GROVER FALLS, MO — A retirement tribute for Delores Ashcraft, 71, who served as pianist at Calvary Bible Church for 32 years, was briefly disrupted Sunday when a projected spreadsheet revealed that her entire prelude repertoire consisted of eleven songs cycled in a documented rotation since 1994.

The spreadsheet, intended only for Delores’s personal records and accidentally included in the tribute slideshow by volunteer technician Marcus Fry, 19, showed color-coded tabs organized by liturgical season with each song’s placement tracked to the week. Congregants sat in silence for approximately four seconds before applauding.

“I always thought ‘Great Is Thy Faithfulness’ felt especially meaningful on the third Sunday of the month,” said longtime member Carolyn Vance, 63. “Now I know it was always the third Sunday of the month. I think I’m fine with that.”

“Eleven songs is enough. The Lord made the world in six days and rested on the seventh. I simply applied the principle.” — Delores Ashcraft, 71

Pastor Glenn Toews, 54, acknowledged from the pulpit that he had personally never noticed, adding that he used the prelude time to review his sermon notes and had assumed the piano “just kind of happened.”

Church records confirm Delores was paid $40 per Sunday for the duration of her tenure, totaling approximately $66,560 over three decades, a figure deacon board chair Roy Halsted, 67, described as “extremely fair given the material.”

At press time, the search committee formed to find Delores’s replacement had been given her spreadsheet and asked if they could just continue using it.