Worship & Praise with Ken Medema
Schedule
Sun Jun 09 2024 at 10:00 am
Location
3401 N Valparaiso St, Valparaiso, IN, United States, Indiana 46383 | Valparaiso, IN
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First Presbyterian Church Valparaiso invites the community to join us in a special Sunday worship service featuring Christian composer, performer, improvisor and community advocate Ken Medema.Medema will be providing the music during the morning worship service on Sunday, June 9 at 10 AM in our Sanctuary. All are welcome to attend. A special feature of the service will be collaboration between the musical ensembles of FPC Valpo and the musician on some of his compositions.
Medema is a composer-singer-songwriter who has been performing in the United States, Canada, and Europe for more than 30 years. He earned a master's degree in music therapy from Michigan State University and worked for several years as a musical therapist. While thus employed he began writing songs about his patients' lives, and they responded enthusiastically. In 1973, Medema began a career as a performing and recording artist, recording albums for Word and Shawnee Press.
In 1985 he founded Brier Patch Music, an independent recording, publishing, and performance-booking company with headquarters in Grandville, Michigan. Brier Patch creates musical expressions that celebrate all aspects of the human experience, with an emphasis on spirituality and such universal concerns as peace, justice, hunger, homelessness, and the environment. Brier Patch's name is derived from the Uncle Remus stories that picture Brer Rabbit as having been born and raised in the Brier Patch, a place that is not comfortable for anyone else.
Today, Medema performs in a wide variety of venues, from corporate conventions, to high school and university campuses, to major youth gatherings, to annual assemblies of national organizations. He and his wife Jane have been married since 1965 and live in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Their family includes son Aaron and wife Sonya and grandbaby Charlotte and daughter Rachel.
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3401 N Valparaiso St, Valparaiso, IN, United States, Indiana 46383Event Location & Nearby Stays:
