Comments on: All Are Welcome

By: adamjcopeland

adamjcopeland — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:17:32 +0000

Author: Marty Haugen. Tune: TWO OAKS.

By: Marci

Marci — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:06:24 +0000

Adam,
What a great hymn. THanks for sharing. Could you tell me the name of the author and the hymn tune?

By: adamjcopeland

adamjcopeland — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:19:18 +0000

Thanks, both of you, for those interesting uses. Seems like the hymn can speak powerfully in different types of contexts. I’ve always wanted to be able to put a tracking device, or something like it, on a hymn to see how, where, and when it’s used after being written. It’d be fascinating, and surely would bring plenty of surprises.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:46:00 +0000

We have used this hymn during our Capital Campaign. Our campaign was to “Extend this house of welcoming”. Essentially we are adding to the physical plant of the church some things that will make the church more welcome to visitors; a new central driveway, a new narthex, a new youth lounge. This song has been sung many times and we even have the recording of it that we have played as background music during some of our “town hall” meetings about the campaign and the construction projects. It seems very appropriate for this type of use.

By: David E.

David E. — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:32:59 +0000

This hymn is used quite frequently at Central Presbyterian in Louisville, a More Light congregation. As you look around at the diverse assembly gathered there, I find the text being lived out, for it does feel like “all are welcome.” It seems to be a sort of Mission Statement for that congregation.