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German Youth Choir To Hold Concert

Tookula, a 60-voice German youth choir, will present a free concert of classical, folk, popular and sacred music from around the world at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 26, at Grace Lutheran Church, 313 S. Prospect Ave., Champaign. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to help defray costs of the choir’s travel.

In Memoriam + Joel Stephen Hilgendorf

It has pleased our Father in heaven to call Joel Hilgendorf home to Himself. Please keep his family and friends in your prayers.

He has now come to his reward, to the place prepared for him and all those who trust in Christ Jesus, to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God, to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven, to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. For lo Christ says: “I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.” Thanks be to God! He does all things well. May he rest + in peace. Amen.