Wesleyan hymns.