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MUSIC
that program. A professor of voice heard me sing excited about is the music for mission series. We
and said, ‘You should come to the United States to identify a mission partner, such as the Community
study music.’ I was 16 at the time so I said, ‘You Medical Clinic, and we present a concert free
should give me money to come the United States of charge to the audience. We collect a free will
to study music’ and he said OK,” Brown recalls, offering and 100 percent of what we collect goes to
laughing. that mission partner.
Brown graduated from the University of Kentucky “It’s been really wonderful,” Brown says. “We’ve had
and holds a Masters in conducting from West standing room only for the past couple of concerts ...
Virginia University. the Community Medical Clinic has had volunteers
sign on since the concert and they’ve gotten patients
His wife is also a music director at Suncrest United who might not have known they existed before. That
Methodist Church in Morgantown, W.Va. They have is exciting and humbling because the intended goal
two children, Isaac and Miles. of the series was to increase awareness of and raise
money for such organizations.”
Brown says Lyttleton Street UMC’s emphasis on
social outreach is a top priority for the church, one Brown says it’s a joy to lead church members in music.
he hopes to contribute to through its music program
“I’ve been blessed with really wonderful volunteers.
“I saw the position listing for the church and I The folks who show up here do because they
was just very impressed with how thoughtfully want to make music together. There is something
crafted it was. It was very evident that both music about that sense of community that is priceless
and mission were very important things to this … it feeds your soul and it really ministers to
congregation,” Brown says. the participants as much as it ministers to the
congregation or the community when they hear
“One thing we have been able to do here that I am them sing,” Brown says.
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