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ABOUT US…………..

 

The Bay County Christian Youth Choir (ages 13-18) rehearses for the 2011-2012 choir year every Monday evening (September through May) from 6:00-7:00 at the Zimmerman house in Lynn Haven (1510 Wildridge Road).   

Please watch the promotional videos posted about the choir and its mission and listen to our sound clips (click on the Media Tab above) and then come to a rehearsal and check us out! Please email Nevin Zimmerman at nevin@nevinzimmerman.com or call him at (850) 215-6604 for more information. You can also click on the Events Tab above or go to the Bay County Christian Youth Choir organization page at www.facebook.com for weekly information about the choir including upcoming performances and events.

The choir performs a Fall or Christmas concert, sings three or four times throughout the year at area churches and also sings at three or four community events. Each year the choir takes a Spring tour, and the 2011 Spring Tour (5/20/11-5/30/11) was  to the Niagara Falls, New York area with the theme of  “Let the Nations Be Glad” taken from Psalm 67:4 “Let the nations be glad and sing for joy”.  Pictures from the 2011 World Tour and the Tour Script are located on this website.

There is a tour fee that covers ALL expenses (lodging, activities, food, etc.) except for five or six  “fast-food” type meals. Scholarships are available for anyone that needs financial assistance in paying for the tour fees. Also, fundraising opportunities will be available to help with tour fees. The expense of the choir tour is NEVER a reason to not  participate in the choir; we work to make the tour fee reasonable  and we provide scholarships to those that need them!

The choir sings a mixture of classical choral literature, traditional hymn arrangements, spirituals as well as contemporary praise and worship songs, and each choir member will have a speaking part during the tour program. Each tour program is thematic, with the songs and speaking parts tied together by this theme. There are short Bible devotions throughout the year during choir rehearsal, and on tour the choir will view teaching videos on the bus and participate in Bible studies throughout the tour.

The Bay County Christian Youth Choir, Inc., an independent interdenominational youth choir, was established in 2009 under the conviction that the future of congregational participation in the music of the church lies in the training and nurturing of its youth and children. The choir has the goals of teaching choir members (i) to speak and sing in public, (ii) the experience of performing locally and on choir tours, (iii) how to work together to achieve goals that can only be achieved collectively, (iv) the discipline of making a long-term commitment and the rewards of hard work, (v) how to "get along" with fellow choir members and (vi) skills that enable the choir members to be what God has called us all to be: worshipers of Him.

Nevin Zimmerman (Chairman) and his wife Gigi (Accompanist and Tour Director) have been involved directing and organizing traveling youth choirs for 19 years, and they felt the need, along with others, to start the Bay County Christian Youth Choir.  Jody Schnell is the Director for the choir, and she has a performance degree in voice from the University of Oklahoma. Jody has many years of experience directing choirs in high school and serves as the music director at First Presbyterian Church and the Pro Arte Chorale of Northwest Florida.  Eric Schrotenboer is also director and accompanist, and he is a composer and pianist, most recently writing scores for movies and documentaries and working part-time for the Christian Associates, a church planting mission work. You can read more about Eric (and listen to his audio clips) at www.ericschrot enboer.com .  
The Bay County Christian Youth Choir, Inc. is a not-for-profit Florida corporation. The Board of Directors consists of men and women that are successful in their chosen vocations, and it brings years of experience and enthusiasm to the youth choir ministry.
Board of Directors: Nevin Zimmerman (Chairman), Jody Schnell (Vice-Chairman), George Baker (Secretary/Treasurer), Alexis Watson, Jay Trumbull, Dr. Steve Smith, Frank Skerratt,  Ashley DeVries, Monica Halvorson, Dr. Milinda Stephenson and Susie Underhill.
Choir Directors: Jody Schnell and Eric Schrotenboer; Tour Coordinator: Gigi Zimmerman
Membership in the choir is open to any interested student, and no choir member is required to subscribe to the below statement of belief. However, all Board members must consent to the following confession of faith adopted by the National Association of Evangelicals:
• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
• We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.