Music
And Now, O Father, Mindful of the Love – Communion Hymn for Epiphany VI, February 17, 2019
Our Communion Hymn for The Sixth Sunday in Epiphany, Zach Dekker at the organ. Number 66 in the Book of Common Praise. St. John’s, East Orangeville, Caledon, the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. February 17, 2019. Recording and editing chorister Greg Finlayson.
Read MoreJust As I Am – Audio Recording with Lyrics and Service Photos of the Communion Hymn for March 19, 2023
Audio recording of our Communion hymn for Lent IV, March 19, 2023, with lyrics and service photos. Interim Priest-in-Charge Reverend David Bryant and Music Director and Organist Zacharia Dekker. ‘Just As I Am’ is Common Praise hymn #615. St. John’s, East Orangeville is within the Town of Caledon, Ontario, and a parish in the Anglican…
Read More‘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…
Read MoreChristmas ‘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…
Read More“In My Father’s House” – Video Submission for Use at Synod, November 25-27, 2021
This video was submitted to the Diocese in response to a request for material to be used at this year’s Synod, November 25-27. The following is the description which accompanied the submission: This music was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, with interior photos and footage of our church as it was during the first shut-down…
Read More“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.…
Read MorePeople 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…
Read MoreAs 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.
Read More“Gather Us Together” – Video Recording of the Communion Hymn for Pentecost X, August 1, 2021
Composed by Owen Alstott, this beautiful hymn is performed during the Said Communion Service for Pentecost X, August 1, 2021 by Music Director Zacharia Dekker, St. John’s Church, East Orangeville Ontario, the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, Archdeacon Elizabeth Hardy presiding priest. Recording and editing Greg Finlayson.
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