Let’s begin this morning with a song. Please stand. Most of you know the song “Beneath the Cross of Jesus.” If you don’t, you are hearing our organist/pianist/keyboardist play it right now as I’m talking. On the PC-USA webpage, there was posted a hymn written a week ago by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. It addresses in song the Haitian disaster where, according to the most recent estimates, between 100,000 and 200,000 Haitians perished. The words are sung to the tune of “Beneath the Cross of Jesus.” I invite you to sing this song with me as we begin worship.

Let us pray these words to God. And as we do, let’s join in singing these words in harmony together. Let’s get beyond everyone singing the same note and the same beat, which I call uniformity singing rather than unison singing. True unison…