June 2022

Dear siblings in Christ,

During the summer months, worship leaders often plan for fall and the next liturgical year. As part of this looking ahead, there can also be an intentional looking back to what has nurtured and shaped your congregation’s worship in the past months. What have you noticed that has worked well? What did you try that didn’t work out as you had expected? What do you look forward to exploring in the months ahead?

Many ELCA congregations have been using All Creation Sings, the worship supplement to Evangelical Lutheran Worship released in November 2020. We’d love to hear from you, especially as we use the ELCA Worship Blog as one way to share ideas and information about ACS.

If you have been using ACS in your worshiping community, what liturgical content has been useful and meaningful? Are there new hymns/songs that have been especially well-received? Have the services of lament been one way to express the pain of the world in these past months? Do you have other discoveries or unexpected stories to share?

We look forward to hearing from you.

In peace,
Deacon Jennifer Baker-Trinity
Program Manager, Worship Resource Development

Prompts for Prayers of Intercession

As events in the world unfold, you may want assistance in contextualizing the prayers of intercession. ELCA Worship provides “Prompts for Prayers of Intercession” each Wednesday on its Worship Blog and linked on its Facebook page. For additional resources for crafting intercessions, visit this annotated list.

All Creation Sings

The All Creation Sings family of resources is available for purchase from Augsburg Fortress. This includes the Pew Edition, Leaders Edition and Accompaniment Edition. New and now available is the volume Indexes to Evangelical Lutheran Worship and All Creation Sings. This revised edition of Indexes to Evangelical Lutheran Worship has been expanded and supplemented with new material from All Creation Sings.

You can learn more about All Creation Sings at its webpage, now with user-friendly filtering capabilities that enable you to more easily access informative articles, teaching videos and webinar recordings. Downloadable introductory materials and image files are also available, as are links to all ACS-related products.

Spanish resources available at Sundays and Seasons

All Creation Sings includes a fully bilingual setting of Holy Communion (Setting 11/Liturgia 11). To support use of this liturgy as well as Evangelical Lutheran Worship Setting Seven: Santa Comunión, Sundays and Seasons now provides many more hymns and songs in Spanish. In addition to the Spanish and bilingual hymns available in All Creation Sings and Evangelical Lutheran Worship, most hymns from Libro de Liturgia y Cántico are available for download to Deluxe subscribers. Service music (#181-274) is available to both Standard and Deluxe subscribers.

Resources and Events

"From Generation to Generation”
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind.
July 18-21

Sponsored by the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians in connection with the 2022 Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival, the conference “From Generation to Generation” features such musicians as the Calmus Ensemble, the Cantus Vocal Ensemble, and Martin Jean. There is still time to register for the full conference. Daily registration will be available on-site. For more information contact the ALCM office via email or call 800-624-2526.

Lutheran Summer Music Academy
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind.
June 26–July 24

Students and faculty of the Lutheran Summer Music Academy cannot wait to discover talents, confidence, leadership, and self-worth in the context of a caring community. All are invited to join the celebration, either in person or online, for recitals, concerts and worship services. Click here to find important information including an events calendar.

Music that Makes Community
In-person and online summer opportunities

In preparation for the Annual Conference of the Hymn Society, join MMC in Washington, D.C., on July 16. Watch for announcements about fall retreats across the country. Online programs continue, including the new songwriting workshop “Composing Ourselves,” a webinar with Jorge Lockward exploring creative liturgical composition, Morning Grounding, and more. Visit the MMC website for additional details and to register.

Conference on Worship, Theology, and the Arts
“SCATTER the IMAGINATION of our HEARTS”
St. Olaf College, Northfield Minn.
July 25–July 28

Under the theme “Scatter the Imagination of Our Hearts” (Luke 1:51), St. Olaf College's Conference on Worship, Theology, and Arts (CWTA) invites you to reflect on how the people of God can challenge, change, and inspire others, especially as faith communities imagine new responses to the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and structural racism. Presenters include: Willie James Jennings, Eunjoo Mary Kim, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, Kelly Sherman-Conroy, Joe Davis, Katherine Parent, and more. Registration is still open! Click here for more information.

Worship resources from Augsburg Fortress

Calendar of Word
and Season

Take My Voice and
Let Me Sing

Peace
at the Last

Summer Music
Clinics

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