I loved your blog comments here. I thought I would pass on again our appreciation for your music at St Jacobs Mennonite and how it keeps ‘infiltrating’ our worship. You are probably aware of how our whole Sunday School Christmas program is a play (written by Rebecca Seiling) that takes off on your Detectives of Divinty CD and music.

I should also add that recently, as part of our “Heart of Mennonite Worship” 4 week worship series, we ended with a Sunday morning on “Why Gather Songs for Worship.” We sang our way through our history of music-making, with a song chosen from each of the hymnals and music resources throughout our history. What a fun morning of singing. One of the categories we had was simply ‘Bryan Moyer Suderman songs” since these have become so much a part of our worship. We sang two of your songs as part of our offering time. (My Offerings I bring/There’s Enough for all). This idea was a bit of a take off from the plenary session this past July at Mennonite Church Canada where we physically displayed all the hymnals and binders and memory sticks and resources over the years in the Mennonite Church, and where I talked about the role of your songs and other Mennonite composers in the present church. Singing is so important to our worship and I continue to affirm the contribution your music is making to our corporate experience of worship. Thanks,

Mark Diller Harder

Thanks and have a good time on Saturday.

Mel