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Lynn Duke Urda, Founder and Director of the Gwinnett Young Singers north of Atlanta, has fascinating stories about the genesis of the Young Singers. In today's episode, Randy interviews Lynn about and the expansive programming she continues to build today. Lynn is the quintessential energetic, enthusiastic voice of experience for all of us who direct student choirs in our churches, schools, and communities. Please listen and be newly inspired for your work with today's teenagers.

Holly Reynolds Lee, Founder and Director of Voices in Praise (VIP) in Dunkirk, MD, relays results of a crucial question she asked her graduating seniors. We encourage our listeners to observe carefully the words of Holly in this episode; they are central to what makes student choir such an important ministry among today's teenagers.

Randy and Aaron continue their earlier discussion on cross-cultural conversations and how crucial they are for understanding in a very complex and divisive world.

In this delightful and enlightening episode, Dana Effler assures us that "One Side Does Not Fit All." Inspiration awaits!

Randy welcomes back pastor Stuart Lamkin for a discussion on how Stuart's youth choir experience twenty-five years ago helped prepare him specifically for his vocation as a senior pastor and the ministry he provides today.

Randy continues his series on "Distancing Our Student Choirs." Robert and Cindy Sterling read today's episode, providing a recap of earlier series episodes and providing four distinct advantages for having our students properly distanced when they sing in the choral setting. At YouthCUE, we have seen students grow into this new space by singing more confidently and sensitively.

Today, Randy interviews Dr. Aaron Tyler, Professor of International Affairs at St. Mary's University of Texas. Aaron's global work, consulting, and writing in the arena of peace and justice are both fascinating and instructive. In today's conversation, Aaron and Randy discuss the importance of cross-cultural dialogue and how crucial it is in our communities, nation, as well as around the world. As you listen, be ready to be challenged and expanded, for there is an enormous need today for proactive listening.

Randy continues his series on "Distancing Our Student Choirs." Today, we look at the advantages to the choral sound when young singers are spaced appropriately and have room to breathe, listen, produce their own sound, and blend. Three decades of festivals at YouthCUE have provided the laboratory for finding better ways to seat and stand students so they can provide a better, more vibrant, more in-tune sound.

YouthCUE alumnus and now senior pastor Stuart Lamkin provides memories from his youth choir experience and lessons learned in student choirs for his ministry today. Stuart's memory of music provides a virtual anthology of text, melodies, and harmonies as he recounts his time singing as a teenager. Listen, and be amazed and inspired!

In today's episode, Randy begins a series on "Distancing Our Student Choirs." As social distancing has become a hot topic of discussion and protocol these days, it might come as a surprise to some that providing a little more distance for our singers might be a good thing to continue well beyond pandemic times.