Nov 30, 2020 launched All Creation Sings, a liturgy and song supplement in the Evangelical Lutheran Worship resource family, into a world in the grips of a global pandemic and political unrest. Its refreshed, timely, and inclusive hymns, liturgies, prayers, and communion settings renewed worship spaces internationally, offering comfort and presence in difficult times. 5 years later, nearly 90,000 copies of All Creation Sings continue to support, uplift, and walk alongside worshippers far and wide.

This line features the pew edition (2 ACS fit in the space of one ELW!), the accompaniment edition, guitar edition, the leader edition and more, including worship booklets for kids and a series of intergenerational events focused on the ACS themes!

See the ACS family of resources here!

All Creation Sings was developed as part of the ELCA’s commitment to the ongoing renewal of worship by supporting congregations’ mission in these changing times. The process included research in collaboration with ELCA Planning, Research and Evaluation; inviting submissions of new materials; the contributions and insights of working groups for liturgy and hymnody; and a broad liturgical and theological review. It has been prepared for the whole church, by the whole church.

All Creation Sings includes two new Holy Communion settings—one that is bilingual in English and Spanish, and one with options for evening use—and a contemplative Service of Word and Prayer. It also includes 200 hymns and songs, prayers, resources for lament and praise, and a Scriptural Images for God index that names 100 ways God is imaged in the Bible.

The title,  All Creation Sings, evokes a recurring scriptural theme. In the psalms and in Revelation we are invited into a vision where earth and sky and sea and all their creatures—including human beings—sing the glory of God. Yet the song of creation and our song with it includes also words and melodies of lament, of indignation, of pleading and ultimately of hope in God’s presence and mercy. These prayers and songs concern not only the health of our planetary home and its various creatures but also the health of human beings in community.  All Creation Sings, hand in hand with  Evangelical Lutheran Worship, invites us to expand our sung prayer with new and timely attention to the world our Creator so marvelously made and to our common life as creatures within it.

Want to learn more about this family of resources? Click here to go to the All Creation Sings webpage to read testimonials, view samples, download a complete fundraising kit, and so much more.

Also available: Hymns for Pastoral Care and Occasional Services is a compiled list of hymn suggestions for use in pastoral care situations and moments in your congregation’s life. Available on the Augsburg Fortress webstore and through the ELCA Worship Resources, this listing follows the orders of Evangelical Lutheran Worship Pastoral Care and Evangelical Lutheran Worship Occasional Services for the Assembly and offers additional hymn suggestions. Whether you have a need in your congregation such as your congregation’ anniversary or a pastoral care moment such as a Commendation of the Dying, this listing makes it easier for you to find suggestions from All Creation Sings in addition to the listings provided from ELW.