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Copyrights during COVID-19

This article originally appeared as a part of the Mennonite Church USA series on Voices Together.   By Katie Graber and Bradley Kauffman Copyrights background Copyright laws and procedures protect intellectual property and pay people who make a living...
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A Prayer for Healing

As Voices Together is undertaking permissions work (seeking copyright contracts) in this period between January and June, we offer a song and a worship resource that may speak into the disorientation of these days of COVID-19.  The following excerpt...
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Why and how should we sing interculturally?

This article originally appeared as a part of the Mennonite Church USA 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...
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Voices Together presales far exceed initial projections

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Mennonite church congregations, colleges, universities, and camps have preordered 29,388 copies of Voices Together. “We are overwhelmed by the outpouring of enthusiasm support for this momentous project,” said Amy Gingerich, publisher at MennoMedia. “Truly this work...
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Behind the scenes of Voices Together

“Mom Squad” volunteers prepare texts for editing HARRISONBURG, VA — When some of the individuals working on the forthcoming Voices Together hymnal needed help with a big task, they called their moms. The task was daunting: the text committee...
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Voices Together committee holds final meeting

WATERLOO, ON — A stack of paper containing 780 songs and a binder of 320 worship resources greeted each member of the Voices Together committee when they arrived for their tenth and final committee meeting in early October. In...
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Voices Together Hymnal Discounts Extended

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Due to a high response rate, MennoMedia is extending the Voices Together case quantity discount until December 1, 2019. The quantity discount was to be for the first 10,000 copies of the pew edition sold. But...
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