Your mother, though she doesn't know it, softened my non-member mother's heart about the church. She and I had many tough years where she did not want to hear what I had to say or listen to my testimony. Our grandson one day left his primary song book at her house where, we found out, he had sung her numerous songs from the book while staying there with her. One night my phone rang and it was mom...and she opened the conversation with "Who is Janice Kapp Perry?" I asked why she asked that and I told her she was a songwriter in our church...mostly children's songs...and she told me about Jonathan leaving his songbook at her house and she ended with, "She wrote some of the most beautiful songs about the Savior that I have ever heard." Mom never joined the church before her death, but she became our staunchest defenders about our being Christian. She had a lady visit her church who went on an anti-LDS tirade and my mother told me about telling her how wrong she was....and she told the lady about the songs of Janice Kapp Perry that they sing and teach their children. I love your mom! One of my fondest memories was a Time Out for Women when we got to hear her speak and then we all sang HER songs with HER leading us....we were all weeping!! Thanks for a great article about Saint Janice...
Emily ThompsonMay 22, 2015
I have a very big soft space for Janice Perry music. She came onto the scene at roughly the same time I did...as a young woman. Her music was my refuge, my go-to at many times, as I fought my way through my teenage years. I bought many of her "tapes" as they came out, and I still own many of them. As I found myself a single mom in my late 30's, once again "coming out" into a scene not to dissimilar to my teenage years, her music became my refuge once again, and I bought a few CD's to replace my favorites. "The Light Within", particularly, helped remind me of my divinity as a woman, just as it had assured me of it when I was a teenage girl. I listened to it many times over in my car, particularly as I was driving to singles events! Tell your mom thank you for her example and service. I loved reading your tribute to her. It was lovely, and she is an amazing woman! I'm so glad she passed on her love of good music to you, because I can't imagine Sunday's without your program on the radio!
Ron and Melanie StokerMay 21, 2015
We have always enjoyed the songs that Sister Perry has written but it has been wonderful for us to get to know her personally. Janice is a warm and witty person with a gift to love everyone. She is a treasure to the whole church! Thank you St. Janice!
Bryant AustinMay 21, 2015
I think you can safely say that "This is one of the lessons I most hope has rubbed off on me—that our gifts are to bless, not to impress, and that the numbers blessed are not nearly as important as sharing what we have been given." I have watched and know that is who you are.
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Cynthia AbbottMay 24, 2015
Your mother, though she doesn't know it, softened my non-member mother's heart about the church. She and I had many tough years where she did not want to hear what I had to say or listen to my testimony. Our grandson one day left his primary song book at her house where, we found out, he had sung her numerous songs from the book while staying there with her. One night my phone rang and it was mom...and she opened the conversation with "Who is Janice Kapp Perry?" I asked why she asked that and I told her she was a songwriter in our church...mostly children's songs...and she told me about Jonathan leaving his songbook at her house and she ended with, "She wrote some of the most beautiful songs about the Savior that I have ever heard." Mom never joined the church before her death, but she became our staunchest defenders about our being Christian. She had a lady visit her church who went on an anti-LDS tirade and my mother told me about telling her how wrong she was....and she told the lady about the songs of Janice Kapp Perry that they sing and teach their children. I love your mom! One of my fondest memories was a Time Out for Women when we got to hear her speak and then we all sang HER songs with HER leading us....we were all weeping!! Thanks for a great article about Saint Janice...
Emily ThompsonMay 22, 2015
I have a very big soft space for Janice Perry music. She came onto the scene at roughly the same time I did...as a young woman. Her music was my refuge, my go-to at many times, as I fought my way through my teenage years. I bought many of her "tapes" as they came out, and I still own many of them. As I found myself a single mom in my late 30's, once again "coming out" into a scene not to dissimilar to my teenage years, her music became my refuge once again, and I bought a few CD's to replace my favorites. "The Light Within", particularly, helped remind me of my divinity as a woman, just as it had assured me of it when I was a teenage girl. I listened to it many times over in my car, particularly as I was driving to singles events! Tell your mom thank you for her example and service. I loved reading your tribute to her. It was lovely, and she is an amazing woman! I'm so glad she passed on her love of good music to you, because I can't imagine Sunday's without your program on the radio!
Ron and Melanie StokerMay 21, 2015
We have always enjoyed the songs that Sister Perry has written but it has been wonderful for us to get to know her personally. Janice is a warm and witty person with a gift to love everyone. She is a treasure to the whole church! Thank you St. Janice!
Bryant AustinMay 21, 2015
I think you can safely say that "This is one of the lessons I most hope has rubbed off on me—that our gifts are to bless, not to impress, and that the numbers blessed are not nearly as important as sharing what we have been given." I have watched and know that is who you are.
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