The Concordia Seminary Chorus, St. Louis, announces its 2008 Advent Tour. All of the presentations will include an expanded choral version of Evening Prayer that encourages the participation of the congregation in hymns and psalms. The Seminary Chorus will present choral music for the season of Advent on the following dates:

Sunday, December 7, at 3:00 p.m.—Concordia Seminary, The Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus, St. Louis, Missouri
Friday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m.—St. Paul Lutheran Church, Concordia, Missouri
Saturday, December 13, at 7:00 p.m.—Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Kansas City, Missouri
Sunday, December 14, at 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:00a.m.—Hope Lutheran Church, Shawnee, Kansas
Sunday, December 14, at 5:00 p.m.—Zion Lutheran Church, Moberly, Missouri

The Concordia Seminary Chorus, which includes the Advent Tour Group, numbers about 60 seminarians, who commit to balancing full course loads with weekly rehearsals and special tour rehearsals. The seminarians are preparing for full-time service as pastors in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Pastor Gerike has conducted the Chorus since 1992 after serving as its student conductor for five years.

The Chorus has produced ten recordings, its most recent being “Safe in God’s Faithfulness,” that includes two newly commissioned pieces for male voices and viola: John Eggert’s setting of “No Saint on Earth Lives Life to Self Alone” and Jonathan Korhs’ setting of “Shine in Our Hearts.”

For more information, call (314) 505-7374, email communications@csl.edu, visit www.csl.edu, or write Concordia Seminary, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO 63105.