1. Dawson Memorial Baptist Church
Schedule
8:30-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 Welcome
9:00-9:55 Group Session 1:
Gimmicks, Tips & Secrets
for Sensational Singing
Charlotte McElroy
10:00-10:55 Small Group Sessions
11:00-11:55 Group Session 2:
Theology for Classroom This Little Light of Mine
Management
Charlotte McElroy I’m Gonna Let It Shine
12:00-12:55 Lunch
“Let your light shine before men, that they may see your
1:00-1:55 Small Group Sessions good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”
Matthew 5:16
2:00-2:55 Group Session 3:
Growing in Grace
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church
Preschool and Children’s Music Ministry
Terry Taylor Children’s Music Leadership Conference
2:35-3:30 Small Group Sessions Saturday, January 28, 2012
8:30am—
8:30am—4:30 pm
3:35-4:00 Closing Group Session:
Birmingham, AL 35209
Let Your Light Shine!
1114 Oxmoor Road
This Little Light of Mine
I’m Gonna Let It Shine
Bob Hatfield
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church
1114 Oxmoor Road
Birmingham, AL 35209
205.871.7324
www.dawsonchurch.org

2. Registration
Learn from the Brightest and Best! Please send separate registration forms
for each person who will be attending.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND OLDER CHILDREN Name ____________________________________________
Charlotte McElroy is a free-lance children’s music clinician, festival/camp leader and curriculum writer from Tupelo, Mississippi. She
Address __________________________________________
has directed choirs of all ages and has been a private vocal instructor. She has taught in churches, schools and at Ridgecrest, Glo-
rieta and Junaluska assemblies. Her curriculum materials for preschool through older children have been published by Growing in __________________________________________________
Grace Children’s Music Curriculum, LifeWay, Choristers Guild, Abingdon Press and DOT Music Resources. Recently, Charlotte has
joined Synergy for Ministry, an Internet service, as an instructor of classes and webinars. Charlotte is a graduate of Mississippi Church ___________________________________________
College, holds the Master of Music degree from the University of Mississippi and is Orff certified. She currently volunteers as the co-
Email Address ____________________________________
director of the older children’s choir at Calvary Baptist Church in Tupelo. Her lifelong pursuit is equipping church leaders to worship
through music and to use music to teach about Christ. Phone __________________________________________
Rotation Desired (please choose one)
PRESCHOOL YOUNGER CHILDREN
Derry Billingsley is Minister of Music at First Susan Earnisse has worked with children’s __ Preschool (3-Kindergarten)
Baptist Church, Alabaster, Alabama. He re- choirs of all ages and currently directs the
__ Younger Children (1st-3rd)
ceived his Bachelor of Music Education degree Young Musicians Choir at First Baptist
from Middle Tennessee State University and a Church of Carrollton, GA. She taught music __ Older Children (4th-6th)
Master of Church Music degree from Southern in public and private schools for twenty
Seminary. Derry has written for LifeWay’s years, and currently works as a freelance Registration fee is $25 per person
Music Time preschool curriculum and for children’s music writer and consultant. and includes lunch.
Growing in Grace Children’s Music Design. He Susan has written children’s choir curricu-
has led preschool choir conferences at Ridgecrest and Glorieta Baptist lum for LifeWay’s Children’s Music Series, Dovetail Musicals and Growing Please return completed
Conference Centers, as well as throughout the country. in Grace Children’s Music Design. Susan has a passion for sharing music registration forms and fees
of the church with children so that they can become lifelong active
by January 15, 2012 to
participants in worship.
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER ATTENTION: Tracy Hanrahan
Terry D. Taylor received his Bachelor’s degree in Church Music from Belmont University and his Master’s degree in Church Music and 1114 Oxmoor Road
Conducting from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Terry is a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky. He has been a full-time
Birmingham, AL 35209
Minister of Music for nearly 30 years, serving churches in Georgia, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Terry is currently the Associate Pastor,
Worship and Music Ministries at Shades Crest Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, an adjunct professor at Samford University, and
managing editor of Growing in Grace Children’s Music Curriculum. Terry is widely known as a children’s music conference leader, guest For more information, contact
conductor and music advocate. Before moving to Birmingham, Terry served on the Executive Board of Dothan, Alabama's Cultural Arts Tracy Hanrahan,
Center where he chaired the Education Committee and led a volunteer initiative called “ENCORE,” which led to the rehiring of profes- Preschool & Children’s Choir Coordinator
sional music teachers in public schools. 205.871.7324 ext. 728
Tracy.Hanrahan@dawsonchurch.org