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	July 14, 2004  LCMSNews -- 04-SC38-JI2

	Delegates approve new hymnal
	as official for use in Synod

	ST. LOUIS  The draft of a proposed new hymnal received clear
approval July 14 as an official service book and hymnal for The
Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod with a 1,014-130 vote of delegates to the
church bodys 62nd Regular Convention.

	The resolution accepting the new Lutheran Service Book also
gives the Synods Commission on Worship, which developed the hymnal,
limited latitude to make necessary changes to the hymnal draft.

	Although discussion of the hymnal stretched over two sessions,
its acceptance came less than 20 minutes after it was presented today.

	The Synods Concordia Publishing House will publish the new
hymnal, which church officials say should be available for distribution
by mid 2006.

	After delegates applauded the hymnals acceptance, Synod
President Gerald Kieschnick quipped, The chair assumes with that
applause youre going to go back and recommend that your congregations
buy the new hymnal.

	They gave a standing ovation to Dr. Paul Grime, executive
director of the worship commission, as he rose to introduce members of
the commission and and its sub-committees that have been working on the
hymnal.

	In its concluding resolved, the approved resolution encourages
congregations and other entities of Synod to participate in an
introductory process for Lutheran Service Book, which will have both a
pew and altar edition.

	The commission began work on the hymnal after the 1998 Synod
convention encouraged it to do so. The 2001 convention approved the
projects field testing, which the commission conducted in two phases
over the past three years.

	A rationale statement for the resolution at this convention
notes that the field test involved two booklets of material the
commission sent to all 6,100-plus Synod congregations and posted on the
Internet.

	Throughout the process, the statement says, feedback has
constantly been solicited, received, and noted.

	The 280-page proposal for the hymnal was sent to all of the some
1,200 convention delegates last month.

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