About the Music Barn
Welcome to the Gospel Music Barn website! The Chapel in the Pines Gospel Music Barn was started in 1967 by Leland and Yvonne Arntz. It has gone from a smaller building to its present size over the last 44 years. For most of those years, the Sunday evening Drive-in Church at Chapel in the Pines, with forty minutes of music and Pastor Arntz preaching the Word of God, was a great outreach in the Hudsonville community. Now the Gospel Music Barn is still carrying on the tradition of music on Friday and Saturday nights, and Sundays with a morning worship service of music and preaching, and also an evening of music and preaching, as has been the desire of the Arntz’s for all these years. Their faithfulness has been an inspiration to all who come every week to work, sing, play, preach, or just come to be blessed.
The new 2012 season is bringing new and exciting opportunities to the GMB. We will have groups come back this year that have not been here for a lot of years and some just a few years. Gospel Bluegrass has become very popular with many of you folks, and we have a couple of new men’s quartets that you will thoroughly enjoy.
We still have our Jamborees, and our 3nd Annual Bluegrass Festival and Pig Roast in August. Our Sundays include singing and preaching at both morning and evening services at Chapel in the Pines.
Everyone wants the Barn to continue to be there for them, so spread the news. We are looking forward to a fantastic season this year. Pray, come, bring family and friends. Financially, we need your help more than ever. Yes, I know that all of us have the same problem, BUT, you can never out-give the Lord. If we all do a little, it will then add up to much.
Thank you all for your love, prayers, giving, and helping to share the Word of God to all who will come and listen. See y’all soon!
Doug Zwyghuizen
Director
The music that you're hearing comes courtesy of Mark Kaniff, our resident pianist at the Gospel Music Barn.
From the Director’s Desk - An Open Letter to the People
Hello! I would like to share with you what is on my heart. I have the best job here at the ‘Gospel Music Barn.’ I hope that I have brought in the programs that you will enjoy this year. It is hard to please everyone, but we are trying to do our best. I do not get paid for doing this, and I would like to ask all of you to consider helping out as well. Churches have pastors, elders, deacons, committees, and others to help. It takes a lot of volunteers to keep things going. Some are every week, but others are certain times throughout the season.
Here are some of the needs. I would like to have one or two men to work with me in seeing that each program runs smoothly. They would also serve on the ‘Advisory Board.’ I would like six people, men and women, to serve on the Advisory Board in addition to the two men that will work with me. All suggestions would be presented to the Chapel in the Pines Board. We would like to have one or two ladies to help Yvonne to count heads each service or when she is not able to be there. We would also like to have helpers for the kitchen to be trained and ready to help, especially for ‘special programs.’
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Another important area is ‘Sound.’ It takes one person to run the sound board, but we also need one or two people to set up the equipment and relay what is plugged in where. Things run much more smoothly if we have enough people to help out in all these areas. Plus, there are other areas in which we need help. One is the helping with setting up chairs out back. Having someone overseeing this task is extremely helpful.
Please…Let me know what you are willing to help with or what your interest is and I will help put you where needed. Please PRAY! Then come see me. If you have questions, please feel free to ask. I would rather have you ask and not be able to help, than have you not ask and miss an opportunity to help.
The “Family” is pleased with what we are doing and we need to keep moving forward. We can only do that with your help. My contact information is as follows:
Phone: 616-669-3059
E-mail: mrdouglasz@yahoo.com
Mailing address: 2829 New Holland, Hudsonville, MI 49426.
I'll be looking forward to your response.
Yours in Christ,
Doug Zwyghuizen,
Director
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