DATE: Friday, September 12, 1997            TAG: 9709100194

SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS     PAGE: 04   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY JANIE BRYANT, STAFF WRITER 

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WORKSHOPS AND CHOIR CONCERT SET AT BETHANY BAPTIST

The 200-voice National Christian Choir from Washington, D.C., will perform at 4 p.m. Saturday at Bethany Baptist Church.

The concert is sponsored by the Portsmouth Baptist Association. Donations will be accepted.

C. Harry Causey, director and founder of the choir, will present two workshops on Friday and Saturday at the same church, 4810 Portsmouth Blvd.

The first will be open to pastors, worship leaders and ministers of music of all area churches and will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday.

A workshop for church musicians will be held from 8:30 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Causey is founder and president of Music Revelation, which offers services and materials designed to help church leaders and musicians bring creativity to their services.

He founded the National Christian Choir in 1984. The volunteer choir, with members from about a hundred churches, has appeared at the Kennedy Center and the National Cathedral.

The choir has toured the Holy Land, Eastern Europe and several cities on the East Coast.

Causey has been a featured speaker or music leader at numerous national events. He led the music for part of the Billy Graham Crusade in Cincinnati and served as guest chorus master of the internationally known Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

He is a published composer and arranger with more than 100 choral anthems in print.

Causey, who now lives in Sykesville, Md., was ordained as a pastoral minister by the Evangelical Church Alliance and has served as minister of music to churches in Cincinnati and Bethesda, Md.

He studied at Davidson College, Florida State University and the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. MEMO: For more information on the concert or workshops, call Rev. Jesse

Ramage, director of missions and ministries for the Portsmouth Baptist

Association, at 488-1162.

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