Choir Spotlight:

ALLEN PRIGGE

 

 

 

We have enjoyed getting to know this fun-loving guy for the past year and a half! Allen Prigge and his wife, Joan, joined Hill-n-Dale at Easter of 2007, and a few months later Allen joined the choir as a bass.

 

A vocational instructor at LexPro, Allen works with the mentally disabled. He also serves at Hill-n-Dale as a deacon, has played in the church basketball league, and has participated in men’s Bible study and other men’s ministry activities.

 

Allen was born in Chicago, but he grew up in Kentucky since the age of two when his family moved to Versailles.  His singing career began when he was a youth at Versailles United Methodist Church. He later went on to sing in choir at Lindsey Wilson College.

 

There aren’t many sports or activities that Allen hasn’t played or at least attempted. He went to college on a baseball scholarship. He loves to play “corn hole” and regularly challenges his fellow choir members to friendly matches – so be ready anytime there is a picnic and Allen shows up with his game set! He has also been skydiving, and has even participated in the “Polar Bear Plunge” to raise money for Special Olympics (one year it was –4º outside!).

 

Outside of sports, Allen also enjoys watching and caring for birds, bunnies, squirrels, chipmunks, or any other wildlife that makes its presence known in his backyard.

 

Allen’s passport bears stamps from England, Ireland, Wales (all from pleasure trips) and Costa Rica and Jamaica (from mission trips). He has also been part of our HND Mission Team that traveled to White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona.

 

Allen and Joan met at a church function at their previous church, and he married her five months later! They have now been married five years, and they enjoy going to the movies and entertaining guests. They own a calico cat named Callie (shown here reclining in her favorite chair).