First Friday Concert Series - November 2022

Jim Lampl

Jim Lampl is an actor/singer/entertainer from La Porte, IN. He will be playing his guitar and singing.

Jim's program -
Matthew 7:12 in a Secular World

* There But for Fortune - Phil Ochs

* Don’t Laugh at Me - Alan Shamblin and Steve Seskin

* Jim Dean of Indiana - Phil Ochs

* Botswana - John Stewart

* The Perfect High - Shel Silverstein

* Star in the Black Sky Shining - John Stewart

* Streets of London - Ralph McTell

* Ballad of the Carpenter - Ewan MacColl

* The Power and the Glory - Phil Ochs

He attended Interlochen Center for the Arts, Valparaiso High School, Northwestern University and Valparaiso University. Jim taught speeches, drama, and English at La Porte High School for 44 years, where he also directed over 90 plays and musicals.Among Jim’s favorite acting roles: Felix Unger (Odd Couple), Harry (Luv), King Sextimus (Once upon a Mattress), Charles Cheswick (One Flew over a Cuckoos’s Nest) Jade (Working), Cab Driver (Harvey), George Bailey (Merry Christmas, George Bailey), and Freddie the Freeloader. Jim also appeared with Imogene Coca in Plaza Suite and Robert Horton in There’s a Girl in my Soup.

First Friday Concert Series - October 2022

Mona Williams Coalter graduated from Indiana University in 1979 with a Master of Music Degree, with Distinction, in piano performance. In 1977 she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, summa cum laude, from Taylor University in piano performance and composition. After graduating from IU, Mona taught at
Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana, and then at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.

She has had two piano duet books of hymn arrangements published: “Praise Him! Praise Him!” and “For Every Season.” Musical collaboration has long held a special place in her heart, and she has been a staff accompanist at Roosevelt University and Moody Bible Institute, as well as doing free-lance accompanying work in the Chicago Area. She concertized with Un-Young Whang in the Coalter and Whang Piano Duo for several years and recorded a CD of four-hand piano works, “With Grateful Hands.”

She is currently a staff accompanist at Notre Dame University and is also a gardener and potter

Mona Coalter

Reflections: Music of Hope and Peace

• Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 Johann Sebastian Bach

• Prelude in C# Major, BWV 848

• Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI/50 Franz Joseph Haydn

• Allegro

• Adagio

• Allegro molto

• Romance, Op. 28 No. 2 Robert Schumann

• Arabesque No. 1 in E Major, L. 66 Claude Debussy

• All Creatures of Our God and King Lasst Uns Erfreuen/Arr. Mona Coalter

September First Friday Concert Review

Roger and Sue Smith played “Songs We Love; some slightly Seasoned”
Along with an accompanying track Rogers played clarinet and Sue on electric violin. The two played music appropriate for the attendees.

1. Sentimental Journey

2. When Morning Gilds the Skies / Praise My Soul, The King of Heaven

3. In the Bleak Midwinter

4. Younger Than Springtime

5. Melody of Five Spirituals:

   My Lord, What a Morning

   Swing Low Sweet Chariot

   Good News! Chariot’s Coming

   Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley

   Lord, I Want To Be a Christian

6. On the Sunny Side of the Street / What a Wonderful World

7. Can’t Help Falling in Love / Someone to Watch Over Me

8. Rog’s Rag

9. Summertime

10. Shine on Harvest Moon

11. Have I Told You Lately That I love You

12. The Lord’s Prayer

Roger on clarinet and Sue on electric violin

61 people in attendance for the first concert in September

First Friday Concert Series - September 2022

Sentimental Journey by Roger and Sue Smith
September 2, 2022 at 12:10pm

Roger and Sue Smith on clarinet, electric violin, and piano will open our First Friday Concert series.

Parents of seven children, they are life long residents of La Porte and local musicians who play with the Michigan City Municipal Band. Roger is a former LPHS math and chemistry teacher and Guidance Department director; Sue is a private piano teacher and local church choir director. Their program is entitled “A Sentimental Journey,” which includes selections familiar and loved. This is a concert not to be missed.

Please know, sack lunches are welcome in our air conditioned seating area. Join us for this lovely, free event!

Community Dinner July 19

The community has come to know St. Paul's as the Community Dinner Church. They always come together to support the church's meals. It is one of the things that the public has come to expect time and time again. They seek out the sign when it time for the dinner. Such a nice public invitation. During har times it was an invitation for a hot to-go meal.

The members of the church became excited to have in-person meals start up again in May. During this meal, the community that we have come to know over the year spoke up and we listened. We found out that in hard times few of the other familiar places were providing a hot meal any more. St. Paul’s stepped up and doubled the number of meals for the rest of the year. A new meal was added on the first Tuesday of the month and the current dinner moving to the third Tuesday.

Last night, the mains dish was a simple meatball sub sandwich, that was very filling . The side dishes included: scalloped potatoes, bean salad, baked beans, green beans, tossed green salad, fruit salad, cookies and a variety of pies among other items. As a church, are always blessed as we continue to have an plenty of volunteers. The church has never seen any one ever leave empty handed.

No matter the meal we remember this prayer:

God is Great God is Good
Let us thank him for our food
By His hands we are fed
We thank You for our daily bread.
Amen.