The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada – founded in 1922[1] as The Hymn Society of America and renamed in 1991[2] – is a not-for-profit organization for those people who: Members of The Hymn Society include clergy and worship leaders, church musicians, poets, composers, scholars, libraries and congregational singers of varied backgrounds and interests.
[3] Members of all denominations, races and cultures participate in the annual conferences and workshops sponsored by The Hymn Society.
The Society produces a quarterly publication, The Hymn, a journal of research and opinion, containing practical and scholarly articles and reflecting the diverse cultural and theological identities of the organization's membership.
[4] In 1984 it published, on microfilm, the Dictionary of American Hymnody (edited by Leonard Ellinwood and Elizabeth Lockwood), an index to the texts of more than 8000 North American hymnals.
[5] The Center for Congregational Song (CCS) is the resource and programmatic arm of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.