SING SANKEY

Clive Jeanes of Bridport Rotary Club organised the first Sing Sankey which took place at the United Church on Saturday 28th November 2009. 

The evening was introduced by David Taylor and the programme was led by David Symes, the bandmaster of the Weymouth Salvation Army Citadel Band.   

The event was sponsored by local businesses.

The Charitable event raised around £1100 and this is to be distributed as follows: 40% Julia's House, 40% Chancery House and 20% to our Rotary Charities.

The next Sing Sankey will be on Saturday 27th November 2010 at the United Church, East Street, Bridport.

Sankey

Ira David Sankey was an American gospel singerand composer, born 1840. As a young man he served in the Civil War as a soldier for the Union. After the war he worked for the Inland Revenue Srevice and the YMCA. He married in 1863 and had three sons.
It was at a YMCA convention in 1870 that he met evangelist Dwight L. Moody and shortly after attended his first evangelistic meeting with him.
In 1873 they made their first visit to the UK. While in Edingburgh they raised £10,000 to build a new home for the Carrubbers Close Mission, which still stands, and is used for its original purpose on the Royal Mile.
Sankey wrote many hymns and songs and arranged music for many more, and his collection of Sacred Songs and Solos is still in use.
He was blind from glaucoma for the last five years of his life. He died in 1908.