MWPC Christmas Caroling

SAVOR THE SEASON: Christmas Caroling on Saturday, December 14, 2024

The Joyful Noise Carolers will assemble for our annual time together, a tradition since 1998. All** ages are welcome to join – no previous singing experience necessary. We will meet inside StoryPoint, 8135 Beechmont, 45255 (formerly known as New England Club) around 5 PM on Saturday, December 14, 2024. After quickly organizing recipient cookie plates** and signing cards, we will sing for the StoryPoint residents at dinner. After that we’ll likely go sing at several other locations, possibly including MWPC member homes (let Steve know of a home you think we might want to visit.) Around 7 PM we will be done and those interested may choose to head out for pizza and more fellowship at a local establishment. If you have questions, please call or email Steve Long.

** MWPC community and their friends

Summary – 2023 Caroling

Another great late afternoon and early evening for MWPC Christmas carolers included

  • singing carols in the main NEC dining room
  • driving the region, singing with several other households
  • lifting the spirits of those enduring challenges in a number of forms, including hospice, health challenges and more
  • lifting our own spirits and sharing Christmas joy, love and peace
  • sharing some food and cookies afterwards at a local pizza place

NOTE: thanks to Steve V. for taking/sharing NEC pictures and video

As always, we couldn’t get to all the MWPC households we wanted to visit. We’ll hope to be with you in an upcoming Joyful Noise Boys or Joyful Noise Crew visit…

A little caroling humor HERE and HERE

PREVIOUS SUMMARIES

Summary – 2022 Caroling

Another great late afternoon and early evening for MWPC Christmas carolers included

  • singing carols in the main NEC dining room and in the smaller NEC dining room (pictures HERE)
  • driving the region, singing with several other households
  • lifting the spirits of those enduring challenges in a number of forms, including hospice, health challenges and more
  • lifting our own spirits and sharing Christmas joy, love and peace
  • sharing some food and cookies afterwards at a local restaurant

As always, we couldn’t get to all the MWPC households we wanted to visit. We’ll hope to be with you in an upcoming Joyful Noise Boys or Joyful Noise Crowd visit…

Summary – 2021 Caroling

What a great late afternoon and early evening the Christmas carolers did enjoy:

  • sing-along of 10 Songs in 10 Minutes with the NEC dining room
  • singing with a 102-year-old MWPC member in the smaller NEC dining room
  • lifting the spirits of those enduring challenges in a number of forms, including cancer surgery, cancer diagnoses, recent falls, memory issues, caregiving and more
  • lifting our own spirits and sharing Christmas joy, love and peace

YouTube of the group singing Silent Night in the NEC dining room – check out the residents and staff enjoying the experience, including some singing along! 🙂

We are sorry we couldn’t get to all the MWPC households we wanted to visit. If the full group missed you on December 19th, we’ll hope to see you before/after in one of our Joyful Noise Crowd visits or maybe during Advent 2022?

Covid-19 could not curb the caroling! In 2020 the Line and Long families used bullhorns and voices to sing to various NEC households from outside their residences and then came around to the NEC dining room to join Steve V. in singing to folks seated apart there. Not quite like our usual efforts but the tradition continues 23 years and counting!

In 2019 Caroling, we spread loads of Christmas cheer and song with about two dozen of us participating. We sang for almost 20 minutes to the full dining room at New England Club and then split into two groups to maximize the joy being spread – singing to groups at Mt. Washington Care Center, The Ashford plus several area member households. Afterwards many enjoyed fellowship, pizza and cookie eating.

From our recipients we received positive feedback at the time in the form of smiles, singing along and applause plus notes later including these comments:

  • “we would like to thank you for organizing the Saturday evening of caroling: we thoroughly enjoyed the fellowship.”
  • “Thanks to you and the carolers for the gift of  beautiful music and an everlasting memory. It was wonderful!!! We were especially happy – – and proud – – to share your thoughtfulness with our son and his family (members of another denomination). On, on MWPC!!”

Here’s the 2018 gang at NEC

Pastor Barb’s inaugural effort at Facebook Live allows you to hear us singing Jingle Bells HERE

Another fabulous year of singing to many folks happened in 2017 with 24 or more of us in attendance. We sang for almost 20 minutes to the full dining room at New England Club and then split into two groups to maximize the joy being spread. Among other locations was one of the Forest Hills Care Center lobbies plus several households in the Mt. Washington and Anderson Township areas. Afterwards we had the largest percentage of carolers ever stick around for some pizza and cookie eating plus time for good fellowship! Here’s one picture of that gang

During joys and concerns time at NEC worship the following Sunday there was a joy expressed that our group had been there to sing. In fact, one of the women at worship said that it was the finest Christmas singing they had there this season. Not that we do this for such comments but it’s nice to know there are many who appreciate the efforts!

Here’s a picture from 2015 caroling at NEC

SOME EARLIER PICTURES…

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Annual Announcement…

SAVOR THE SEASON: Christmas Caroling on Saturday, ___________

The Joyful Noise Carolers will assemble for our annual time together. All MWPC community participants (and their friends of all ages) are welcome to join us – no previous singing experience necessary. We will meet inside The New England Club (8135 Beechmont, 45255) around 5 PM. After quickly organizing recipient cookie plates** and signing cards, we will sing for the NEC residents at dinner. After that we’ll go sing at several other locations including MWPC member homes. Around 7 PM we will be done and those interested head out for pizza and more fellowship at a local establishment. If you have questions, call or email Steve Long.

** NOTE:  No pressure, but if you’d like, bring along one or two dozen cookies for the plates we’ll provide for each household where we sing

OVERVIEW

This event was begun in 1998 by the FATHERS Team (men’s group,) their families, plus Chapel Folk members. For the past several years we have started by meeting at New England Club and singing for the residents at 5 p.m.. Then we’re off to a few other Anderson Twp./Mt. Washington/Union Twp. locations, including some individuals’ homes. We are ordinarily done singing by 7 p.m., at which time we head out for pizza at a local establishment afterwards. If you have questions call Steve Long.

The shortlink to this webpage is:  http://bit.ly/MWPCChristmasCaroling