Music Ministry at Benton

Christmas Festival is an annual musical event that our whole Church Family gets on board for. This year will be our 26th Festival! Four performances will take place over the December 2nd & 3rd weekend, each providing a couple hours of exceptional music thoughtfully chosen to prepare, excite, and encourage our hearts for the Christmas season. Our hope is to present the Gospel message clearly through the combined voices of the Benton Choir and the Heritage Singers accompanied by a full orchestra. It’s a lot of work (and a big commitment) but a great time! Click below for more details and to sign up.

We know from Scripture that God has created us to glorify him; to be worshippers of him alone. Jesus said that the first and greatest commandment is “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This doesn’t leave us room to worship or give our honour or the weight of our life’s attention to anything before the living God. Fundamentally, worshipping God is obedience to him and it includes every area of our lives. It’s not limited to music & singing.

In a Sunday morning service we join together as a church family to intentionally direct our obedience of Worship to God in the way he desires, “in Spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). We do this through fellowship, music, singing, prayer, testimonies, preaching of the word, and other elements such as communion and baptism. When it comes to leading the musical portions of of the service, our desire is to offer the best of our skills and posture of our hearts to God, while leading and modelling the importance of doing so for our congregation.

Psalm 33
Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous;
  it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
Praise the Lord with the harp;
  make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
Sing to him a new song;
 play skillfully, and shout for joy.

Interested in becoming involved in musical worship at Benton? Click here to fill out the application form.