Music | St. Christopher's Oak Park

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The choral and hymn repertoire is chosen for its liturgical, seasonal, and musical sensibilities. Music and texts are selected that will primarily reflect upon scriptural texts and the liturgical season of any given service. We continue to use a variety of resources for hymnody and service music, drawing from such hymnals as the Episcopal Hymnal 1982, Wonder, Love, and Praise; Lift Every Voice and Sing, and Voices Found (hymns by women composers), and Taizé. The Liturgical Choir consists of adult choristers that offer to the parish their time, talent, and musical abilities. Their primary ministry is leading the congregational singing and providing choral music for the 11:00 am. Choral Eucharist. The Liturgical Choir also sings for special choral evensong services and the annual festive Ceremony of Lessons and Carols, and all the evening Holy Week services.

Music with Christa

St. Christopher's is a congregation that cares about music. Christa leads the music at our 9:30 am worship Rite III Contemporary Service. This inclusive service for worshippers of all ages includes traditional hymnody, secular music, and Episcopal camp songs. During Sunday School, which we call "The Whole People of God," Christa leads a session enhancing the scripture story throu…

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Richard Sobak

Choir Director

Christa Creps

Musician for Children & Families

Music Music with Christa

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We pray that you will find here the love that is Christ’s law – love that bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things – knowing that God’s love is bigger than anything we can ask or imagine.

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In the Episcopal Church, we call holy life events sacraments. We acknowledge that God is present in every occasion of our lives. Some of these we mark together with special celebrations of worship to highlight the ways in which God is always at work throughout our life’s eventss. As Episcopalians, we believe that these observations reveal God's grace to us in new ways and call them sacramental.

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We have created a Sunday morning for Children and Families beginning with worship at 9:30AM. Then, immediately following snack, the young people participate in the Whole People of God lectionary-based Sunday School curriculum, so that everyone in the church is reflecting on the same scripture. Children engage the themes and stories of the day in our 9:30 worship. Art, activities like acting out the story, and music reinforce what happens in worship.

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Supporting the Ministers of God are the Staff and Vestry. The Rector is elected by a vestry with the bishop‘s approval.

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We as Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. St. Paul's is part of the Episcopal Church, a church that is both rich with ancient tradition and relevant to life in the 21st century. We believe that God loves you - no exceptions.

We believe in following the teachings of Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection saved the whole world.

Everything on our beautiful church campus is paid for by the people of St. Christopher’s. Our worship, our music, our Sunday School, our outreach, our staff, our buildings and every candle is made possible by the generosity of our church members, friends, and supporters. Please give now so that we can continue to build the Kingdom of God together.

The people of St. Christopher’s are our service ministers and, working with the staff and vestry, are full stewards of the mission and ministry of our congregation. Steward is an ancient concept. A steward is a person who is responsible for someone else's property, finances, or affairs.

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