{"id":9261,"date":"2025-09-10T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:04:56","slug":"partner-organization-resources-and-events-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worship\/9261\/","title":{"rendered":"Partner Organization Resources and Events"},"content":{"rendered":"
Each month ELCA Worship highlights resources and events from other organizations and institutions. These Lutheran and ecumenical partner organizations work alongside the ELCA to support worship leaders, worship planners, musicians, and all who care about the worship of the church.\u00a0<\/em>ELCA Worship also features resources from Augsburg Fortress Publishers in a monthly blog post.<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n
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Association of Lutheran Church Musicians<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n
ALCM nurtures and equips musicians to serve and lead the church’s song.<\/em><\/h5>\n
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Lutheran Summer Music Academy & Festival<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n
Transforming and connecting lives through faith and music since 1981.<\/em><\/h5>\n

New FREE Arrangement from Lutheran Summer Music by Anne Krentz Organ<\/p>\n

Download a new free arrangement from Lutheran Summer Music 2025 by Anne Krentz Organ: Beach Spring<\/em> for solo instrument with keyboard accompaniment. Based on the well-known shape-note hymn tune, this versatile work is this year\u2019s installment in the LSM Hymn Tune Project and can be performed either in full or as individual movements. Listen and download for free at LSMacademy.org\/lsmpress.<\/p>\n

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Vi Messerli Memorial<\/strong> Lectures in Church Music<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

For All the Saints<\/strong><\/em>
\nOctober 19-21
\n<\/strong>Concordia University Chicago
\n<\/strong>River Forest, Illinois<\/p>\n

Join us for another exciting year of celebrating the Church’s song at the Vi Messerli Memorial Lectures in Church Music<\/strong>. This year’s presenters include: John D. Witvliet<\/strong>, founding director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI, and currently professor of theology and worship at Belmont University; noted organist and composer John Behnke<\/strong>, a Festival of Hymns by David W. Rogner<\/strong>, presented by Concordia-Chicago’s Kapelle<\/strong>, and the choirs of Grace Lutheran Church and First Saint Paul\u2019s Lutheran Church<\/strong>, and organist and composer Brenda Portman<\/strong>.\u00a0 Register today for this and much more!<\/p>\n

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Music that Makes Community<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n
\"\"Rooted in Christian contemplative and activist traditions, Music That Makes Community envisions a liberative culture that empowers individuals and communities to claim and use the power of singing to heal our spirits, nurture our common lives, and work for justice. <\/em><\/h5>\n

Introductory Spaces \u2013 Meet Music that Makes Community at these events and conferences.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n