Testimony
for SATB Chorus and Piano
Testimony
I Am a Child of God/I Believe in Christ
for SATB Chorus and Piano
Performance time 3:13 | 26,033 views | 3744 downloads | 10 comments
This arrangement combines the fundamental ideas from two foundational hymns into a short medley (and even, in the last verse, a “mash up”). The choir parts are almost entirely unison and the accompaniment is fairly straightforward. I first tackled this setting when serving as a full-time missionary in Scotland and it has since endured many rewrites and revisions. In the end, the simplest setting proved best.
I Am a Child of God | Text: Naomi Ward Randall, 1908–2001. © 1957 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. | Music: Mildred Tanner Pettit, 1895–1977. © 1957 Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
I Believe in Christ | Text: Bruce R. McConkie, 1915–1985. © 1972 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. | Music: John Longhurst, b. 1940. © 1985 Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
Arrangement © 2001, 2016 Steven Smith.
I Am a Child of God | Text: Naomi Ward Randall, 1908–2001. © 1957 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. | Music: Mildred Tanner Pettit, 1895–1977. © 1957 Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
I Believe in Christ | Text: Bruce R. McConkie, 1915–1985. © 1972 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. | Music: John Longhurst, b. 1940. © 1985 Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
Arrangement © 2001, 2016 Steven Smith.
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I am so happy to see that Soundsmith Music is back! I used your music frequently when I was a ward choir director a few years ago and I always loved your beautiful arrangements. Thank you for sharing your gifts with all of us. I will be sharing your website with my current ward choir director for sure!
Thanks, Claire! I really appreciate your kind words and support. I hope to have some new things for your ward choir soon!
I love this arrangement of Testimony! Any Ward Choir could do it with 1 or 2 weeks practice but it is soooo powerful when both songs are sung together. You are very talented/gifted Steven. Thank you for making this available. I is simple, sweet and powerfully spiritual.
Thank you so much! I’m very glad that it helped invite the spirit to your meetings. Good luck with your choir!
Thank you for this lovely arrangement! Is there any way to download the mp3 of this song (Testimony)? I was hoping to have our girls sing it at girls camp, yet there is no piano up at the campsite.
You bet. Here’s a direct link:
https://soundsmithmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2016/08/Testimony-2015.mp3
Good luck at girls camp!
Our ward choir sang this piece, and it was beautiful! I brought in some primary children to sing it with the choir since they know I Am a Child of God so well, and their voices added such a sweetness to it. Thank you so much for putting this arrangement together and sharing your talent…it has helped me so much as a first time choir director!
You’re so welcome! I’m very glad that it worked for your choir and happy to hear your feedback. Thanks for taking time! I hope all is STILL going well with the ward choir.
We sang this for Stake Conference yesterday and it turned out beautifully. Since our stake is about half English speaking wards, and half Spanish speaking wards, I used the Spanish lyrics for the I Am a Child of God part, and left the I Believe In Christ part in English. Because of Covid, we only got to have one rehearsal, but this arrangement was easy to pull together in a short time without being boring. It was so impactful. Thank you for sharing such a lovely arrangement.
Is there any other way to download this without having WinZip? Do you have a downloadable PDF? Thanks!