Yesterday was the "Amazing Grace Project" where Anglican Churches across Canada were encouraged to sing the hymn and tape it for a video production to be released at a later date.
Karianne and Bryan Neff of London were part of a choir of thousands yesterday, stretching from coast to coast to coast and all singing from the same songbook.
In pews and in parking lots, in tiny parish halls and soaring cathedrals -- and in at least once instance, on an East Coast beach -- worshippers at about 2,000 Anglican churches in Canada joined voices to sing Amazing Grace as a statement of unity in trying times.
"We're doing this to support the churches in the northern parts of Canada," said Karianne Neff.
The Neffs and about 480 others stood to sing with the organ at St. James Westminster Anglican Church in Old South London.
From his pulpit, Archdeacon Ken Anderson said he could see tears in some congregants' eyes as they sang one of the most universally loved hymns of the faith.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/11/24/7512951-sun.html
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