Exciting hands-on training for Children’s Choir Workers. Experience the fun of teaching music to any age preschooler or child. Discover new ways to make choir or music time a favorite for kids! Watch the love for worship come alive! Mingle with others in similar situations! Learn to use games and toys to add more excitement to your music time! Also, a great conference for daycare workers! Features clinicians from all over the Southeast and beyond. Cost is $45.00 per person.
Clinicians
Pam Andrews
Originally from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Music has been a life-long activity for Pam Andrews. As a child she sang with her family…the Simmons Family…in small churches across Southeast Missouri and West Tennessee. She received a Bachelor of Music Education degree at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. After college, Pam was a performer at Opryland USA in Nashville working also as a commercial actress for several years, appearing in many television commercials as well as national television shows. Pam achieved her Master of Arts degree in Music Education from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Pam has taught elementary music for over 20 years in Sumner County Schools. For the last 3 years she has taught at Liberty Creek High School as the choral director and she serves as an adjunct professor at Welch College. She is also an avid songwriter of children’s Christian music. Pam has written and produced over 70 children’s choir musicals and has written over 700 songs for children working with various publishers in the Christian music field. She now has her own publishing company, Pam Andrews Music. She teaches music conferences across the United States with an emphasis on hands-on learning in music. Pam has been nominated for several Dove Awards for her children’s musicals and was Teacher of the Year and was chosen by the Grammy Foundation as Top Ten Music Teacher in the United States and Music Teacher of the Year by the Country Music Association.
Pam is married to David Andrews and they have two children, Matthew (Emily)Andrews and Leigh (Scott) Talley. She also has seven grandchildren: John, Elliot, Katherine, Olivia, Kentcie, Henry, and Meri.
Melanee’s calling to children’s choir ministry began as a junior in high school when asked to help in Preschool choir at FBC, Baton Rouge, LA. After starting as a vocal performance major, she transferred to education and graduated with a BS degree in Early Childhood education from LSU. After teaching a couple of years in both the private and public sectors,she completed graduate work at the University of Tennessee with a MS degree in Child and Family Studies.
All along the way, she continued as a choral musician by singing in church choirs and teaching in children’s choirs. Melanee served as children’s choir coordinator and First grade choir director at Forest Hills Baptist, Nashville TN for 20 years.
She currently is serving as Choristers Director at Covenant Presbyterian, Nashville and teaching the first and second grade choir of sweet refugee children through Tusculum Hills Baptist church. Melanee has also written preschool curriculum for Growing in Grace (Spring,2025).
She lives in Franklin, TN with her husband, Bob. They have been blessed to have 2 children, Lauren and Logan; now married with families of their own. So they have added Chase and Erin to their hearts as son in law and daughter in law. And they are busy as Mimi and Papa to 5 grandchildren, Micah, Noah, Judah, Lucy and Eliza.
Melanee Horton
Elizabeth Laube
Elizabeth Laube is the Marketing Coordinator for Celebrating Grace. Prior to coming to Celebrating Grace, she worked in the Center for Christian Music Studies at Baylor University administering a Lilly Endowment Inc. grant exploring the role that music in the local church plays in children’s spiritual formation. She holds a Master’s degree in Middle Years Education from the University of Georgia and Bachelor’s in Music Education from the University of South Mississippi and is a consultant for the Cambridge International Examinations music curriculum. Elizabeth taught music and general education for twelve years in the US and the UK, working with students Pre-K through High School. Currently, Elizabeth serves in the music and children’s ministry in her local church in Waco, Texas.
Sandy Stephenson is Minister to Children at Double Oak Community Church in Birmingham, Alabama where she has served for the past 20 years. Sandy has taught children’s choir and private piano lessons for over 40 years. She has been a writer and demonstrator for Lifeway’s Children’s Music Series, and has taught preschool music, music camps, and private piano for Samford University’s Academy of the Arts program. Sandy is married to Kelly Stephenson, Care Pastor for Double Oak Community Church.
Sandy Stephenson
The grandson of an evangelist, David was exposed to the ministry at an early age. He was born in Subic Bay, Philippines and began singing in a children’s choir at age 9 and found his love for Music ministry. He studied Music Education with Voice Concentration at Southern Methodist University from 1994-1998. He began teaching Elementary Music in Mesquite ISD in 1998 where he frequently writes music for Festivals and other events. He loves to combine Orff Schulwerk principles with other art forms such as Animation, Comic Books, Theater, Dance and Content creating on social media. He is currently serving at Biblical Community Church in Richardson as Elder for Worship. He is currently in partnership with Scripture Memory Songs in the Philippines composing and producing videos of key verses in the Bible in the vernacular to help saturate the Philippines with the Word of God.
David Talaguit
Doug Rogers
State Missionary Doug Rogers came to the State Board of Missions in 1999, where he serves as Director of Communications & Cooperative Program. In addition to coordinating the State Board’s overall communications efforts, he has direct responsibilities in video production and photography. He grew up in Park Avenue Baptist Church, Titusville, Fla., where he gained an early love of music through preschool and children’s choirs, then moved to First Baptist Church, Tallahassee, Fla., where he joined his first puppet team, opening a world of possibilities for outreach and ministry. It was there that he also developed a passion for media ministry, an area he has worked in for more than 35 years. Doug and his wife, Lori, are members of First Baptist Church, Montgomery. They have two daughters and a son.
Andrea Barnard has over 20 years of experience teaching music and a passion to see her students succeed. She holds degrees in vocal performance and education and has worked with preschool and elementary choirs, in both school and church settings. She believes that the energy children bring to music is contagious! Catch the joy in her sessions by gaining practical tips, crafts, and games to unlock the hidden potential in your preschool choirs.
