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Campus News

Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

A look at what's happening on campus this week.

Faith

Cleansed through the Cross

Dr. Quarles speaks on the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice at weekly chapel

Sports

LC hoops teams wrap up homestand with pair of wins

Off to Ozarks, UT-Dallas next

Organizations

LC media student give to Toys for Tots

More than 100 toys will help local charity

Campus Life

February is Heart Health Awareness Month

Stay healthy and 'God Red'

Culture

All the Shakespeare you could laugh at… and more!

tlc's adaptation of 'Shakespeare Abridged' pulls out all the stops

Special Coverage

LC brings another successful ‘Follow the Star’

'Christmas on the Hill' and 'Gala' add to festive weekend

“Voices” sing their praises at stirring spring concert

by Al Quartemont

Audience wowed by spirit-filled performance

It was moments before their spring concert. In the back hall of Granberry, Dr. Fred Guilbert was gathered with the members of his praise ensemble, The Voices of Louisiana College, for a time of prayer.

A night where the group would be using for the first time a new sound system - and in the world of music, that's usually a pretty unsettling development.

But bathed in prayer, "Voices" took the stage and sang their hearts out to God and the audience in a stirring concert that lasted for more than 90 minutes.

"I just felt God all over it," Dr .Guilbert said. "Our intent is never to perform. We're not trying to be worship leaders but to lead in worship."

And that they did. Again. As they have done so many times before around campus, across the state, and even across the country.

Voices is now in its third year under Dr. Guilbert. They have carried on the legacy once held by the group known before as Common Good.

Current members of voices include LC graduates Cameron Weatherford and Mary Evelyn Dirks. Seniors on the group are Clifford Magee, Adena Vincent, and Ben Waites. The rest of the team includes John Simmons, Candy Loyd, Margie McBride, Keri Beth Ellis, Kellie Fuselier and Joseph Cole.

The group performs its concert for the campus each spring and will be holding auditions for next year's group before the semester comes to an end.

Voices will have a busy summer coming up, too. They are scheduled to perform in Orlando in June at the Southern Baptist Convention at the LC Breakfast event.

Otherwise, during the school year, Voices will perform once a month around the state. The group practices each week, meeting Monday nights from 9 to 11:30 p.m.

For Dr. Guilbert, Voices has allowed him to fulfill a dream. He was asked to come back to LC in 1976 to lead Common Good, but felt back then that he could not do it because of family reasons.

So to bring Voices alive on the LC campus now has allowed him to get another opportunity.

"To come back now, it is a lifelong dream come true," Dr. Guilbert said.

And Dr. Guilbert's dream seems to be touching many people around the campus and community. The audience in attendance Thursday night seemed quite moved.

And when it was over, nobody seemed to quick to leave.

In fact, up on stage, perhaps hoping to keep a special night going for just a little while longer, the male Voices put on their own encore.

And the sound system seemed to work just fine.

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