Kantor Position
In thanksgiving for the divine gift of music and God’s merciful reception of our praise, Zion has begun a nationwide search for a Kantor (chief musician of the congregation). Interested parties may view the job description and application instructions by clicking here.
Organ Concert Series
Zion is sponsoring a three-year Organ Concert Series, free and open to the public. For more information about this concert series, click here.
Why has Zion installed this new organ? It has done so as a way of keeping in step with God’s gracious way and worship.
God would have you surrounded with beauty. “Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,” we read in the book of Psalms (96:9). God’s beauty is His mercy. Through the death and resurrection of His Son, and through the nourishing gifts of His Holy Spirit, He forgives sinners their transgressions and fashions them into a holy fellowship that spans time and place.
Zion’s Great Organ was created to bespeak this beauty of God. Not only through sound, but also through the visual form of its pipes and casework, it carries a message: “This mercy is for you.” It belongs in your ears, upon your lips; it has touched your eyes, and appealed to your mind. It trumpets forth in the face of death! It chimes and rings as a companion to joy!
Under the direction of the Great Organ’s builder, Charles Kegg of Hartville, Ohio, the pipe shades that adorn it upper edge were hand carved out of basswood by sculptress Spirit Williams. They depict the celestial archangels and revered apostles with whom the Church still worships in unbroken (if unseen) fellowship. This mixing of things heavenly and things earthly is yet another dimension of God’s holy beauty, now reflected to Zion’s worshipers in wood struck by wisdom.
It was dedicated on February 21, 2010 with Dr. Heller playing in concert. The people of Zion have affectionately named the organ “Miriam,” after Moses’ sister, who led the people of Israel in victorious song (Exodus 15).
