The Beachy Amish Mennonites   

Mennonites   

Choirs and Vocal Ensembles

Like other conservative Mennonite groups, the Beachys have taken an interest in vocal music, particularly a cappella choral pieces. This has developed in part because of the distance Beachys have historically kept from musical instruments.

 

And like most Christians in the developed world, music has become a contentious issue, not just about the allowance or disallowance of instruments, but also the style of music, the extent to which choral music is professionalized, college attendance for music study,  and the frequency with which music recordings are used in daily routine.

 

For congregational singing, most churches sing in four parts at a moderate tempo, while the most conservative Beachy churches sing the melody line in unison at a slow tempo. But in all churches, there is an emphasis on congregational singing and

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not regular ‘special music’ with focus on a small group of performers.

 

Beachys mostly use 19th and early 20th century Protestant hymns for church singing, but a cappella arrangements of praise and worship and gospel-style music are increasing in use. Choirs use these styles as well as African spirituals, folk melodies, and Baroque- through early Romantic-era classical.

 

Choral Ensembles and Vocal Groups

If your group wishes to be listed on this page, please contact website staff.

 

Antrim Mennonite Choir

Composed of members from Antrim Mennonite Church

 

The Amazing Grace album is distributed widely as a CD-tract.

 

Mountain Anthems

Composed of members from Mountain View Mennonite Church.

 

http://www.mountainanthems.com/

 

Sharon Bethel Quartet

Composed of four men from Sharon Bethel (Kalona, IO)

 

http://www.sharonbethelquartet.com/

 

 

Cedar Springs Amish-Mennonite Youth

Composed of members of the Cedar Springs Amish Mennonite Church. Two CDs, Power in the Blood and What a Friend We Have in Jesus are widely distributed through Still Waters Ministries, from which CDs among other materials may be requested for free. For more information about Still waters, click here. The church is part of the Ambassadors Amish Mennonite affiliation.

 

 Eighty years in God’s service: June 26, 1927 — 2007