Laura Biggs, from Keyser, West Virginia, will present a mini-concert during the “One More Night; Old Country Church Gathering” on Friday evening, October 28 at 7:00 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Parsons. Laura attributes her spectacular ability to play the piano to God, in answer to a prayer.
Laura’s story is interesting. She grew up in Carrollton, Ohio, a small town in a farming community. Her mother, who adopted Laura when she was young, desperately wanted her to learn to play the piano and lessons were started when Laura was twelve. In Laura’s words, “I couldn’t learn to play, and, furthermore, I hated it.” After one and a half years of torture, her teacher told her disappointed mother to “save her money” and the lessons were ended.
It was during a revival at a Pentecostal Assemblies of God church that the preacher’s wife, who could play the piano, told Laura’s mom that she had a revelation that Laura, too, would play the piano. Laura remembers that the year was 1966 and she was a senior in high school.
Soon afterwards, one rainy Saturday afternoon, Laura was playing an LP record titled “How Big is God.” Listening to that record, Laura made a deal with God—“If you will show me how to play the piano without notes, I will always play for you.” As Laura succinctly puts it, “He Did and I Do!”
Laura first knew that her prayer was answered when she began to hear music in her head and could sit down at the piano and play what she was hearing. And, the music that she found herself suddenly able to play was, and is now, not ordinary—it is amazing and accomplished. As Pastor Mike Lantz at St. Paul’s remarked after hearing her play at a recent church gathering, “She belongs on a concert stage!” All who hear her would agree.
Laura played piano for several years at Bloomington United Methodist Church. She is now a United Methodist Layspeaker and attends church at Rees Chapel UMC in New Creek. Concerning her music, she gives God the glory for her outstanding gift and tries to follow His lead. Laura strongly emphasizes that “I couldn’t do it without the anointing power of God!”
