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Choir Rehearsals

Rehearsals begin again on Wednesday, August 4. Join us in person on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.


A Call for Men's Voices

Holy Trinity will be starting a Men's Choir this year. If you sing in the shower or the car, you're perfect for our group! We will sing three times this year, for All Saints' Sunday (Nov 7), St. Andrew's Day (Nov 28), and Good Friday (Apr 15), with two Sunday rehearsals prior to each day, right after the 10:30a service. Please contact Will Buthod if you're interested.


Will Buthod Performs for American Cathedral in Paris Concert Series

Please join us on Friday, August 6, 2021, at 1 p.m. for the seventh concert in the First Fridays Organ Series, featuring organist William Buthod of Holy Trinity Parish in Decatur, Georgia. The concerts are free, but signup is required. If you have not already signed up, click here to register.

The First Fridays Organ Concert Series is a series of virtual concerts celebrating our Great Organ, taking place on the First Friday of every month this year. The series will continue through 2021 and features such talents as Nathan Laube, Lucas Bastian and Andrew Dewar.

Thoughts during a musical quarantine

As the world shuts down, music in the church lives on. It’s been a particularly poignant Holy Week and Easter this year, like none before, and my 25th in music ministry. I never could have imagined it looking like this. But I feel somehow blessed to be able to continue creating musical offerings for the HTP family.

If you haven’t talked to any musician friends of yours, you may not notice how painful this lockdown has been for musicians. I’m not talking about losing music jobs or finances, even though that is a huge issue for every musician I know. I’m describing a deeper longing, a burning, a need to make music. Not just for other people but for ourselves, for our own souls. Listening to our parish choir members, it feels like a lot more than just missing our weekly choir rehearsal. There’s something magical that happens when we make music together, in the same place, at the same time. We breathe together, we express our faith together, we worship together.

As a musical mentor and songwriter once wrote, “ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby.” This quarantine has inspired us all to do creative things in our ministries. Learning new technology and adapting rehearsal practices all come with the daily terrain. But, no matter how adept we become in this new situation, there is no substitute for real live music, made in the same room with other musicians.

You see, musicians thrive on their interactions with other musicians and audiences. Making music alone and practicing is only a part of the equation. There’s something that happens, an indescribable connection between musicians that only lives in the actual, not virtual, world. And this, whether you sing in a choir or play in any sort of ensemble, is why we’re hurting. Musicians need actual interaction to create the best music. We need it to inspire us and to challenge us. We need it to find our own voices and to say what needs to be said. It’s a testament of our love for God.

Don’t get me wrong. We’ll be fine. And I am beyond grateful for what we’re able to do virtually. Our weekly rehearsals and services are proving to be spiritually healthy and rich. I will keep using this time as an opportunity to be creative, learn new things, and share moments of healing and calm. Besides, I’m in no rush to end social distancing. I just ask that you pray for musicians, and know how much we long for the day when we can come back and pray through song together.

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Will Buthod
Minister of Music

    Will Buthod

    Minister of Music

    Will Buthod, pianist, organist, composer, and conductor, has worked in church ministry for the past 26 years. Buthod is known for employing a wide range of styles to fit any given situation, and is in demand in multiple areas, from Gospel to Salsa and Bluegrass. He has served congregations in New York, Paris, Phoenix, and Atlanta, as well as throughout Oklahoma and New Jersey.

    As a performer, Buthod has won numerous competitions and awards, including the Albert Schweizer National Organ Competition, the Tulsa Young Artist Competition, and the Charlotte Bagnall Scholarship for Church Musicians. He has performed with or recorded for such artists as Jimmy Heath, Denyce Graves, Martina Arroyo, Ben Vereen, Jay-Z, Fat Joe, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Mashonda, Maiysha, Autumn Rowe, Nolan Williams, James Abbington, Roland Carter, and André Thomas. He recorded a live album with Grammy-nominated performer Maiysha at the Blue Note jazz club in New York City. During his stint in Paris, France, Buthod was the pianist for the American Ambassador for several years, while serving as Organist/Assistant Choir Director at the American Cathedral and co-founding a touring gospel group.

    Buthod’s gospel music background earned him a spot as pianist for the Harlem Gospel Choir, and he has played for such well-known preachers as Al Sharpton, Timothy Wright, James A. Forbes Jr., Johnny Ray Youngblood, and Albert Jamison, Jr. As a composer, he has composed over 300 works, from classical trios to R&B tunes, which are performed regularly throughout the country and abroad. Buthod’s knowledge and understanding of a variety of sacred music and its history has also made him a popular clinician and speaker.

    Outside his role as Minister of Music at Holy Trinity, Buthod also serves on the faculty at Candler School of Theology (Emory University), as Director of the gospel choir, Candler Voices of Imani, and as a frequent guest lecturer for the Episcopal and Anglican Studies Program. He is the founder and co-director of Voices Found, a community choir focused on social justice. In addition, for the past four years, Buthod has served as Music Director for the North Georgia Annual United Methodist Conference, the largest UMC conference in the United States. In 2020, he was also chosen to lead the music for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, and has served similar roles in other statewide and national convocations.

    Buthod lives in Tucker, with his wife, Verena, and their two dogs. When he’s not making music, he’s most likely cooking an adventurous dish or out fishing at a lake or pond.

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    10:30 a.m. Rite II with music in Nave and streaming on our YouTube Channel and facebook live.

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    Decatur, GA 30030

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    Sunday Worship

    8 a.m. Rite I in Chapel

    10:30 a.m. Rite II with music in Nave and streaming on our YouTube Channel and facebook live.

    When we gather for worship, we strive to glorify God with beautiful music, intentional silence, and words of both comfort and challenge. We also strive in our worship to welcome and include people of all ages and capabilities: people who wiggle and make noise, people whose cell phones go off, people who nod off during the sermon, people who can’t quite sing on key, and people who are so busy through the week that they struggle to “be still and know that you are God.”

    If you are bringing young children to our worship, THANK YOU! and we challenge you to try to engage them in the holy drama of worship: teach them our prayers and how to hold a hymnal, show them when to stand or kneel, and use our worship bags to give busy hands something to do. Or if it is better for you or your children that they be in our nursery, it is professionally staffed from 8:00 a.m. until just before communion at the 10:30 a.m. service, and it is located on the second floor next to the chapel.

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