Joyful Praise Homeschool Choir

The Joyful Praise Homeschool Choir is a non-profit 501c3 organization. The choir is made up of homeschool students from Coweta and surrounding counties ranging in age from 4-18. Our goal is to educate students in the areas of music and drama, and train them to use their talents as a ministry in our community. The choir performs two musical productions each school year - one at Christmas and a patriotic musical in the spring. The productions are a combination of music, drama, and dance. This a delightful and talented group of children. The jr. high/high school students under the direction of volunteering parents design all props and backdrops for our productions.
The choir also performs for various community events throughout the year, as well as providing entertainment for retirement homes and children‘s homes. The spring schedule for our jr.high/high school group will include REEL FEST-a statewide choral festival. Next summer the students have another big event - the Son Power Music Camp in Orlando, Florida. At Son Power Music Camp the students will receive training in music, drama, and missions. Their mission project will be conducting a day camp for a local housing project.

     Rehearsal Schedule - Wednesday Afternoons
              K-6th grade choir
                   1:00-2:00
              Drama & Dance
                    2:00-3:00
             Joyful Praise Ensemble (7th-12th grade)
                    3:00-4:00


DIRECTOR:
Karen Moore is a former school teacher with a B.S. degree
in Music Education from Liberty University.

Phone - (770)304-1689
Cell - (770)328-9204
E-mail - JPCDirector@aol.com

CHOIR MEMBERS
A member of the Joyful Praise Choir must be a committed student who loves to sing and praise God through music. It is very important that students are present and prompt at all practices, as well as performances. The choir practices as a group, and when just one member is absent or late it affects the whole group.

Students will be chosen on a volunteer basis for drama parts and solos in our performances. If you are interested, please indicate on your registration form. Individual parts will require extra rehearsals. There will be no auditions. Our choir consists of many talented students. Parts will not be awarded for talent only, but to those students exhibiting good participation, behavior, and attitude, as well as promptness and faithfulness to practices.

MUSICAL OBJECTIVES
The students will learn musical skills by experiencing different rhythms and melodic passages. They will learn to read music as they are taught to recognize musical symbols, notes, and dynamic markings. Students will be challenged to interpret the music as we sing together in praise to God. The students will learn proper vocal and breathing techniques. God has given us the ability to praise Him in song with our voices. The music we use will be that which glorifies our Lord. Students will be taught to sing in harmony with each other, as well as perform individually. Performing will give students the opportunity to exercise those skills learned through performance.