Cande has served on California State and Associational Vacation Bible School training teams; served California Baptist University as a trustee for several years; currently serves on the Sacramento Association Executive Board; and now sings on the Worship Team at First Baptist, Orangeville.  She has been Vacation Bible School Director for a number of years and is just now kicking off a Wednesday evening children’s activity.  In addition, she is active with her church’s senior choir and fellowship group.

Having retired from a 35-year law enforcement career in Sacramento, Cande has also been a member of the Board of Directors for the International Association of Women Police (IAWP) for twelve years and continues to travel the world over for that organization’s conferences and board meetings.  Cande sang for two years with the Sacramento Symphony Chorus, now the Sacramento Choral Society.

She enjoys spending time with extended family (especially the granddaughters), traveling with Richard in the motor home, working in her flowers, card making, and scrap booking.   She is known for her infectious smile and positive attitude, as well as a lovely singing voice.

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Bettye (BJ) Anthony sings first soprano with the California Singing Church Women.  She started participating many years ago and has now sung with our new group since we restarted three years ago.  She lives in Sacramento and has two married adult children and two grandsons.  

Lulyn Godfrey sings soprano with the California Singing Church Women (CSCW) and has been in the group since its new start nearly three years ago.

She was born and raised in San Bernardino and has attended Immanuel Baptist church for fifty years.  She sang with the Pacific High School ensemble, as well as the Redeemed and Rejoicing ensemble of Immanuel, and with other select ensembles from elementary through college.  She has been a soloist with those groups, had leads in school and church musicals and dramas, and is a soloist with the CSCW.  Lulyn is also known for her caring spirit and quick wit.

Having earned her BA in Communicative Disorders from University of Redlands in 1980, Lulyn is currently Administrative Assistant to the Board of Trustees, Scrip Coordinator, and Aumni Coordinator at Arrowhead Christian Academy in Redlands.  She has worked in Christian education for the past twenty years.

Lulyn is married to Rich Godfrey and is currently living in Yucapa.  She and Rich have two adult children: Rachel and Joshua.

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Sandi Stark, who sings soprano with the California Singing Church Women is married to Mitch Stark, a professional singer/performer.  The Starks have two children, ages 15 and 12, three stepdaughters, and two grandchildren.  Sandi has been a theater actress for more than 25 years, having performed with Junior University for four years, and was last seen as the Wicked Witch of the West in the Redlands Bowl production of The Wizard of OZ.  Mitch played the part of the Tin Man in that same show.

Having performed in San Bernardino with San Gorgonio High School Concert Choir and the Summit, a select show choir, Sandi sings with the ensemble team, worship team, along with Mitch, and performs with the drama team at Pathway Church in Redlands.  She is an award winning theater director and playwright, owns her own photography business. and specializes in headshots for theater and commercial work.  She is working on opening a second business that will offer private acting classes for women.

Sandi loves everything Victorian, memorabilia from the 30’s and 40’s, and her Chihuahua, named Cary Grant. 

You would love getting to know Sandi and the many other talented singers in California Singing Church Women.  Come join us!



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Rhonda Boggs, the newest addition to California Singing Church Women,  is a graduate of California Baptist University in Riverside, California with a Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Science in 1982, and a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology in 1984.  She also graduated from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Christian Education in 1995 and a Doctor of Ministry degree in 2000.  Rhonda served as a Christian Licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor for sixteen years in the Inland Empire before moving into the area of Christian education at the local church level.   Rhonda has served as the Director of College/Career ministries from 1996-2000 and the Interim Director of Children’s ministries from 1998-1999 at Immanuel Baptist in Highland.  Rhonda has also served as the Director of Single Adult Ministries from 1998-2005 and she is currently Director of Global Outreach at Immanuel Baptist Church in Highland, California.

In addition, she has served as vice-chair on an accreditation committee for Golden Gate Seminary, several Associational committees, as staff leadership for Associational youth and children’s camps, as Vice-President and President of the Western Baptist Religious Education Association, and Vice Moderator of Inland Empire Southern Baptist Association Executive Board.

Rhonda has taught numerous conferences, seminars and retreats throughout the west, in addition to being adjunct faculty at California Baptist University and Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, and Rockbridge Seminary.

Just to let you know, you don’t have to have all of the qualifications and experience that Rhonda has.  Just her warm and friendly spirit and desire to serve and praise the Lord would have been enough.  We’re happy that she joined us!

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Renee Beers-Schmidt sings second soprano with California Singing Church Women and is one of the newest members.  She lives in South Sacramento. Originally from Indonesia, Renee is of Dutch nationality, was educated in the Netherlands, and immigrated here with her late husband, Al, in 1956.  They had been married for 43 years, had five children and eleven grandchildren.  After Al died in 1999, Renee remarried, and that husband, Hank, died five months after they married.

Renee has an interesting and colorful history.  During the Second
World War, her dad was a prisoner of war, and she was forbidden
to go to school.  She went to a Protestant church by herself in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she came to know the Lord, sang in the children’s choir, and always played the part of the angel Gabriel in the Christmas story.  She went to the Catholic church for a while, loved the Gregorian chants, and became a cantor and a liturgical dancer.  She often led the congregational singing with her guitar.  She is always involved in some kind of music, whether it is singing or playing guitar or the Q-chord, a digital autoharp that can make over 100 instrumental sounds.  Renee sings with Sweet Adelines and ladies’ and mixed quartets.  She loves it all.  Her daughters are following in her footsteps.

Renee’s daughter, Vicentia, married in the Baptist church and had no car, so Renee drove them to church.  This made her late for her own services, so she started going to church with them.  She was eventually baptized there.

Having taught about 50 different classes in needlework, arts, and crafts in the past twenty years, Renee still has a garage full of goodies!  Besides singing, her favorite activities are sewing and thriftstore browsing.

With her wonderful background in music, sense of humor and big
brown eyes, Renee is a delightful addition to California Singing Church Women!

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Marilyn Crabtree had sung with the California Singing Church Women on one occasion before its new beginning last year.  She sings alto with the group and serves as Secretary-Treasurer.

Born and raised in Ventura, California, Marilyn was saved on Christmas night when she was nine years old.  She began singing in church choir as a teenager and played piano for the children’s and the youth departments.  She attended California Baptist College (now CBU), took one year of organ, sang in the choir and in Les Chanteuses under the direction of Helen Walker.  It was there that she met Walt. They married in the summer of their junior year and both graduated in 1962. They have three children, ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild.  Marilyn served as church secretary for Trinity So. Baptist Church, Fresno for 23 years.  Her husband served several churches in California in music and education and worked with the CSBC.  Marilyn was a state-approved preschool worker and taught preschoolers in Sunday School for 36 years.

She is actively involved in CBU Alumni Association. She has special memories of the missionaries her parents invited to their home when she was a child, and continues to have a deep passion for missions.  She serves as chairman of Warren-Brown Mission House, a missionary residence in Pioneer for missionaries on stateside assignment.  She corresponds regularly with missionaries and schedules them at the mission house. 

Walt and Marilyn retired in 1997 and moved to a mountain home in Pioneer.  They are members of Sierra Baptist Church, where Marilyn serves as Missions Offering Emphasis Leader and organist.   The Crabtrees love traveling in their motorhome and serve with California Campers on Mission.

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Barbara Fox accompanies for the California Singing Church Women—particularly those who rehearse in the northern part of the state.  She’s the greatest!

Barbara was born in Hollywood, California and attended Hollywood High School.  She also attended LeConte Jr. High, where she says she developed most of her accompanying skills while playing for Mae Nightingale and her Troubadors.  She was the only girl amid 50-60 boys. Barbara graduated from UCLA with a major in physical education and a minor in music.

While attending the Hollywood Bowl, Barbara met her husband, Tom.  Their mutual love for great music and performers drew them together, beside the fact that Tom needed an accompanist!  Barbara feels that God’s sense of humor was revealed in the fact that he put UCLA and USC grads together.  In addition, she was a P.E. major, and Tom flunked P.E. in college ( because as a college freshman, he forgot to drop a P.E. class!).

Barbara and Tom have been involved in the church music ministry for many years, having served churches in Pasadena, LaCrescenta, Los Gatos, and Sacramento.  Tom was bi-vocational, teaching public school music, as well as being involved in the music ministry.

The Foxes have had many rich life experiences, including this one that Barb relates: “We were living in Northern California when our 18 month old daughter was diagnosed with diabetes, and we had to make a quick move to Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.  Doctors in Northern California didn’t know how to care for a baby that young.  We hardly had time to say goodbye to Yreka friends, and Tom had to leave his teaching position.  Well, a music teacher “decided” to retire 8 weeks into the fall semester.  Tom stepped right into that position and was even given the authority to interview and hire his replacement.  Unusual and miraculous!”

Tom’s mother was Dale Evans, and the family celebrates that heritage.  Their three daughters sing the music that Roy Rogers and Dale Evans made popular.  Is it any wonder that Barbara sometimes rides her stick horse, Trigger, into rehearsal?

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California Singing Churchwomen.  
      This premiere ladies chorus is pleased to announce a new director, Barbara Noakes, and they are now beginning to gather and sing again.

The California Singing Churchwomen (CSCW)is an organization of the Worship Office and Healthy Church Group of the California Southern Baptist Convention. CSCW was organized in November, 1981, at the Church Music Conference which was held in Pacific Grove, CA, that year.





Barbara Noakes

The objective and purpose of CSCW is to encourage personal & professional improvement, Christian Fellowship, ministry and spiritual growth among California Southern Baptist musicians and educators, and to promote and coordinate great music to advance the gospel.

Membership is open to women who are members of a Southern Baptist Church and are approved by their worship leader to join the CSCW.

Please Click Here  to download and print the application.
Return your application by mail with your membership fee to: 
      CSBC 
      c/o Worship Office, MRC
      678 E Shaw Avenue 
      Fresno CA 93710


CSCW at the 2007 CSBC Annual Meeting