The 30-member Jerusalem Singers concluded its 30th anniversary concerts July 29 at its home base, Jerusalem Western Salisbury Church, 3441 Devonshire Road, Salisbury Township.

The approximate one-hour concert included nine works, each sung without music accompaniment, including three pieces composed by Pete Deshler, Jerusalem Singers director and founder: “Lord, Make Us Instruments,” “I Have Had Singing” and “Pax e concordia” (“Peace from Harmony”).

“Pax” has lyrics from Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. “Each of these three religions have the one thing in common: peace,” said Deshler.

“Music Alone Shall Live” was sung as a round with audience participation. When choir members sang from the church aisles, nearly surrounding the audience, the effect was uplifting in the intimate sanctuary of the 1819 stone church.

The program included “Cantate Domino,” Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni; “Turn the World Around,” Harry Belafonte, Robert Freedman; arranged, Robert DeCormier (with Jerusalem Singers’ Joshua Fink on tambourine drum); “I Hear a Voice A-Prayin,’” Houston Bright; “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah,” arranged, Bradley Ellingboe, and “We Are,” Bob Chilcott, a setting of the Maya Angelou (1928-2014) “Human Family” poem, concluding, “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

Jerusalem Singers presented the program, July 20, St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fogelsville, and July 27, United Fellowship Lutheran Church, Easton.

At the Jerusalem Western Salisbury concert, Deshler was presented with an anniversary gift of an iPod holder by Dustin Hartman, Jerusalem Singers assistant director.

Jerusalem Singers, open to age 15 or older regardless of experience, perform May to August and rehearse 7 p.m. Mondays, Jerusalem Western Salisbury Church.

Information: https://jerusalemsingers.com/; thejerusalemsingers@gmail.com; 610-657-282