The Reward of Children

The Book of Psalm in the Old Testament of the Bible says that children are a reward, our heritage. This is unquestionably true with our son Morgan. He was in his second year of little league here in San Clemente when our family first became aware of the All American Boys Chorus, headquartered in Costa Mesa, http://www.taabc.org/ . We went to an orientation evening at the Chorus rehearsal hall. Morgan was apprehensive at first but soon we faced a difficult decision. Would Morgan continue with his baseball interests or switch over to the Chorus? He chose the Chorus and we have never looked back.

Morgan attends rehearsals in Costa Mesa and frequently goes there three times a week. In addition he performs in concerts throughout Southern California but that is not all. In the four years he has been a member of the chorus he has progressed through the ranks from a "white shirt," pledge, to a "blue shirt" in the training division, to his present status of "red shirt" signifying his membership in the concert chorus. He has learned to read music as he successively passed through four levels of music reading training.

Last summer Morgan was selected to tour Asia with the Chorus. The Chorus performed in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China, including Shanghai. The tour took nearly four weeks, from start to finish, and Morgan was only 12 years old at the time. We were so proud of him and so glad when he was home safely once again.

This summer Morgan is going on a tour of Western Canada and the Western United States. He will be gone for three weeks. The summer camp he attended last week was a lot about preparing the Chorus for the summer tour. This year at camp Morgan began learning to play the hand bells. He really seemed to enjoy it. We are very proud of what he has accomplished with his life already and the young man he has become.