Ebates Challenge from the St. Louis Church Concert Series

With this post, I send a challenge to all readers. Ebates is a free service that offers cashbach shopping for online purchases that you already make. Many mainstream online retailers have partnered with Ebates as means of furthering their advertising.

How does it work?
After you sign up for a free account, simply visit the Ebates website before making online purchases in order to click through to your choice of over 1500 retailers. Each retailer offers a percentage back for each purchase.

Why is this information on a Music Ministry blog?
If 100 people click through this blog entry and sign up for Ebates between now and March 31, 2012, the St. Louis Church Concert Series will receive $1000 from Ebates.

Is there a confusing part?
To clarify: by signing up by clicking on the link below, a new Ebates customer is helping the St. Louis Church Concert Series by becoming a referred member. That's where the Concert Series benefit ends. All rebates offered by merchants for purchases are paid directly to the Ebates member. Of course, if you choose to donate those rebates to the St. Louis Church Concert Series, that would be encouraged as well!

The Ebates Link for Sign-up.
http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=C2TwQCXxexpFV251kkFXEA%3D%3D

Action-Packed Weekend Recap

Today I write after an action-packed weekend at St. Louis. It began with a wonderful showing from the ever-growing and ever-advancing St. Louis Children's Choir under the direction of Theresa Suhar. The Children's Choir sings a variety of music - both old and new from chant to modern music.

**The St. Louis Children's Choir is comprised of students in grades 2-8 from throughout the parish. The choir usually sings at the 4:00pm Mass on the first Saturday of the month. New members are always welcome. Please contact me for more information.**

Yesterday afternoon, the latest concert of the St. Louis Church Concert Series was entitled A Little Afternoon Music. It featured musicians from near and far. First, Italian organist Ennio Cominetti traveled to St. Louis from Varenna, Italy as he began his US tour. In addition, the Lenore Trio represents local musicians, Larissa Sanders, the Associate Organist at St. Louis, with Eddie Sanders, a Washington based bassoonist, and Denis Karp, a Baltimore based flutist. A great thank you goes out to everyone who took the time to help in the preparation such a great afternoon for a good-sized and very appreciative audience.