The Community Church provides extraordinary, quality music each Sunday in a variety of forms—blues, jazz, bluegrass, folk, rock, and classical. One week we may feature a Chicago-based trio while the next week our church “Dancing Bohemian Ukulele Team” will provide music. What remains consistent each week is high quality music that inspires. Music Minister Ken Hall's strong reputation for musical excellence continues to attract top rated musicians. The Community Church has been a Sunday morning home to such musicians as: Don Stiernberg, Steve Rashid, Alejo Poveda, David Hawkins, Soul Message Band, Nic Barnum, Ally Ahern, Terry Moran, Fred Koch, Elliott Delman, Christina Trulio, Suede, Bobby Newman and Rokko Jans, to name but a few. 

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The Bells of Ávila

The afternoon sun
Flooding the street
But you don’t belong there
Where the street people meet
A house and family
Is no kind of life
Teresa don’t wanna be
Nobody’s wife

So up on a hill
You follow your prayer
To live with your sisters
Cloistered up there
And you cherish the scars
With each breath that you draw
Under the stars of Ávila

Allá en el fuego eterno
The endless inferno
Of frescoes that bear no
Resemblance to works of Madonna and Child
The Pope just ignores you; he thinks that you’re wild
So you take off your shoes and you walk all the miles
That only a saint could endure

A warrior of innocence
Right from the start
Siempre Teresa here in my heart

Everyone dies, but does everyone suffer?
Your faith made you strong
But your life made you tougher.

It’s a tale that I tell
With each breath I draw
For I still hear the bells of Ávila
Still under the spell of Ávila
I still hear the bells… of Ávila

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