First Presbyterian Church - Alexander City

01/07/2026

First Presbyterian Church is seeking an organist or pianist.

Job Title: Pianist/Organist

First Presbyterian Church, Alexander City, AL

Job Type: 4-6 hours per week, part-time employee, under the supervision of the Director of Music.

Our Goal: First Presbyterian – Alexander City is endeavoring to hire a pianist or organist for our weekly traditional worship service.

Who We Are: First Presbyterian is a church vibrant in fellowship, outreach, and music while growing deep and wide in faith. The church has a Yamaha Grand Piano and a 2 manual, 33 stop Allen Digital Organ (purchased in 2016).

Job Summary: First Presbyterian Church – Alexander City seeks a passionate, hard-working, dedicated person to serve as our accompanist. Responsibilities for this part-time position include providing accompaniment for our choir and congregation as well as voluntaries during services. Music is one of the hallmarks of our congregation and we support efforts to continually grow this ministry. Music is a tool for leading people to Christ, for strengthening our faith, for helping persons experience true worship, and for glorifying God.

Primary Responsibilities:
*During services. accompany the choir anthems and congregational hymns and responses, and play voluntaries for preludes, offertories, postludes, and during communion distribution.
*Accompany the adult choir in their rehearsals on Sunday mornings at 8:30 AM and before the morning worship service
*Rehearse with and accompany soloists and instrumentalists, as needed.
*Provide music for funerals and weddings as requested by the Pastor.
*Accompany special musical events, including our annual Summer Concert
*Choose music for each service that is appropriate for the lectionary readings for each Sunday, and the liturgical season.

Qualifications Include:
A high level of musical talent, proficiency, education, and experience playing the piano in liturgical services is required. Proficiency playing the piano and good sight-reading skills are required. Organ experience or willingness to learn the organ is a plus.

Letters of Interest and Resume should be sent to:

Robert Lamborne, Director of Music
First Presbyterian Church of Alexander City
PO Box 96
Alexander City, AL 35011
-or-
[email protected]

12/22/2025

Please join us for our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - Wednesday, December 24th at 6:00 PM. It's always very moving as we circle the sanctuary to sing "Silent Night" by candlelight.

08/01/2025

Tomorrow, August 2nd at 5:00 PM. The First Presbyterian Church Choir Summer Concert, with guest artist, Brink Norton from Charleston, SC. We will be featuring Broadway classics and traditional sacred music. Best of all - it’s FREE!

07/26/2025

One week from today, The First Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir goes Back To Broadway with guest artist Brink Norton returning. Saturday, August 2nd at 5:00 PM. We’ll leave the AC on for you!

07/23/2025

Yay !!!!!!please,come!!!!

Don't forget - Saturday, August 2nd at 5:00 PM. The First Presbyterian Church Chance Choir and Friends will present their annual Summer Concert. As the marquee says, this year we will be Back To Broadway and well as some beautiful sacred music.
Once again, former Alexander City resident, Mr. Brink Norton will be our guest artist.
We are located at 371 Jefferson Street in Alexander City. Admission is FREE!!

07/22/2025

Don't forget - Saturday, August 2nd at 5:00 PM. The First Presbyterian Church Chance Choir and Friends will present their annual Summer Concert. As the marquee says, this year we will be Back To Broadway and well as some beautiful sacred music.
Once again, former Alexander City resident, Mr. Brink Norton will be our guest artist.
We are located at 371 Jefferson Street in Alexander City. Admission is FREE!!

07/14/2025

You won't see this very often....
A FREE Concert.
Saturday, August 2nd at 5:00 PM at The First Presbyterian Church of Alexander City.

07/08/2025

Most Christian worship services don’t just have one sermon—they have three, four, five, or even six. Here’s what I mean: it’s not just the pastor’s message that preaches. The hymns and songs we sing together as a congregation are also proclaiming the Word of God.

Each hymn is a miniature musical sermon. As we sing, we’re not just expressing emotion or filling space in the service—we are declaring God’s Word to one another. Theology sings!

That’s why the songs we sing matter. They express and shape our theology, form our faith, and encourage our hearts. They’re not just warm-up or background—they are worship and proclamation.

Paul emphasizes this in his letters, urging the church to sing “psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” to one another (e.g., Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:19), letting the Word of Christ dwell richly among us.

This isn’t just a New Testament idea. Not only do we have the 150 psalms in the Old Testament, God commanded Moses to teach Israel a song. We know it as the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32, which we read today in Bible in One Year.

God intended that song to be a witness to his people. It was, in that case, largely a warning, but still a proclamation of the Word through singing—meant to be remembered and passed on through the generations.

So when you gather next time with the body of Christ and lift your voice in song, remember this: you’re not only worshiping God—you’re preaching to your neighbor. And as the person next to you sings, they’re preaching to you too.

The Word is going forth in melody, in harmony, in truth.