McDonald - "The Love of God" (Aaron Bunnell, tenor)

OFFERTORY SOLO "The Love of God"
(hymn arranged by Mary McDonald, 2011)
Aaron Bunnell, tenor; Dale Morehouse, piano
St. John's Methodist - Kansas City, MO
May 05, 2024
Frederick M. Lehman was a California businessman who lost everything through business reverses. He was forced to spend his working hours in manual labor, working in a Pasadena packing house packing oranges and lemons into wooden crates. He was so moved by a Sunday evening sermon on the love of God that he could hardly sleep. The next morning, the thrill of the previous evening had not left him. As he drove to the packing house, the makings of a song began to come together in his head, with God’s love as the theme. Throughout the day, as he packed oranges and lemons, he picked up a scrap of paper and a stub pencil and, seated upon an empty lemon box pushed against the wall, he wrote “The Love of God.” Earlier in his life, he had lived in KCMO, where he helped to found the Nazarene Publishing House. Today’s setting is by our friend, Mary McDonald.