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Music that Makes Community
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, New York City, N.Y.
Nov. 13-15, 2014
Theoretically, I’ve always known that music creates community, but this was an experience of that reality. Singing together without paper not only creates community, it empowers and transforms it. I really believe singing in this way changes the ways that we’re church together.
– Pastor Bradley Schmeling
Empowering!
– Pastor Tita Valeriano
Sponsored by All Saints Company, San Francisco, these conferences are perfect for anyone – pastors, lay leaders, choir directors, Sunday school teachers, organists and more – who seek to find ways of engaging an assembly in song in a truly authentic way.
To learn more about upcoming events, go to www.musicthatmakescommunity.org.
Called to Be A Living Voice
Worship and music practitioners (ordained and lay, professional or volunteer, anyone who cares and is curious about worship) are invited to Atlanta to listen to one another, to join our voices in worship and song, and to be renewed in our calling to be God’s living voice today.
- Participants will be exposed to a wide variety of worship practices and perspectives in this church broadening their palette of possibilities within their own worshiping community.
- Participants will network with others across the church, finding energy and renewal in singing, worshiping, and learning together.
- On the final day, participants will contribute information and ideas to help shape the immediate future of worship renewal in this church, returning home to share what they experienced and, perhaps, find ways to extend the experience to others in their corner of the church.
Exciting program and worship plans are developing and will be added to the website as they are confirmed. Check back regularly to learn more about the plans being made for you. An advance glimpse of some dynamic presenters not yet on the website, includes: Nadia Bolz-Weber, Stephanie Burke, Clayton Faulkner, Paul Hoffmann, Gordon Lathrop, Gail Ramshaw, Jonathan Rundman, Clay Schmitt, and more. This Jubilee will assist you in crafting plans for observing the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation with your community in 2017.
To begin planning your budget for next year, registration fees have been recently added to the website. We are happy to announce that partial payments can be made this year to help spread the expense out over two budget years. See the Registration section of the website for information. Official registration will open later in the fall. | www.LivingVoice2015.org.
