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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. The following essay will be included in a forthcoming collection of notes about Voices Together songs, which will be available at VoicesTogetherHymnal.org. The content of this particular essay grew from discussions among the committee and a group of African American consultants. It was written by Shannon Dycus, Bradley Kauffman, and Katie Graber. “I am grateful to the work of the Voices Together team and Shannon Dycus in particular...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. By Anneli Loepp Thiessen and Katie Graber Early on Saturday morning, August 22, a highly anticipated 20-page PDF was uploaded to the Voices Together website: lists of the songs and resources in the new Mennonite hymnal. The information in the document represents four years of committee...
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ABOUT Power – yes, you’ve got it! Let’s recognize it honor it, share it, celebrate it and transform the way we use it! Mennonite women and women interested in Anabaptism, come. Pastors, academics, activists, students and members of the church, come. Women interested in doing theology — reflecting on God in relation to our lives — come. Come to listen to the stories of your sisters from all across the country and come to share your own. Come to build relationships. Come to nurture your soul, challenge your mind and find rest for your body. It’s important to recognize...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. By Katie Graber, Sarah Kathleen Johnson, Anneli Loepp Thiessen MennoMedia released a statement on Tuesday: in response to credible accusations of sexual abuse and spiritual manipulation by the hymn writer and composer David Haas, the committee compiling Voices Together has removed his songs from consideration. While these songs will not be included in the new hymnal available this fall, five songs by David Hass are in Sing...
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English Version Here Dipost pada 13 May, 2020 Oleh Staff MC USA Gereja Mennonite USA (MC USA) mendukung para pemimpin dan jemaat gereja melalui bimbingan praktis dan spiritual dan juga sumber daya ketika mereka yang mulai mempertimbangkan untuk membuka kembali gereja mereka di tengah-tengah pandemi COVID-19. "Memutuskan apakah, kapan dan bagaimana untuk membuka kembali adalah keputusan besar dengan konsekuensi serius," kata Glen Guyton, direktur eksekutif MC USA, dalam rekomendasi yang dirilis hari ini. “Para Pemimpin di Gereja Mennonite USA memikul tanggung jawab yang luar biasa ini.” Rekomendasi tersebut menguraikan enam pertimbangan untuk penegasan, membahas cara-cara untuk mengumpulkan, menyembah, dan menjadi inklusif dari semua. Guyton juga menghimbau jemaat untuk bekerja sama secara erat dengan konferensi area, dengan mencatat "Konferensi kami menyediakan jaringan sumber daya dan dukungan, dan para pemimpin konferensi kami diperlengkapi untuk memimpin dalam kepatuhan yang setia kepada Kerajaan Allah dan dalam pedoman...
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By MC USA staff Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is supporting church leaders and congregations with spiritual and practical guidance and resources as they contemplate reopening churches amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. “Deciding if, when and how to reopen is a big decision with serious consequences,” said Glen Guyton, executive director of MC USA, in a recommendation released today. “Leaders in Mennonite Church USA bear the weight of this tremendous responsibility.” The recommendation outlines six considerations for discernment, addressing ways to gather, worship and to be inclusive of all. Guyton also encourages congregations to work...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. By Katie Graber and Bradley Kauffman Copyrights background Copyright laws and procedures protect intellectual property and pay people who make a living or supplement livelihood through artistic creation. Compensating artists is a material way to acknowledge and support their work -- the hours of time, training, and craft they commit to creating words and music that enable and enrich our worship. Where church music practices and copyright laws...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. By Katie Graber The Voices Together collection will include songs and worship resources in over 40 languages. This diversity represents over two dozen languages used in Mennonite congregations in North America, plus many more by Anabaptist and other Christian groups worldwide. It includes languages no longer spoken today, such as Latin and ancient Greek, that represent the history of the Church. There are many reasons, both material and symbolic, to...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. By Katie Graber and Geraldine Balzar Choosing whether or not to include a song in Voices Together is more complicated than whether or not people like singing it. The song known as “Huron Carol” or “‘Twas in the moon of wintertime” is one example of a beloved song that raises difficult questions. To assess songs in recent Mennonite denominational collections,...
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By Katie Graber and Adam Tice This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. The words we sing in worship carry tremendous power to form our theological imaginations. The poetry we sing can become ingrained in our memories in ways that sermons and readings cannot. Songs learned in childhood remain with us throughout our lives. What language do we hope will form the generations that will grow up using Voices Together? We strive to balance the...
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by Katie Graber and Sarah Johnson The third and final Voices Together sampler appears in the Spring 2019 issue of Leader Magazine (available from MennoMedia) and will be featured at the MC USA Convention in Kansas City and the MC Canada Gathering in Abbotsford. It includes some revisions of familiar songs and new items spanning many styles, geographic locations, and historical eras. 1. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee This HYMN TO JOY tune comes from the closing choral movement of Beethoven’s ninth and final symphony (here is an excerpt). The version presented here revives Beethoven’s syncopation in the last line....
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by Benjamin Bergey, Katie Graber, Sarah Johnson, Bradley Kauffman, SaeJin Lee, Cynthia Neufeld Smith and Adam Tice, members of the Voices Together worship and song committee. The Winter 2019 Leader magazine from MennoMedia includes many resources for the Lent and Easter seasons, which extend from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost. Lent is traditionally a time for self-reflection, repentance, and seeking transformation through prayer, fasting, and charitable giving. Easter is a joyful 50-day celebration, longer than the 40-day fast of Lent before it. Worship resources for Easter can be used every Sunday from Easter to Pentecost to celebrate the presence and power...
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Katie Graber is an ethnomusicologist who studies race and ethnicity in a variety of contexts including Mennonite music, American music, and European opera. She has taught classes on Western music history and world music, and she accompanies Suzuki recitals and school choirs. She leads singing at her church in Columbus, Ohio, and chairs the Intercultural Worship committee for the Voices Together project. When Hymnal: A Worship Book was published in 1992, it contained both familiar and new songs. The next worship and song collection, Voices Together, will also include songs from past and present, and from around the world in...
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Over the next few months we’ve invited folks from across Mennonite Church USA to reflect on our Journey Forward and consider how they’ve seen Renewed Commitments at work in their lives, their congregation or community. If you’d like to contribute to this series by highlighting stories that bring our shared values to life, email JenniferC@MennoniteUSA.org. Ruth Harder is the pastor at Rainbow Mennonite Church in Kansas City, Kansas. She grew up in Hillsboro, Kansas and is a graduate of Bethel College and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Ruth is married to Jesse Graber, a free-lance illustrator. You will find both of them making com(promises) here and there. ...
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