Hagood Avenue Baptist Church
Music and Arts
1144 Hagood Avenue, Barnwell, SC 29812
Hagood Avenue Baptist Church 1144 Hagood Avenue ~ Barnwell, SC ~ 29812 Office: 803-259-3261 Fax: 803-259-3261 Email Us
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Praise Team
The Praise Team is presently made up of 7 members. Using Piano (Jennie Davis), Electric
Guitar (Mark Griffitt), Bass (John Rutland), and Drums (Randy Reece). Scott (Acoustic) serves as leader and lead
vocal. Deanna Grubbs and Barbara Bell joined vocals in January of 2005. The Praise Team leads a portion of our
Sunday morning worship in song. Click here PrayzTeam to view the Praise Team's home page
Adult Choir
The Adult Choir sings every Sunday morning to usher in our worship hour. Rehearsals are on Sunday evenings from
7:00pm to 8:00pm (nursery provided). The Adult Choir takes first hand involvement in bringing the Living Christmas
Tree to the public every other year and the Passion Play each year. For more on these events, click on links below.
Children's Choir
Our Children's Choir is for ages four through grade 6th. The children's choir meets every Sunday from 5:00pm to
5:54pm during the school year (September to May). The objectives for our children's choir are:
1) Singing every second Sunday of the month
2) Learning scripture and Godly principle's through music
3) Present a Musical/Drama at the end of the school year. This year's Musical has already been selected. It is
entitled "The Solid Rock Cafe" which will parallel food on a menu to the spiritual food we need on our Godly menu.
Directors are Teresa Sanders, Sonya Brown, Dana Williams, and Tish Ford.
Youth Interpretive Movement
Youth "HIM" group #1 has a total of 10 participants that make a message through interpreting songs through
movement, acting out the words, or panomime. The group is led by Deanna Grubbs, Julia Dickinson, and Barbara Bell.
Easter Passion Play
This Link will give you some detailed information about our annual Easter Drama as well as give you a link to reserve
FREE tickets for the event online.
Living Christmas Tree
This Link will give you detailed information about our semi-annual Living Christmas Tree as well as give you a link to
reserve FREE tickets for the event online.
Special Music
With the talent Hagood is blessed with we try to have a music selection by way of Solo, Duet, or small group every
Sunday. This is in addition to our Adult Choir special selection.
Joyful Praise (Ladies Ensemble)
Joyful Praise was formed back in 1994 as a vision of former member Kathleen Cliver. At that time six women made up
the group in three parts. Now, after four years four of the six original members return and add three additional voices.
Donna Turner, Teresa Britt, Julia Dickinson, Sonya Brown, Marcia Baxter, Angela Gantt, and Cathy Still make of the
Ensemble. They will be singing periodically in our worship.
Concerts
From time to time Hagood has hosted concerts from local singers to big name artist. This began in 1993 when Scott
brought the nationally known and dove award winning group "Truth" to Barnwell. The concert brought hundreds from
across the state and many from Georgia. Also having done concerts have been Cornerstone, The Harvesters, The
Ruppes, John Rutland, Stephen Rutland, and Don Sanders. In 2002 Hagood brought dove award nominee, Janet
Paschal. In 2003, Tony Ellenburg (song writer for Stephen Curtis Chapman and Amy Grant) came to Hagood. One of the
biggest endeavors was our 2003 Homecoming Music Event featuring over 25 musicians that reunited to usher in
Hagood's 50th birthday. This event began at 6:00pm and twenty-eight songs and 3 hours later we all knew that this
event would go down in Hagood history as one of the grandest music events.
Media Ministry
Media appears on our music page because the Music committee joined director Scott Brown in giving birth to this
concept and vision to see it implemented. This ministry is not a new idea but a new era for our church. The desire to
make the worship experience better through sound, video, lighting, and media. This will include dual screen
projections for our worshippers to see, better home and shut-in ministry videos, and improved sound. The media
concept is designed also to move all technical workers to one location area. Pray for us as we move in the direction of
making these changes that will result in a better experience.
Youth Praise Team
The Youth Praise Team is made up of Jodie Turner, Brad Williams, Chad Donnelly, Jordan Burbage, and several
vocalist. They play at every Aftershock Wednesday night Youth meeting.


