Ron Klusmeier's “Tour of a Life Time”
Sunday September 30th 2012
Workshops: 2:00pm
Pick Up Band Rehearsal (pre register!): 5:30 pm
Pick Up Choir Rehearsal (Preregister!) 6:00pm
Concert: 7:30pm
Ticket Cost: Under 16 years $5.00all others $20.00 includes donation to Foodgrains Bank and YOUR home church!for tickets call Calvary United Church Office.
Throughout his 41-year career as a church musician and composer, Ron
Klusmeier has toured across Canada multiple times, sharing music that inspires and moves
people to action.
Now, as he prepares to retire, he will do one final tour—a “Tour of a Lifetime”—on behalf of
Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
“I want my final tour to do something significant for others,” says Klusmeier, who has visited
over 2,000 churches across North America since 1971, performing, leading workshops, and
serving as a worship consultant.
“It’s my hope that it will inspire people to action on behalf of the many people in the world
who don’t have enough food to eat.”
Although he spent most of his career in the United Church of Canada, including three years
as that church’s National Music Ambassador, Klusmeier has a deep commitment to
ecumenism; his music has been included in hymnbooks of the United, Anglican, Lutheran,
Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Methodist and other churches, and his music has been part
of every assembly of The World Council of Churches since the Fifth Assembly in Nairobi,
Kenya in 1975.
His commitment to building bridges between churches made working with the Foodgrains
Bank—an organization made up of 15 churches and church agencies representing 32
denominations working together to end global hunger—a natural choice.
“Sometimes there are walls that denominations inadvertently build between people, but the
Foodgrains Bank brings churches together for a common goal to end global hunger,” he
says.
During the tour, which starts in August 2012 and continues through to June 2013, Klusmeier
will perform and offer workshops on music, teaming with volunteer choirs at almost 200
churches from B.C. to the Maritimes. His wife, Christina, will lead workshops on the use of
technology in worship.
