Annual event kicksoff Feb.20 with
concert
SUBMITTED BY PORTNEUF VALLEY
INTERFAITH FELLOWSHIP
POCATELLO — Feeding the 5,000
Families food campaign, an annual interfaith effort to combat hunger in
the community, begins with a kickoff concert Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at First
United Methodist Church, 200 N. 15th Ave., Pocatello. This is the 13th
anniversary of the concert.
There will be musicians and singers
from 12 different faith communities, and the program includes a piano
duet from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Sound-Scape, a quartet consisting of Mike Loudin, Heritage Baptist,
Steve Erlandson, Calvary Chapel, Gary Dunn, LDS and Christopher
Mydgyette, Methodist.
Also on the program will be Chase
Leavitt singing from the LDS faith community, Triston Krusoff, Temple
Emanuel, accompanied by Dorothy Frandsen, I Am Disciple and Donna
Grinzaffe, Methodist, Joyce Weaver, harpist from First
Presbyterian, Curtis Thompson,
guitarist from Calvary Chapel and Dereck Gregerson, singer, from Living
Waters Church. Brent Peterson, cello, ISU student, will perform, and
Allison Bangerter and Laura Larsen will do a piano duet.
The Trinity Episcopal Choir will
perform under the direction of Geoff Friedley and the Central Christian
Praise Team will sing as well.
Norma Boyd, from the LDS faith
community, will perform the theme song for this year, a song she wrote,
Geoff Friedley from Trinity
Episcopal, Britt Peterson, Idaho State University student, Reflections,
an interfaith women’s choir and the Cedar Second Ward Choir, with Lou
Ann Clausen, will take part.
The welcome will be by co-chairs
Dawn McLaughlin, LDS, and Karla Reynolds of Grace Lutheran Church. The
opening prayer will be given by Chris Guthrie, Living Waters Church, and
Roy Lacey of the Idaho Foodbank will provide the closing prayer. The
mayor’s proclamation will be by the Rev.
Roger Bray, Central Christian Church
and current city councilman.
There will be a Scripture reading by
Lynda Montgomery, First United Methodist Church, and Brandon Collett,
also from First United Methodist, will sing.
The concert is free and open to the
public. If you
can, bring a can or box of food for the Idaho Foodbank.
The concert will be followed by punch and cookies. For more information,
call Lynda at 233-3229 or Chris at 254-9223, or visit www.
feedingthe5000.org.JOURNAL FILE PHOTO Griffin Brown, 3, fills his dad’s plate with some appetizers in 2008 at the Central Christian Church during the first phase of the progressive dinner to benefit the Feeding the 5,000 charity. This year, the event kicks off on Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church in Pocatello. |