Melbourne Staff Band

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Music has touched every emotion known to human beings. It touches our sadness and celebrates our successes; soothes and inspires; it’s as old as history and as modern as tomorrow’s news. The Melbourne Staff Band has a repertoire of music that can touch the very being of a person; music that goes to the heart for it comes from the heart. This band is a group of Christian men and women who want not only their music to be excellent but they want to live excellently for God.

It is our desire to extend the Kingdom of God through the ministry of music and the spoken word. To do this effectively we are dependent upon the grace of God to constantly shape in us the image of Jesus Christ. No-one else has touched the world like Jesus. You can listen to our music and be moved by its sound but we want to do more; we want to influence the world and so we bring not merely a performance but a person – Jesus Christ.

I contend that a living relationship with Jesus Christ is the only way to appropriately develop a true reflection of Jesus. We can only reveal that which we know and so we strive to know Christ and to make Him known.

We pray that as you listen to the music of the Melbourne Staff Band that you will be stirred to discover more about the ministry of the band, The Salvation Army and above all the Lord Jesus Christ. He can take your life as He has ours and make it something new.

The grace of Jesus be with you.

Major Leonard Turner
Executive Officer

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BALLARAT CONCERT

April
Saturday 19 Canberra
Sunday 20 Canberra
Friday 25 ANZAC Day March
Wednesday 30 Melbourne Concert with Philip Smith

During the first half of 2008, Bandmaster Ken Waterworth will be taking a short break from the MSB.

The MSB is pleased to announce that Colonel Robert Redhead has agreed to lead the MSB from the end of March until July 2008.

This will be the third Staff Band that Colonel Redhead has conducted, and we are very pleased and grateful that he has agreed to take an extended trip to Australia to take on this duty.

Macleod

The bands first official corps engagement for 2008 saw them head out to the North East suburb of Macleod to the local Salvation Army for a full Sunday of activities.
In addition to the brand new pristine short sleeved white shirts with the crimson epaulettes, the band took on a bit of a different look with Deputy Bandmaster Paul Smith taking the baton for the first 6 weeks of the new season whilst waiting for Colonel Robert Redhead to arrive. Staff Bandmaster Ken Waterworth is taking 6 months leave.

A couple of other moves of interest since the end of 2007 are Soprano cornet Jason Stewart also having some time away from the band and Neil Roper stepping up to take the Soprano reigns and Garry Todd taking over the Principle Solo Cornet seat.

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