The Chancel Choir
Richmond's First Presbyterian Church has always had a tradition of musical excellence. It is as if it were "ordained" to be so. The Rev. C. Sumpter Logan, Sr. put it into words so eloquently. During worship on Sunday, May 31, 1981, Dr. Logan proclaimed, "Music in church can help prepare a congregation for a better understanding of what meaning heaven has!"
Joyce Wolf is the Director of Music and leads the Choir each Sunday.
The Choir is always accepting new members, who would like to share their musical ability with our congregation and in service to the Lord.
The Choir usually meets on Wednesday nights to practice and briefly before church services on Sunday.
Samaritan Singers
Around 1990, a group of local singers, known informally as the "hospital
singers" and more formally as the Samaritan Singers, was begun
by chancel choir member Hee-Young Shin. Every Sunday these folk go
to Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center to sing for the patients
on each floor. Mrs. Shin started the group because she did it as a
high school girl growing up in South Korea. It has become a meaningful
instrument of our music ministry for both singers and patients! The
group is made up of singers from local area churches. It is not purely
a Presbyterian group, although Amy Jett and John Gump, as well as
Mrs. Shin, have been with the group since its founding.
