I was attending a Free Methodist church (don't ask why!) in Chicago when a woman who was the choir director of another FM church (I believe in Milwaukee) was visiting with her husband. We got to talking after the service about John Wesley's hymns and I said how much I liked "And Can It Be" and sang the first line (the bass part) of the arrangement that was in our hymnal. She looked at her husband and said, "What I could do with that voice!" and begged me to move to Milwaukee so I could sing in her choir.

From then on I didn't listen when people said I didn't have a good voice or couldn't sing. I knew better -- I had an unsolicited endorsement and it's given me the confidence to sing in church choirs, and solo with my guitar, ever since then.

Bless her, bless her!

Alex