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This article presents information on the author's service to the church through his music. The author was raised in a choral tradition that engrained in him high regard for the music of the church, its traditional tunes, hymnbooks and proven com- posers. With the desire to keep church music pure, the author was blinded for years to the inexhaustible supply of worship music to be found in the secular world. In 1994, when the author arrived at Northwest Christian Church, the order of worship included choral introit, choral call to prayer, an anthem, and choral benediction. Now they have evolved into an environment where the musical structure of worship is always changing, both in content and placement.