Riverside Handbell Festival

Riverside Handbell Festival Concert on Sunday 4 PM

From our Archive .... Syncopated Clock by Anderson played by Meiji Gakuin and directed by legendary Kodama Sensei

from Emanuel Digest Feb.2010

Our Emanuel

 Ringers III

Sandra , director

       Ringers Ben, Caleb, Sonja, Akimoto, Andrew and Sarah 

It was great December and January for the bells.

December had the ERIII's free ringing during the advent services.And the ERII's and ERIII's provided music for the 5 PM Christmas Eve service.

On December 20th the Emanuel Ringers I hosted the Katonah Celebration Ringers for our annual benefit concert.Our beneficiary this year was the Invisible Children.A free will offering of $1486 was collected during the concert.A special thanks to Grace B. and Chelsea F. who did a great presentation about our beneficiary.

At the late service on Christmas Eve, we had several alumni join the ERI's play our traditional Stille Nacht and a new tradition of Sing We Now of Christmas to send everyone home.Thank you Sue R., Allan M., Charlotte B., John B., Adam B., Kristen Z. for coming and ringing.

Our letter appeal campaign is still receiving donations and as of January 18th we have received $7245 towards our trip to Japan.  Thank you !
We are doing a bake sale and selling soy base candles from Beacon Delites for Valentine's Day - Saturday, February 13 from 12—4pm and Sunday at Cof- tea

Eiko Cornelius 

December 24th Christmas Eve ERI and Alumni

Thank you to all the alumni who came and rang with the current ERI's and played Betty Garee's Stille Nacht.We started a new tradition of playing Kevin McChesney's Sing We Now of Christmas as the postlude. There were also many alumni who were at the service thought they did not ring. It was great to see all of you.

ER 2 & ER 3 Play at the Children's Service

Christmas Eve Service

Can you spot the bell ringers?

The Shepherds












The Stars











The Innkeepers Wife











The Wise Men











The Barn Animals

Joint Benefit Concert... success despite of snow storm

The Benefit concert with the Emanuel Ringers and Katonah Celebration Ringers was a huge success.

The free will offering for the Invisible Children Organization, www.invisiblechildren.com came to $1486. Thank you to our audience for your offerings and for digging yourselves out from the snow storm to come and enjoy the concert.

BENEFIT

HANDBELL CONCERT

Sunday, December 20th

4:00 pm

Emanuel Lutheran Church

197 Manville road Pleasantville, NY 10570

The Emanuel Ringers

and Katonah Celebration Ringers

will give a benefit concert to raise funds for the

Invisible Children Organization.

The Invisible Children is an organization that is raising awareness of the horrific acts occurring in Uganda, a country in Eastern Africa. The children are being taken from their homes and forced to fight in a rebel army in the Ugandan wilderness, war that is the longest running war in Africa. These children are taken as young as 6 years old and experience awful acts of hate and violence. This army raids villages and kills many innocent people throughout the country. No child should be forced to commit or watch these acts of horror.

Www.invisiblechildren.com.