Thoughts from membership.

Hi Everyone,

Reading the new issue of Region 5 monthly, ”Take 5″, prompted me to contact you all again, to remind you of the power of our chorus rehearsals, as the best tool, toward increasing our membership.

Since I lost my voice on Guest Night, I was not on the risers when you were all singing.
It gave me a rare look at the faces and body language of our guests who sang among you.
There was total concentration on the music books they held, and on Sandi, as their talents and YES, courage, let them sing along with you.

You have to acknowledge that singing along with our chorus is sort of like singing with the “Queens” at International.
When you performed for the them, with many active members absent, they sat in upright attention and you could see that many wanted to get back up there and do it too.

Getting guests to join the chorus is not our problem.

We need to get them into the rehearsal hall.
We are a dedicated group of women, with many working toward growth.

You have a Membership committee, i.e. Caralmae being totally prepared and constantly working toward chorus goals and keeper

of all our records.

Deanna, matching guests to Mentors in her busy book, getting ready for the 2nd visit, and introducing guests to everyone.

These Mentors are a guest’s first friends.

Judy Kuhl, always checking who needs guest books and CD’s.

The music books are prepared and new member books are always

ready when we sing for a new member. She drags membership stuff out so things are there for you and then puts it all back again after you are gone home. There are too many helpers to list you all, when

there are always members who step in to help when needed.

Our Section Leaders come early and drop everything to voice test.

They stay late to audition.

The many kindnesses of all of you, with welcoming attitudes,

talking to guests so they become comfortable friends, means everything to our guests and is the first thing they remark on.

Sandi coming an hour early to be there when they come in the door.
We all exceed in our endeavors.

What more can we do?
What we need is, getting the word out, from YOU, to every woman you come in contact with, who may be yearning to find a place to sing and have fun with other women.  A safe and rewarding place.
This is very evident when we find many who tell us that they have been looking for years to find such a chorus.

What can you do to help your friends and the stranger who sings along with the elevator music, to find a place to bring song into their lives.

What a gift you can give them.
The shy become confident, the confidence becomes the shine in their eyes and smile.

The hellos and conversation become the warmth that comes only from other women.

The place can be where they become the women they have set

aside for a time.
The bonus is the love and fun of singing and dancing and laughing and putting on stage makeup, learning and performing, as our chorus grows in numbers of dedicated members.

I ask that you make the effort every day to touch another woman’s life and invite them to come to rehearsal with you.
We are the fortunate who know the Secret, of how to become Sisters in Harmony.
We need to share it with other women.
..

hugs,
Shirley

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