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All Creation Sings Resources for Lent, the Three Days and Easter. Whether you are new to All Creation Sings or using it already, this blog post points to ways it can support your worship in the beginning of a new church year.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…

Worship Resources for the Crisis in the Holy Land
A set of worship resources is now available on ELCA.org. Several prayers are provided that could be used during the prayers of intercession or at other times, in public worship or for devotional use at home or in other settings. Additions may be made to these resources in the coming days and weeks.

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Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival
Transforming and connecting lives through faith and music since 1981.

It’s time to nominate students for Lutheran Summer Music
Every year, the primary way that music students find their way to LSM is through the encouragement of their church musician! LSM offers opportunities for musicians of all kinds: brass, winds, strings, percussion, piano, organ, voice, harp, guitar, handbells, and more! Students receive advanced musical instruction through large ensembles (festival choir, band and orchestra), chamber music, private lessons with collegiate-level faculty and elective classes (such as conducting, composition, church music, introduction to the pipe organ, jazz band, musical theatre, music therapy). In the evenings students attend recitals, evening prayer services and social events with their friends.

LSM 2024 takes place at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Ind., from June 30 to July 28 (full session) or June 30 to July 14 (half session) and is open to students who have completed grades 8-12. Know a musical young person who would thrive at LSM? Nominate them today.

Additional resources and events from our partner ministry organizations are highlighted on the ELCA Worship Blog.

RESOURCES FROM AUGSBURG FORTRESS/1517 MEDIA

Gathered Into One: Devotions for Lent 2024

Gathered into One provides daily devotions for each day from Ash Wednesday to the Resurrection of Our Lord/Vigil of Easter (traditionally known as Holy Saturday). Devotions begin with an evocative image and a brief passage from 1 Corinthians. The writers then bring their diverse voices and pastoral wisdom to the texts with quotations to ponder, reflections and prayers. The apostle Paul writes 1 Corinthians after hearing of quarreling and divisions among the people, emphasizing a theme of unity amid diversity that is as timely now as it was when Paul was writing.

Additional product and resource suggestions from the publishing ministry of the ELCA are available on the ELCA Worship blog.