Children's Choir

Diane Dawson (Classes)

Diane Dawson has served as the Children’s Music Minister at The People’s Church (First Baptist Church) in Franklin, TN, since 1988, after serving in the same role at First Baptist, Jacksonville, FL., for ten years. In Franklin, she has built a fully graded program for children 3 years old through 5th grade. Her choirs have had the opportunity to participate in many exciting projects including recording projects, national premieres of children’s musicals and the premiere performances of several LifeWay VBS musicals, including “Outrigger Island” 2008. Diane has led summer music camps for children on the foreign and home mission field, including Peje, Kosova, East Harlem, NYC, and the Hawaii Pacific Baptist convention summer music camp. The basis of the children’s music ministry led by Diane is an integration of music education, performance opportunities, and strong spiritual foundations and content. Diane writes all the curriculum for the choirs at The People’s Church, Franklin. She also writes teacher resources for several publishers, and has served as the demonstration teacher for LifeWay CMS videos. She is the creator of “Hymn Treasures,” a fully graded hymn memory program, including children’s book, teacher’s resource and CD.

Donna Carole Kitchens (Classes)

Donna Carole Kitchens has taught children’s choirs for over 12 years. She currently serves as Children’s Choir Ministry Coordinator at East Cooper Baptist Church near Charleston, SC where she also directs the graded choirs, Kindergarten through 5th grades. Donna Carole is a regional conference leader and lives with her husband and three children in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.

Cyndi Nine (Classes)

Cyndi Nine is a Music Associate at Prestonwood Baptist Church, where she leads the Kids’ Music Ministry and has performed the role of production manager for many major events presented by the Adult Music and Worship Ministry. She received a Bachelor of Science from Texas Tech and went on to teach elementary school for the next four years before moving on to become a stay-at-home mom. Seven years later, in 1996, she joined the Prestonwood music staff. Over the last 14 years, she has directed and produced 15 musicals, with anywhere from 250 to 350 children in each. She also acted as the production manager for the Dallas Christmas Festival for six years. She has helped create and write three kids’ musicals for “Little Big Stuff” publishers in Nashville, Tennessee over the last two years. Cyndi and her husband Mark have three children who have grown up in children’s choir. She is a firm believer in providing new and innovative ways of helping children learn to worship and use their talents to honor the Lord.

Amanda Singer (Classes)

Amanda Singer has served as the Vocal Music Pastor of adult, youth, and kid’s choirs at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, Texas, since 1996. Since its founding in 1990, Community Bible Church has become one of the fastest growing congregations in America, and alongside the Worship Pastor, Ray Jones, Amanda has facilitated the corresponding worship ministry’s growth and pioneered a thriving Kids Choir Ministry. With the goal of teaching worship as a lifestyle and not just a church activity, Amanda writes and arranges music relevant to kid’s day to day lives, includes times of worship into each weekly lesson plan and uses worship concepts as the basic curriculum. With the goal of evangelism, she then prepares them to make an impact on others throughout the city. The children take their worship to the streets in such diverse places as local housing projects, theme parks, NBA Basketball Games, shopping malls and the San Antonio Arneson River Theater. A published composer and arranger of choral worship, Amanda’s original music is used in church programs and worship services, recorded on CBC worship projects, and is presented in Prism Music and Lillenas publications worldwide.