Chrysalis Community Choir
The Community Choir is a brand new initiative for Chrysalis. The aim of the choir is for people from the local community who love to sing to get together, meet new friends and have fun whilst singing a variety of styles including Gospel and Musical Theatre.
We are fast approaching the first rehearsal and things are progressing really well. Over 30 singers have already signed up to join the new initiative which starts rehearsing on Wednesday 5th November at the McMinn Centre Chesham for 5 weeks.
If you love singing and feel your voice hasn’t been used since those dim and distant school assembly days there are still places available. Please contact office@chrysalis.org.uk or 01494 581115 for an information pack and get warbling!
‘Hatching’ into a new phase
Since Nicki and Mandy became ‘Mums’ in 2007 it has become clear that national (or international!) Chrysalis tours were no longer so practical for them.
Some years ago they had felt a leaning towards presenting Chrysalis locally on a more regular basis in the Trusts home town of Chesham to establish a working reality of this type of relational evangelism. Now they feel God is again calling Chrysalis to engage more with the local community just as it did when it started back in 1992.
Nicki and Mandy got thinking and praying to see exactly what God had in mind for them and Chrysalis. Several ideas came out that were developed and brought to the Trustees to consider. The Trustees were encouraged by all the ideas, and after more prayer, they decided to proceed with the local choir proposal. (see separate item)
With this new initiative, the Trustees had to look at the role of Development Director. The change in focus from national expansion to more local work, meant that going forward, a Development Director was no longer a necessity. Consequently the difficult decision was made to not renew Jo’s Contract when it expires in January 2009. It was some relief when Jo admitted that she had been contemplating becoming a full time Mum as both her girls will be at school/pre-school from next year.
So the Classical Team will continue to tour and work alongside local churches in the UK. The Cabaret and main teams will not completely cease to exist but whilst not touring as regularly as they have done, they will be available for certain projects and people will be advised to ring the office if they are interested in using these teams. Chrysalis Rocks is still ‘in the wings’ but we hope they are on the road in 2009.
We do believe that Chrysalis is now ‘hatching’ into our next phase. We are all excited by the Community Choir, and other local projects. We believe God has great plans for Chrysalis. Thank you for your backing in the past and we would ask for your continued prayers as we move towards these new ventures.
Financial Policy
Chrysalis Arts Trust is a registered charity whose key mission is to present the Gospel in relevant, entertaining, non threatening ways using the Performing Arts, usually in a cabaret style presentation. To keep a ministry team on the road is an expensive operation and can easily drain our resources.
Our financial policy is to come on a suggested gift basis, for which we try to estimate our costs to keep the charity actively involved on the ‘mission field’. We feel that as a responsible Christian Ministry it is right to operate in this way to allow as many fellowships as possible, large or small, to be able to host a Chrysalis event regardless of cost.
However to operate a quality ministry and as a registered charitable trust we must obviously be able to cover our expenses. The suggested amount that you have been given for this presentation is constantly reviewed and regulated by the trustees and purely covers the cost of doing this production.
We aim to give a professional presentation because we believe it is more effective in this type of ministry and more glorifying to God. Many of our team members are fulltime musicians and actors, and gladly give their time and abilities for a fraction of professional rates in order to be involved in presenting the Gospel in this way. Anything you give above this figure will go into the growth of Chrysalis, and furthering its work in Schools, prisons and other places that cannot give any money at all.
We would like to stress that the fees are suggested amounts only. Please talk to us if there is a problem, and we can work something out!
Thank you so very much for your help.
