Events
A Vision Unfolding
Posted on April 28, 2026 | Posted by Pastor Daniel
Ascension’s choir will offer a musical gift to the community on Sunday, May 17 at 9:15 am within our Sunday morning service. This will begin our summer combined 9:15 worship service.
A Vision Unfolding, was composed in 2021 and features choir, narrator, piano, violin, trumpet, and drum. The piece is a contemporary styling with jazz and gospel influences.
Here’s how composer Kyle Pederson describes it:
I worked on this piece with Shanelle Gabriel, an African American poet, spoken word artist, and singer/songwriter from NYC. Our conversations turned to “what sort of vision do we want to cast for the audience and the singers?”
We determined that, at the core, we hoped to re-articulate and explore what our country has stood for in its best moments: equality, freedom, justice, and inclusion.
It is my hope that we lean into the invitation that the choir offers—that each of us might reach out beyond our comfort zone and seek to build bridges of care and connection, finding a better way of being in community. That we might stand in solidarity with those whose voices are too often dismissed, regardless of their skin color, sexual orientation, faith background, or other characteristics. That we might not dismiss, disdain, and judge those whose politics are different from ours, but that we might make the uncomfortable effort to see them as people just as worthy of respect and dignity.
We hope you can attend this meaningful service and cantata. A community brunch will follow!
