Author Christine Schaub To Sign Books During Church Library Ministry Conference
June 2008
It’s become Christine’s mission to rekindle a love for hymns. “I think the themes of hope and peace and longing that form the poetry of these hymns is wildly missing from modern church music,” says Christine, a concert pianist, novelist and actress. “Praise and worship is only one aspect of singing about your faith. The other aspect is, ‘Pass me not, oh gentle Savior…do not pass me by,’--a crying out for help…for peace. I think that plea is just as essential as the praise and worship choruses sung in churches today.”
Christine began telling these stories in 1994 as one-person dramas, written originally for her church--a verbal “rest of the story.” They were wildly popular and she became known as the “Hymn Lady.” Those performances led to state women’s meetings, the International Church of God Conferences, the Gaithers’ PraiseGathering conferences, Taylor University, Anderson University and similar college campuses, dinner theatres, and churches across the Midwest until, ultimately, a publisher asked her to broaden the stories into novel form. The MUSIC OF THE HEART SERIES was born.
Conference leaders for the Church Library Ministry Conference will include Eva Nell Hunter, director of the church library ministry at Central Baptist Church in Decatur, AL and association and state convention consultant; Bill Jones, developer of Book Systems’ suite of library automation products; and Hope Ferguson, state library ministry consultant for the Louisiana convention.
Conference Dates: September 26-27, 2008
Location: Webster Conference Center, Salina, Kansas
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