HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH - FREEHOLD NJ

211 Elton-Adelphia Road 
Freehold, New Jersey 07728 
(732) 462-7545
Updated 11/29/08

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SINGGGG!!!!


It's time to sing, play and make a joyful noise to the Lord! Use your God-given talent to lead the singing of psalms, liturgy and hymns, to sing or play solos, and to sing in choir.

CHRISTMAS EVE CHORISTERS NEEDED - more information

WELCOME TO OUR NEW MINISTER OF MUSIC BEGINNING JANUARY 2009
Dean Poulsen, BA, MA, Minister of Music
Dean earned his MA from Wesleyan University. He attended Westminster Choir College, and has taken courses on conducting, youth choirs, festival anthems for the church year and Gregorian Chant, has served as organist/choir director of the Westminster First Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth NJ; organist/choir director Faith Lutheran Church, Dayton, N.J and as organist at Simpson United Methodist Church, Old Bridge, N.J. He has taught Jazz improvisation and jazz piano at Westminster Conservatory Princeton, NJ and has taught Balinese gamelan there every summer for eight years. He recently retired from Reilly Middle School Performing Arts program in Elizabeth, N.J., where he taught piano and music technology, accompanied the choirs and orchestra. He has directed the concert and jazz bands at the gifted and talented program for thirty three years. His own compositions have been performed on the Recent Works series at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. He teaches piano and studies vocal and tabla at Swarsaagar Classical Indian Music school in Edison NJ., and teaches a course on Understanding and Appreciating Jazz for Rutgers School of Continuing Education.  
 

Thanks to all who currently make a joyful noise to the Lord and to those who will join us this year!  We need and appreciate you!