The 2008 General Conference authorized the General Board of Discipleship and the United Methodist Publishing House to conduct a study to determine the need for an official United Methodist hymnal for North American Christians of African descent. Below are the results of that study.
The reports below are pdf files.
Executive Summary of the Africana Hymnal Study Committee Report
Recommendations of the Africana Hymnal Study Committee
Africana Hymnal DVD/CD Series Legislation (to come)
Complete Africana Hymnal Study Report (400 pages)
Online Study Report Summary
Online Study Report PowerPoint (in pdf)
Short Survey Summary Report
Short Survey Report PowerPoint
Short Survey Report Data (200 pages)
(Sample) Online Survey
(Sample) Short Survey
(Sample) Listening Session Questions
Frequently Asked Questions about the Africana Hymnal Study
Listening Session MP3s
SEJ -- Worship Explo, Lake Junaluska, NC (to come)
NEJ – BMCR/SBC-21, Baltimore, MD (to come)
NCJ -- BMCR, Milwaukee, WI (to come)
SCJ -- St. Luke’s Community UMC, Dallas, TX (to come)
WJ -- Jones Memorial UMC, San Francisco, CA (to come)
SEJ -- Mission and Media, Tupelo, MS (to come)
SEJ -- St. Mark’s UMC, Sumter, SC (to come)