# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2007_S54
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54 SYNOD REPORTS

about the worship life on each campus and to gain insight into each
school’s curriculum, particularly as it pertains to worship and
church music. The commission believes that these visits will pro-
vide future opportunities to work more closely with the Synod’s
schools of higher education.

LetUsPray. For over seven years, the commission has provided
weekly prayers suitable for use in corporate worship. This free ser-
vice to congregations of the Synod is distributed via e-mail. It con-
tinues to be well received and has certainly contributed toward the
commission’s original goal, which was to strengthen congregations
in their important work of intercessory prayer.

Lutheran Musician Enrichment (LME). In the fall of 2000, the
commission launched a training program for parish musicians.
Over the course of four years, several hundred musicians received
basic training in skills necessary for leading the congregation’s
song. With development and production of LSB requiring consid-
erable staff time, LME training was temporarily suspended. With
the bulk of LSB now completed, the commission intends to revive
this training program.

The 2007 and 2008 workshops described above will serve as a
first step toward the reinvigoration of LME. Based on response to
those workshops, approximately ten sites will be identified for startup
in the fall of 2008, with additional sites later identified for 2009.

Accomplishments
¢ Published Lutheran Service Book in collaboration with CPH, to-
gether with the following companion resources:
¢ Gift Edition (2006)
¢ Agenda (2006)
e Altar Book (2006)
e Lectionary—Series C (2006)
e Lectionary—One- Year (2006)
¢ Accompaniment for the Hymns (2006)
© Accompaniment for the Liturgy (2006)
¢ Lutheran Service Builder (2006)
¢ Pastoral Care Companion (2007)
¢ Lectionary—Series A (2007)
e Lectionary—Series B (2007)

¢ Independently published A Guide for Introducing Lutheran Ser-
vice Book and LSB Hymn Selection Guide.

¢ Conducted over 280 introductory LSB workshops in the U.S. and
Canada.

¢ Sponsored national worship conference in 2005 with nearly 650
in attendance. .

¢ Identified areas of work to develop diverse worship resources in
fulfillment of 2004 Res. 2-04.

¢ Completed visits to each of the universities and colleges of the
Concordia University System and to both seminaries.

Goals

e Continue to develop desk editions for LSB.

¢ Continue promotion of LSB through workshops and publications.
e Sponsor a third national worship conference in 2008.

e Implement recommendations pertaining to 2004 Res. 2-04.

¢ Restart Lutheran Musician Enrichment.

Resources

e LSB Hymn Selection Guide

e LSB Introductory Workshop presentation available on Web site
for podcasting (worship.lcms.org)

e LetUsPray (subscribe via the Synod’s “‘eNews” at www.Icms.org/
enews, selecting “LetUsPray” in the “Worship” folder)

2007 Convention Workbook

© Text, Music, Context: A Resource for Reviewing Worship Mate-
rials (available from CPH; order no. S05505)

e Supplemental Inserts to the Reporter
Appendix

2-04 Subcommittee Report
on Diverse Worship

At the 2004 Synodical convention in St. Louis, the Commission
on Worship was directed to “initiate a process leading to the de-
velopment of diverse worship resources for use in the LCMS.”
To assist with that process, the commission appointed a special
subcommittee of knowledgeable people to assist with this task. The
Committee for Diverse Worship Resources met three times to dis-
cuss these issues and formulated six recommendations for the
Commission on Worship to consider in the next triennium in ful-
fillment of the convention mandate of the Synod. The commission
is encouraged to:

Recommendation #1

Develop a publication or Web distribution of a quarterly “mag-
azine” or resource package which would include articles dealing
with worship planning, modeling, review of new songs, utilization
of new media and technology, teaching new music, etc.

Recommendation #2

Offer worship arts and music seminars/conferences to inform
and educate the church which consider and build on the diversity of
worship styles extant across the Synod.

Recommendation #3

Develop regularly updated Web-based lists of appropriate and
accessible resources that are easily and readily available to pastors
and music leaders. Include an exchange listing of available wor-
ship leadership positions as well as names of musicians and others
skilled in worship arts who are interested in such positions.

Recommendation #4

Collaborate with the seminaries of the Synod in developing cur-
riculum and experiences that train and mentor future pastors in di-
verse worship practices, modeling these diverse worship practices
in the worship life of the campus.

Recommendation #5

Assist the Board for University Education in encouraging the
establishment of at least one of the schools in the Concordia Uni-
versity System as a site for a worship arts degree program. This
course of studies would include music instruction and worship di-
rection in a full range of styles, use of media in worship, dramatic
and theatre arts, extensive training in contemporary as well as tra-
ditional music, etc. Completion of this program by a student would
lead to a music degree with a contemporary emphasis leading to
rostered status as a director of parish music.

Recommendation #6

Develop a Lutheran Composers Group to network those
Lutheran composers who wish to exchange and make available to
others materials which may be suitable for worship. This network
would be a place where Lutheran composers could put their mate-
rials on the Web for sharing, for critique, and for support.

Gregory Wismar, Chairman
Paul Grime, Executive Director