DES MOINES, Iowa — The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is accustomed to touching hearts by the thousands, but it was an audience of dozens that touched their hearts Monday morning.

While in Des Moines for a concert Monday evening, 95 members of the choir formed into two groups and performed at local residential care centers as a service project.

Wickie Dawe, social coordinator at Wesley Acres, said that in the 15 years she has worked there this was the first time she had seen residents arrive an hour early for a program.

The choir's visit was much anticipated, the Rev. C. Rendy Garrett, chaplain at the senior health center, told the Church News. He said that he is a retired Methodist minister who has loved listening to choir recordings for many years. "This is the kind of music people need to hear," he said. "It brightens everybody's day."

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