Our mission: to further God’s kingdom through helping others regain a literacy in the classical or traditional style of congregational worship.
Our purpose is to help others rediscover the wealth of musical tradition that we have been handed down by our forefathers in the faith.
Our modern society has recently lost this ability in its contemporary style, which for many reasons is inadequate for robust congregational worship. Our goal is to help the church regain its love and ability to sing psalms and hymns in four-part harmony.
We are doing this through producing high-quality music albums featuring the psalms and hymns available within many common psalter/hymnals, through publishing full albums designed to teach you how to sing in parts and teaching churches and families in-person how to sing the psalms and hymns the modern church has forgotten.
For about seven years, our family has been singing psalms and hymns to four part harmonies. It is our pleasure to share the skills we have learned with you and your family, and it is our greatest hope that you will likewise come to enjoy the rich wealth of musical tradition that we have been handed down by our fathers in the faith for the past two thousand years of church history.
Will and Hannah
Missionaries to the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico, my wife and I both enjoy singing Psalms and hymns to four-part harmonies. A significant part of our ministry to these people is providing them with Psalms and hymns translated into meter and sung well on Sunday mornings.
That said, we’re not afraid to help out our U.S. based brothers and sisters in Christ with learning how to regain the literacy of congregational worship. To that end, we have put several fun things on this website: albums, singing resources, podcasts, and blog articles written by yours truly. We hope you enjoy.
Psalms and hymns set to four part harmony with a piano accompaniment.
Enjoy listening to a-cappella hymns in the car, but actually enjoy their musical taste? Maybe like ourselves, you get a little tired of the one-dimensional feel that tends to prevail such albums, but what else is there besides K-LOVE? And who wants to listen to K-LOVE?
Well. We added a piano. A piano adds depth to the music while not trying to dramatize it. We think it sounds better than a-cappella and way better than K-LOVE. Check out the links below to find out more.
Podcast
Here you’ll find all the podcast episodes we put out. They roughly follow the same form and content that my articles have, but with the addition of interviews and short form snippets containing topics which haven’t fit in the articles.
Watch on YouTube
Learn how to sing Psalms and hymns with their harmonies or just play them for your listening enjoyment! We also post the podcasts to YouTube as well.
Learn to sing in parts
We believe that singing in parts is a skill that the church should strive to regain. It allows congregants to sing within their voice range, it glorifies the beautiful, God-assigned differences between men and women, and it adds a tremendous, weighty depth to any song, elevating and proclaiming its truth more eloquently.
Gendered Piety in Christian Worship
It is a sad but true fact that most men find themselves uncomfortable when called upon to sing in church. Why is this? There are many factors, and I would doubt that it is unique to this point in history, but I think that our recent bout of uneasiness among men began to occur during the Second Great Awakening…
Music Engraving
I have recently learned how to professionally engrave music with lyrics. The purpose of this is to produce translated Psalms and hymns for the Spanish or Tarahumara congregant–without having to run everything through a music publisher and spend tens of thousands of dollars in the process.
This is a pretty exciting skill for our family to possess! We are looking forward to incorporating these into our worship services in Mexico. We believe that it’s important for everyone–not just the worship leader–to have access to music along with their music, even if they don’t know much about reading music.
Instruments Befitting a Congregation
As insensitive as it sounds, there are some instruments which suit the task of congregational worship better than others. Some instruments are good across the board, while others are best suited for specific roles or specific sizes of congregations. Others, being designed for a completely different model of musical composition, simply do not fit well into congregational worship.
Mexico
God has recently called our family to join the efforts of the missionaries working in the Sierra Madre in Mexico. My wife and will provide valuable help as we focus on teaching churches how to sing Psalms and hymns.
Worship Reformation 