Follow the Pipes

Tim Degen • July 7, 2025

You are invited!

Each year, the Fort Wayne Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, in partnership with the Fort

Wayne Historical Society, presents Follow the Pipes. Follow the Pipes is a series of short 30-minute

organ recitals over a span of 3 days at various churches and venues around Fort Wayne that give

interested audience members the opportunity to hear several different recitals in a single day.


St. Peter’s is participating in Follow the Pipes this year, as our own Tim Degen will present a 30-minute

organ recital next Tuesday, July 15, from 2:00-2:30pm! Everyone is invited to attend. Tim will perform

works by Bach, Handel, Widor, Manz, & Albinoni.


Here is the schedule of Follow the Pipes. All recitals are free and open to the public.


Tuesday, July 15

  • 1:00pm – St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church
    Organist: Tim Robison
  • 2:00pm – St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
    Organist: Tim Degen


Wednesday, July 16

  • 1:00pm – Plymouth Congregational Church
    Organist: Robert Nance
  • 2:00pm – First Presbyterian Church
    Organist: Kathy Miller
  • 3:00pm – Trinity Episcopal Church
    Organist: Noah Vancina


Thursday, July 17

  • 7:00pm – Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
    Organist: Michael Dulac
  • 8:00pm – Embassy Theatre
    Organist: Cletus Goens

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I want to share a story, actually several stories. I remember when I was young in Tulsa, Oklahoma and in Fredericktown, Missouri, of going up to the altar rail with my parents and receiving a blessing from my pastor. I remember sticking my head in between the posts on the altar rail and the pastor giving me a blessing. I don't exactly remember the words, but I knew it was important and I wanted that blessing. I remember in confirmation learning about what the pastor was actually saying, what those words actually meant. To understand what God was saying in his scriptures and growing in it. Overall, just being absolutely amazed at what my pastors, Pastor Sean and Pastor Beering were teaching me and knowing God better and just the joyfulness of it. And I remember Lyndi going through confirmation, adult confirmation, with Pastor Schueler in Rosenberg, Texas, and then seeing from her eyes what it meant to be Lutheran, to understand the faith. I had grown up in the Lutheran church, so it was all ordinary for me, but for her it was extraordinary to know and to understand and have that time with a pastor. And I'm so thankful for the pastors in my life and all of the other church workers that have been a part of my life who have helped me to understand who God is. I mentioned in this weekend’s sermon that there's an initiative, a program through the LCMS called Set Apart to Serve. It points out that we have a lack of pastors, teachers, and other church workers. Set Apart to Serve reminds us that the Lord asks us to pray for laborers for the harvest, and I encourage you to pray for laborers for the harvest. To pray for those that teach us who God is and to help us to understand how much we need him. If you happen to know some young people considering church work or being pastors, pray for them, encourage them. God has gifted them to us to answer our questions. Pray fervently that the Lord would send workers into his harvest so that we know him. Keep that in your prayers. I encourage you to look for people who would be good to take God's calling into his church. May the Lord provide workers for His harvest that we may know God and how richly He blesses us. Amen.
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