Welcome to the United Church of Sun City
Choir
Our chancel choir has approximately 10 to 20 singers, depending on the time of year, and our anthems vary from classical through contemporary in style.
We have a vibrant and talent-filled music program at United Church of Sun City
The mission of our program is to provide music that enhances the liturgy and enables our congregation to pray twice through the music. When our organist first came she told our minister of music that her job was to "take the congregation to the throne of God every week."
View recorded musical offerings on our Sermon Page.
Minister of Music Alan Paulson brings over 40 years of successful music director experience in Christian Churches, public schools, performance choirs and community colleges to our Church. Alan earned his Masters in Choral Music Conducting at ASU and continues expanding his trade by taking courses to maintain his certifications.
Special Music
The church regularly hosts special music performances for the congregation. They range from concerts at the ice cream socials, to the Palm Sunday and Christmas Cantatas, to a three-concert Chamber Music and continental breakfast concert series and more. We announce upcoming performances in the calendar and at the top of this page.
Happy November from your Music Ministry!
We hope you enjoyed our selections for Broadway Sunday on October 19! That was a fun challenge for our choir, as we are also preparing for our big Christmas Cantata with the Phoenix Symphony on December 21st!
November, of course, brings thoughts of Thanksgiving! And family and food and giving thanks for what we have, without all the unnecessary spending and gifts associated with Christmas. My mom, Margaret Paulson, passed away a few days before Thanksgiving in 2003. Although that was very sad for our family, it gives me a little smile to think that she and God got together to plan her passing just before a day that my siblings and I would always remember and to give thanks for having such a wonderful mother in our lives. As a hard-working farming mother of seven, she never let us realize how poor we were. Although, with three older brothers, I got an awful lot of “hand-me-downs.” She also is responsible for my strong faith and my love of music. I can still remember when I was four and five years old following her chubby fingers along the music, finding all the words to all the verses of our favorite hymns when we were singing in church.
Many of you know I was an elementary music teacher for 42 years, and although Thanksgiving is basically a Christian holiday, I always used it to teach patriotic songs to be grateful for the wonderful country we live in. I always had administrators who would let me bend the rules a bit so we could include songs with lyrics like “God shed His Grace on Thee” etc. My primary students always enjoyed it when, with about five minutes left of class time, I would say “OK, you can’t line up to leave until you tell me something you’re grateful for!” Several kids in each class would routinely say they are thankful for “Jesus” or “God” or “my church” ...maybe that was for me more than them!!
In His Glory,
Alan Paulson, Minister of Music