I recently took a new full time call as Minister of Music and Worship in a large, thriving ELCA congregation. Before this I was a teacher in an Episcopal school and part time Minister of Music in a small town congregation, doing as many do in juggling responsibilities, commitments, and beyond. I left a music program that I had built over ten years, serving since my high school days. I had a choir of forty, a full handbell group, a volunteer directed children’s choir, numerous instrumentalist, really it was a music program that anyone would be satisfied to lead. But this awesome and secure position was not full time and I was ready for more. I am sure many of you have had this feeling and possibly even acted on it. So with a great leap of faith, prayer, and hope I took my first new call, ever.
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Ryan K. Hostler serves as Minister of Music at Our Savior Lutheran Church, Vero Beach FL. At Our Savior Ryan oversees all aspects of worship and liturgy planning as well as children's and adult choirs. He is a graduate of Trinity Lutheran Seminary and a lifelong Lutheran church musician and liturgy enthusiast.
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“If You Build It They Will Come……….or Not”
Posted on Feb 4, 2013 7:52:47 AM by Ryan Hostler in Planning, in review-prelude