Minister's Letter for Summer 2026

'Music was my first love and it will be my last' are the lyrics of a well-known song. 'Music of the future and music of the past' are such clever lyrics as they describe how music has the ability to transport us on a journey to people, places and events. In the honoured duty that is mine of conducting funeral services, I seek to encourage those who are preparing the service to take time over music choices, because what is chosen is very much the anthem of the person that has passed and when you hear it, wherever you find yourself in the future, you will remember them.

I wonder what piece of music best describes you, best sums up who you are, your life's journey. Will it be lyrical? Classical? Spiritual? Or something so obscure that only those closest to you will understand why. Your life after all is a beautifully crafted symphony, with its joyous harmonies and painful discords, all following a musical score that is as unique as you are.

I remember as a young man, preaching and singing with my accordion on the streets of 1980's Soho, London, a very different place then than it is now, one of the chorus's I liked to use outside the infamous Raymond's Revue Bar had these words:

Life is a song when you live for Jesus
Work for Jesus
Learn from Jesus,
Life is a song when you live for Jesus and your heart's in tune with him!

May this day see your heart ring a melody of love as your life resounds in songs of everlasting praise.

Keep Singing!

God bless you,
Crawford

Rev CJ Logan
Minister