Honoring our youth and volunteers!

We were so pleased to welcome Jessica Gu and her accompanist Chloe de Souza to Summerville for this special concert.  Jessica is a passionate soprano with a deep fascination for classical music. She is currently studying at the Eastman School of Music for her Bachelor’s degree,  under the tutelage of Ruth Hennessy.  Chloe is currently pursuing her graduate studies in Piano Performance as the recipient of the Cecile Staub Genhart Scholarship at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Boris Slutsky and Marina Lomazov. They performed works by Schumann, Chausson and Bellini.  It truly was an enjoyable opportunity to listen to some lovely vocal and instrumental music.

Several of our members past and present have been a part of this wonderful group of performers. Visit their facebook page for more info.

After directing the bell choir at today's service, Jackie lent her bell ringing skills in teaching our youth. The children enjoyed learning different elements of the bell's tones and were able to play a few songs with Jackie's direction. 

It was a joyous day for our congregation as we celebrated the Scouts organization especially the two troops who call Summerville their home. Pack 203 Cub Scouts, and Troop 127 were joined by their leaders and families and participated in the service in several ways. We're glad to be able to provide meeting space to them. They in turn do much to help us out from heavy lifting for the garage sale and cleaning up our grounds during spring and fall clean-up! Our own resident Eagle Scout, Hal Schindler brought in his Boy Scout sash and badges and shared stories of his scouting days.