At 12/16/25 05:42 PM, Oakwood wrote:At 12/14/25 02:10 PM, SoulSecure wrote:Well. I sang bass in a caroling group for our Christmas outreach this year. I can now personally say I understand exactly what @troisnyx was saying years ago about singing many "GLO~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~RIA"s now. (Ding Dong Merrily On High and Angels We Have Heard On High)
It was fun, but I'm not a pro singer or anything so it was a bit hard.
Anybody else playing Christmas music this year?
Sounds like fun, what made you decide to join in?
I personally despise Christmas music because it's always terribly unoriginal and repetitive, and the new stuff just doesn't cut it. However, 'Fairytale of New York' by The Pogues always manages to bring a melancholic smile to my face.
I've been helping out with music for this outreach we do as a Church body for the past few years. We were doing a band, but the outreach is like a "living nativity" (we have different scenes that ppl walk to among a lot of Christmas lights to tell the story of Christ's birth with actors) and our music would at times make it hard for actors to be heard or people sharing the Gospel to be heard, so the Worship Team leader decided to try caroling instead and be just acoustic. It worked out very well.
Btw the point of music in this case is to entertain the people waiting in line or milling around and sing songs that point to Jesus and glorify God. To answer the original question with all this background info: I did it cuz I love Jesus. I didn't enjoy it as much as playing music, but if He wanted me to do it again, I'd do it again.
