January 1, 2023

Prophecy and Poetry

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Beacon’s annual poetry service, is led today by Nicole Jacobson and our worship associates. The hustle and bustle of the year's end can create some anxiety and ungrounding. As we enter a new year, we will look to center ourselves for the upcoming year. The service will take a meditative journey, starting with a period of rest and recovering and then a journey into centering, following which we will recommit to our yearly theme of Magnify the Light. During our single service at 10 AM, you will find contemporary wisdom from some of our favorite poets. Our special music guest is trombonist Jason Jackson.

Worship leaders in order of appearance:

  • John O’Neill (Pianist)

  • Missy Rogers, (Worship Associate)

  • Nicole Jacobson (Lead Ministry Team)

  • Jason Jackson (Trombonist)

  • Karen Engelmeyer (Worship Associate)

  • Dick Muldoun (Reader)

  • Helen Kaar (Worship Associate)

  • Sallie Glomb Reinmund (Chaplain)

  • Carol Conger Miller (Offertory)

Music:

  •  Amazing Grace

  • Lift Every Voice and Sing (John Rosamond Johnson )

  • Caravan (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Juan Tizol) 

  • Music: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington)

Currently, Jason Jackson teaches Jazz Trombone at The Juilliard School and has been one of the busiest and most respected trombone players in New York City since settling there 25 years ago. In addition to the two years he spent touring the world with Ray Charles not long after his arrival, Jason has been the lead trombonist in the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band for the past decade. On Mondays, his off-nights from playing in the pit bands of such Tony Award-winning Broadway productions as The Color Purple, Wonderful Town, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and Motown the Musical, he has been a member for the past 10 years of the Grammy Award-winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard. He also teaches part-time at City College of New York, performs about once per month in a group he co-leads with his wife, vocalist Rosena Hill Jackson, and even finds time to occasionally sit in at jam sessions.

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