The Music of Worship at Grace 

The song of the people at Grace is both traditional and contemporary, ethereal and earthy, meditative and driving while finding its roots in cultures from around the globe and across the centuries.  Every Sunday and every service includes a blending of traditions.  We eat at one table and worship with one song. 

Our worship follows the liturgical form and utilizes liturgy settings from the Lutheran Book of Worship, With One Voice, our own Global Liturgy, and we even occasionally dust off the Chicago Folk Service.  Hymns are collected from a variety of sources including the new Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the Lutheran Book of Worship, With One Voice, This Far by Faith, Worship and Praise, Gather, the Hymnal Supplement 1991, Borning Cry and more. 

Vocal and Instrumental Solos 

Musicians who would like to share their gifts as soloists are encouraged to contact the Minister of Music to offer themselves as cantors, liturgy instrumentalists, or soloists for special music.   

Vocalists

·      Cantors-Lead in the singing of the liturgy or the psalm as a cantor.  The amount of singing for the cantor and the repertoire changes each week depending on the liturgy and psalm settings for the day. 

·      Special Music-Vocal solos are encouraged and used as Prelude, Offering, and Communion music.  Repertoire is matched to the texts of the day or the location in the liturgy.  If you have a piece to offer, check with the Minister of Music and she will find an appropriate place to suit the piece.   

Instrumentalists

·      Liturgy supplemental musicians-Most of our liturgy settings have supplemental instrument parts.  If you want to be involved, we’ll find a place for you in the liturgy or hymnody of worship.

·      Special Music-Instrumental solos are encouraged and used as Prelude, Offering, and Communion music.  Repertoire is carefully fit into the flow of the liturgy.  Don’t be shy alerting the Minister of Music if you have a piece to offer in worship!