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It's All About Grace: A Hymn Festival in South Haven Michigan

This hymn festival took place at Hope Reformed Church in South Haven, MI on October 6, 2013.

Worship Service | October 14, 2013

Learning About Worship

Sharon Veltema on why understanding how and why we worship is fundamental when planning worship, especially with young people.

Article | October 03, 2013

Complementary Prayers for Lift Up Your Hearts

Prayers to Accompany the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of Lift Up Your Hearts.

Article | September 18, 2013

The Leadership Team is Assembled – Now What?

Sharon Veltema on how to move forward once you have established a youth ministry team.

Article | September 10, 2013

Developing an Effective Youth Leadership Team

Sharon Veltema on how to develop a youth leadership team as one way to involve youth in worship.

Article | September 10, 2013

Confessional Resources Index

An index that displays connections between several confessional resources and the hymnal, Lift Up Your Hearts.

Article | August 29, 2013

Lift Up Your Hearts: Revised Common Lectionary Index

Lectionary-based hymn suggestions

Article | August 08, 2013

Singing the Whole Story: A hymn festival in Grand Rapids, MI

This hymn festival took place at the Calvin College Chapel on June 9, 2013.

Worship Service | June 13, 2013

Ten Reasons Why Hymnals Have a Future

Hymnals make several valuable contributions to Christian life today, in dynamic interaction with all the other ways we access and project music and information. Further, a hymnal is a valuable resource for all kinds of Christians, as well as congregational leaders, whether or not their congregation uses a hymnal in worship.

Article | May 03, 2013

Erin DeYoung on Teaching Worship in Christian High School Music Classes

Erin DeYoung teaches orchestra at Calvin Christian High School in Grandville, Michigan. Her students helped lead worship at the 2013 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

Conversation | May 01, 2013

Erin DeYoung on Young Musicians Leading Worship

Erin DeYoung teaches orchestra at Calvin Christian High School in Grandville, Michigan. In this edited conversation, she shares her students’ experiences of helping to lead music at the 2013 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

Conversation | May 01, 2013

Brian Larson on Planning a Psalms for All Seasons Psalmfest

Brian Larson is cantor at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. His was one of 40 organizations that recently hosted a public congregational singing event based on the new Psalms for All Seasons: a Complete Psalter for Worship. In this edited conversation, he discusses the Psalmfest that Trinity Lutheran hosted on January 27, 2013.

Conversation | April 19, 2013

Psalmfests Bring Psalms into the Heart of Worship

Psalmfests, public festivals based on Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship, help worshipers cross boundaries of time and tradition, to explore the full spectrum of psalm singing.

Feature Story | April 08, 2013

Maria Cornou on the Most-used Spanish-language Bible Translation

Maria Eugenia Cornou is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this edited conversation, she discusses the most-used Spanish-language Bible translation.

Conversation | March 19, 2013

Larry Visser on Planning a Lift Up Your Hearts Hymnfest

Larry Visser is minister of music and chancel organist at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In this edited conversation, he discusses the hymn festival that LaGrave hosted on February 10, 2013.

Conversation | March 11, 2013

Worship Together for All Ages: Will it work or is it expecting too much?

Many churches today are eager to present themselves as “intergenerational” in their worship. In a society that so easily separates people by age, developmental level, and experience, can the church succeed in keeping the generations together? Is this idea new and novel, or old and tested? What are the considerations and issues we’ll have to deal with? How do we accommodate different rates of faith development? What are the benefits of succeeding? We’ll draw on each other’s experiences and reexamine the conversations that The Church of All Ages started.

Audio | February 22, 2013