Dear Friends, Welcome to Sing! Global 2020. To those who have joined us before, thank you for continuing this adventure with us. To those who are new, we are so thrilled you could join us. You will find lots of helpful information in this program: songs to sing, articles to read, and other resource opportunities. We also encourage you to download the Sing! conference app, and to familiarize yourself with the new online event platform with its exhibit hall and chat rooms to build new connections. It is with great anticipation that we come to this year’s theme, the source of life and strength for the church through the ages: Sing the Scripture. Over these next four days, we invite you into the Bible’s story—a story that centers on the glorious news that Christ is our hope in life and death. We pray that this event would help us all to know the Word of God more deeply, drink from it more desperately, obey it more humbly, proclaim it more boldly, and sing it more joyfully. We hope you will leave overflowing with songs and ideas that you can readily bring back to your local church, workplaces, colleges, and homes. We hope you will be inspired by the artistry of all our wonderful performers—we need reminders of God’s beauty and transcendence in a year marred by so much tragedy. We hope that families will gain practical tools to build new habits, for this year provides an unparalleled opportunity to teach children to sing the Word. Of course, we never imagined that we would not be able to meet in person. Yet, while we cannot wait for the next time we are all together under one roof, we are excited to harness the opportunity of this moment and enjoy a truly unique event together as God’s people standing together around the world. And we hope you will enjoy all the talks and resources will remain available until the end of the year. As we begin, this is our prayer: “Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.” (2 Thes 2:16-17). Grace and peace,
Keith and Kristyn
S P E C I A L T H A N K S : Keith and Kristyn would like to thank all the conference contributors and all the teams at Streamline Event Agency and Getty Music for your wonderful partnership in the Sing! Initiative. 6
