A Black Gospel choir in suburbia...

This is the part of the choir from the Broadview Missionary Baptist Church - here to perform for us before Christmas. They are a very typical African American church choir, and we are a very typical very white church. Still, it is nice that we can get a group like this to come all the way down from Chicago to sing for a bunch of stiff suburban white folk. I hope they aren't too disappointed in us - we aren't as stiff as a bunch of Episcopalians, but Lord knows we aren't the most demonstrative of groups.