Monday Notes - W&M 2025

Have questions? Need help finding your classes? Watch for directional signs at major foot-traffic points and volunteers in bright yellow vests. They will answer your questions and point you in the right direction.

Audition Results. The audition results for the adult and senior high chamber choirs, advanced handbell ensemble, and talent show will be available by 7:00 am today on the sliding doors to Assembly Inn, through the Yapp app, and on our website at presbymusic.org/wmc/audition. You may pre-pay for your chamber choir packet using the links below, so you don’t have to wait in line at Convocation Hall.

Square link:  https://square.link/u/CCpRFSVc

Venmo link:  https://venmo.com/u/BeethovenAndCompany

Talent Show Participants. All participants must attend a mandatory tech check today at 5:20 pm in Anderson Auditorium. 

Transportation Assistance: If you have need of golf cart transport, please go to the PAM office to purchase a pass and sign the liability waver. Space is limited.

Conference App. You do not want to miss announcements, class and schedule changes, or information about pop up events! The best place to find all these things is via the Yapp App. Download Yapp from Google Play or the Apple Store. Use the conference id WM25 to access the conference.

Document Library. Access to the 2025 Worship & Music Conference Document Library is available to all attendees via the following link: www.presbymusic.org/2025-library. The webpage password will be emailed to all registered adults.

Morning Prayer. Room AI-1 at 7:30 am, no designated leader, written guides provided

Evening Prayer. Online bedtime stories and prayers, books available in AI-1 (do not remove). Today’s story is Stone Soup. presbymusic.org/conference-evening-prayer

Meetup Groups.

Lunch Gathering for First Timers. First-time Attendees are invited to attend lunch together following Monday worship. Bring your lunch or purchase a lunch at The Huck. We will meet adjacent to The Huck as you enter the upper level near Lake Susan.

Dinner Gathering for BIPOC conferees. Bring dinner to Moore Center Upper (next to the Huckleberry Café) at 5:30 pm. The gathering will be hosted by Margaret Aymer, conference preacher.

Evening Gathering for LGBTQIA+ conferees. Join Amy Cerniglia at Goldfinch (122 Cherry Street in Black Mountain) after tonight’s organ and guitar concert.

Chamber Choirs - Adult and Senior High. Participants must purchase a music packet prior to the first rehearsal on Monday at 8 am. Adult and Senior High packets will ONLY be available in Convocation Hall beginning at 7:15 am.

All Handbell Participants. Please purchase your music in the Jeffers Store, located in the Way Out building, before the first rehearsal. Participants are responsible for bringing gloves and a folder to rehearsals.

Family Concert: Six Strings and the King. Tonight at 7:30 pm in Anderson Auditorium, hear organist Tom Trenney and guitarist David LaMotte together in concert.

Youth Evening Activity. Middler and Senior High conferees are invited to join in tonight’s evening activity in the Upper Moore Center. The fun will start 15 minutes after the Family Concert and will be led by Daniel Otu.

Small Group Locations. Middler and Senior High Small Group meeting rooms are listed on your daily schedule. Rooms are Assembly Inn 251 and 303.

Chaperones. If you are registered as a chaperone, you are required to attend the classes listed on your daily schedule to actively assist with supervision of children and youth. Thank you for helping to keep our young ones safe! 

Choral Reading Session: Choristers Guild led by Emily Floyd at 1:30 pm in AA.

Late Check-In. If you still need to register, check-in, or pick up conference materials, please visit the PAM office located in the Allen Building, lower level.

Lend a Helping Hand. If this is your first time at the Worship & Music Conference, we are so glad you’re here! If you have questions about the conference or where to find your classes, feel assured that there is a culture of openness and camaraderie here at Montreat and Worship & Music conferees help one another, so do not be afraid to ask! If you are attending without a group and want someone to sit with during worship, there is a section reserved for first time attendees and singles in the front section on the lake side of AA.

PAM Certification. If you are interested in pursuing PAM Certification and would like to meet with a Certification Committee member this week, please contact Beth Judd at bethjudd99@gmail.com.

Interest Sessions.

Jazz Vespers: Worship and Education (Assembly Inn-1)

This Book Stirred My Soul! (Belk Center Upper/Left Bank)

Guest Musicians: Ensure Success! (Assembly Inn-Lakeside)

Worship Research. PAM is partnering with the Center for Worship and the Arts at Samford University as they conduct worship research with young adults. Nelson Cowan will be conducting interviews with interested young adults this week. These individual interviews will include a discussion about your worship experience at Worship & Music as well as your participation in worship within your local church community. We hope you will participate in this important research. If you are interested and would like to sign up for an interview time or have any questions, please contact Nelson Cowan at ncowan@samford.edu or visit the Samford University Center for Worship and the Arts table in the exhibit hall.

Clothed in Love Stoles. Monday's Word-of-the-Day Stole, Compassion, portrays the profound challenge of suffering with others. Its "messy" lettering evokes the beauty and complexity of shared pain, while the aqua water-printed cloth symbolizes the waters of baptism that unite us in grace.