Music Plays a Leading Role in Fork and Waugh Churches
Methodists have always been known for their music. Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley who began the Methodist movement in England, wrote over 6,500 hymns. Some of these hymns, as well as many others in our Methodist hymnals, are sung at all the Fork and Waugh Sunday morning worship services. Church members in adult choirs at both churches present special anthems which they rehearse at weekly choir rehearsals. They also sing for special seasonal services, such as Christmas Eve, Thanksgiving Eve, Maundy Thursday, and Easter Sunday. An electric organ and a piano are used to accompany the singing. Instrumental selections by flutists, violinists, guitarists, and trumpeters add to the music for special worship services. A carillon system at Waugh Church plays hymns before the Sunday services and at noon and six o'clock each day. During the summer months of July and August, guest soloists from surrounding churches of many denominations, are invited by the choir director to sing at morning worship services. The children of the churches are taught simple Bible songs during the Sunday School sessions and during Vacation Bible School held in the summer. They present a Childrens' Christmas program of drama and music during the regular worship services one Sunday in Advent.