We're looking for a Director of Music, (1) to play piano / keyboard and lead the congregation in song during the Sunday morning worship services, (2) to choose music for, inspire and lead a small adult choir, (3) to grow a youth and children’s music program, (4) to plan and provide special music during the Christmas and Easter seasons, and (5) to be an enthusiastic, high-energy participant in the spiritual life of the church.  Our congregation is mostly a mixture of older Anglos and younger Hispanic families. Sunday worship is a blend of contemporary praise music, country Gospel and traditional Methodist hymns, and our new Director of Music should be comfortable in all three styles. We worship in English but we sing in English and Spanish. We have a keyboard, piano, Orff xylophone, chimes and congas, and the pastor plays the guitar. The compensation is about $700 per month to start, for an estimated 6 - 8 hours of work per week (more during the Christmas and Easter seasons).  This works out to about $9,000 per year.  Additional money is available for weddings and funerals when non-church members are using our facilities.

During the months of July and August, Palm Springs would like to invite Christian soloists and instrumentalists to share their gifts in our worship service, from just providing an anthem and an offertory as part of the Sunday morning service, to a prelude-to-postlude leading the congregation in song throughout the service.  We will provide an honorarium based on the breadth of the music that is provided.

FYI:  In answer to all the various questions about the worship service:

The worship service is an hour and 15 minutes long. We begin with a brief musical prelude.  We follow with either a congregational hymn, or a series of praise songs normally led by the pastor on acoustic guitar. There are various short instrumental pieces played throughout the service -- "Jesus loves me" for the children's sermon, "Hear Our Prayer, O Lord" after the pastoral prayer, a doxology after the offering.  In addition, there is an Anthem (taught to the choir, rehearsed by the choir and sung by the choir on a weekly basis, or else provided as special music by a guest soloist) and a brief (2 - 3 minutes) Offertory played during the time the collection is being taken up.   If you are coming to do the special music, we would expect the Anthem and the Offertory.  At the end of the service, there is a congregational response to the benediction, and a postlude.

If you want to know what kinds of hymns we play, go to www.hymnsite.com and browse through the hymns.

Call Rev. Robert Ladner for details (305-753-1661) or email at Ladner_r@bellsouth.net.