My family moved to Jackson 13.5 years ago and while we’ve been here we’ve attended only two churches. We’ve just recently switched churches because of a conflict of interests, but we attended the first church, Bethel, for a long time. To start out, I have had a love for music as long as I can remember. I believe my love of music originated from my mother, who was teaching me music by the age of 2. My love of music has sprouted over the years with 11 years of choir, 3 musicals, and 1 year of select choir. Now I don’t consider myself the best singer in the world; however, I was begged to be in Beauty and the Beast as a chorus member if that says anything to my singing ability. To the say the least, I have a love for music; therefore, I decided
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He slowly sat down and began mini-speech. I don’t remember word for word what he said maybe because I was incredulous at what he said next, but what he said went something like this, “Ethan, we need to talk. I believe that you have talents the Lord has given you; however, I don’t think singing is one of them. We [the two worship leaders] have decided that you stink at singing and you should never really sing again. We’re not going to let you on the worship team because you would ruin our sound, but you can stay in the church choir because there are people who can cover up your voice. I hope this doesn’t hurt your feelings bud.” After what felt like an eternity my whole world came crashing down as the man’s malicious words penetrated into my very soul. Needless to say my mother was enraged and tore into Patrick’s office and after a long and hard battle they decided to agree to disagree. Even though, I did not want to my mother coerced me to show up every Wednesday anyways. During one of the choir rehearsals several weeks later my blood finally boiled. The Mr. Cummings was talking to me all of the sudden he asked me about worship team. To my surprise he had never talked to Patrick about my
He slowly sat down and began mini-speech. I don’t remember word for word what he said maybe because I was incredulous at what he said next, but what he said went something like this, “Ethan, we need to talk. I believe that you have talents the Lord has given you; however, I don’t think singing is one of them. We [the two worship leaders] have decided that you stink at singing and you should never really sing again. We’re not going to let you on the worship team because you would ruin our sound, but you can stay in the church choir because there are people who can cover up your voice. I hope this doesn’t hurt your feelings bud.” After what felt like an eternity my whole world came crashing down as the man’s malicious words penetrated into my very soul. Needless to say my mother was enraged and tore into Patrick’s office and after a long and hard battle they decided to agree to disagree. Even though, I did not want to my mother coerced me to show up every Wednesday anyways. During one of the choir rehearsals several weeks later my blood finally boiled. The Mr. Cummings was talking to me all of the sudden he asked me about worship team. To my surprise he had never talked to Patrick about my