‘Amazing Grace’ – Communion Hymn for Lent III, March 12, 2023

This hymn (Common Praise #352) sung for Communion during the Choral Eucharist Service for Lent III, March 12, 2023. Interim Priest-in-Charge Reverend David Bryant, and Music Director and Organist Zacharia Dekker. St. John’s, East Orangeville is situated in the Town of Caledon, just outside Orangeville, Ontario, and is within the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Recording…

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Christmas ‘Sing-Along’ Concert – December 17, 2022

St. John’s, East Orangeville’s Music Director, Zacharia Dekker, initiated this festive afternoon concert of carols and Christmas favourites, with lyrics projected overhead for all to join. Light refreshments supplied by many members could be enjoyed throughout. Interim Priest-in-Charge Reverend David Bryant thanked Zach, and invited those attending from the wider community to join us for…

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“In My Father’s House”

With lyrics by Pamela Martin and music by Craig Courtney this rendition features Music Director Zacharia Dekker at the keyboard, and on vocals with chorister Greg Finlayson, with an assortment of photographs depicting life at St. John’s, and with the panorama of the church’s interior from the pandemic time when in-church worship was not possible.…

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People Draw Near to God in Their Distress – Video Recording of Communion Hymn for Pentecost XVII, September 19, 2021

One of two Communion hymns with Music Director Zacharia Dekker for Pentecost XVII, September 19, 2021. Text by Dietrich Bonhöffer, vers. by Alan Gaunt, and music by Alfred Morton Smith (copyright the Estate of Doris Wright Smith). Common PraiseHymn Number 201, Common Praise, Anglican Church of Canada. Church of St. John, East Orangeville Ontario, the…

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As We Break the Bread – Video Recording of the Communion Anthem for Pentecost XV, September 5, 2021

Zacharia Dekker, Music Director for St. John’s Church, East Orangeville Ontario, sings Jay Althouse’s “As We Break the Bread” during Communion for the Said Eucharist Service, Pentecost XV, September 5, 2021. Presiding priest Archdeacon Elizabeth Hardy, the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Hope Publishing Company; this arrangement copyrighted in 2006. Recording and editing Greg Finlayson.

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