[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 30, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               HONORING THE MOODY MEN'S COLLEGIATE CHOIR

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                          HON. TIMOTHY WALBERG

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 30, 2007

  Mr. WALBERG. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 50th 
anniversary of a very special organization.
  More than 1000 young men have sung in the Moody Men's Collegiate 
Choir since it's founding in 1957 as the Moody Men's Glee Club under 
the vision of founding conductor, Robert Carbaugh; a distinguished 
former professor of the Sacred Music Department of Moody Bible 
Institute in Chicago. Like all male choruses or glee clubs, the choir's 
members have enjoyed experiences of singing, touring, camaraderie and a 
wealth of tradition.
  Distinctive to this organization is a significant focus on the praise 
of God--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--and the proclamation of God's Word 
through music. The mission of singing about their faith has taken this 
outstanding choral ensemble and its conductors over the years to all 50 
of our United States, to Canada and to numerous destinations overseas, 
most recently to Australia and New Zealand in 2005. We salute former 
conductors Mr. Robert Carbaugh, Dr. Kerchal Armstrong, Mr. John Wilson, 
Mr. Vann Trapp, the late Mr. Robert Iler, Dr. Terry Strandt, and Dr. 
Timothy Newton, current conductor Dr. H.E. Singley III and all the 
members of the Moody Men's Collegiate Choir past and present for 50 
years of music-making in service to their Lord, Moody Bible Institute 
and the Christian church around the world.
  Madam Speaker, we also honor them for their commitment to be men of 
character and faith. Their challenge can be heard in the words of a 
piece of music sung by these choirs over the years: ``God wants a man 
honest and true and brave, a man who hates the wrong and loves the 
right, a man who scorns all compromise with sin, who for the truth 
courageously will fight. God wants a man in lowly walk or high, who to 
the world by daily life will prove that Christ abides within the 
yielded heart, fitting that heart for service and for love. God wants a 
man who dares to tell the truth, who in the market place will stand 
four-square, whose word men trust, a man who never stoops to hurt his 
fellowman or act unfair. God wants a man of action and of faith whose 
life is something more than can't and talk, who lives each day as 
though it were his last and proves his faith by a consistent life. God 
wants a man of action and of faith.'' We honor the Moody Men's Choir 
for their 50 years of service and extend our best wishes for a bright 
future of expanded ministry.

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