Music  

Through the Arts, we nurture a congregational song which celebrates the redemptive love of God, models the servanthood of Christ, and awakens the transforming passion of the Holy Spirit -
God in us.

Welcome Dr. David N. Childs
new Director of Choral Music

by Dr. Bradley Hunter Welch
Director of Music & Arts/Organist

I am thrilled to announce and welcome Dr. David N. Childs as HPUMC’s new Director of Choral Music. Childs is a native of New Zealand, and comes to us from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he has been Associate Professor of Choral Studies for the past ten years.  An internationally renowned composer and conductor, he has served in Anglican, Episcopal, and Methodist churches. Childs is married to Dr. Lesley French Childs, an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, & throat doctor) who is additionally an accomplished soprano.  more...