Fifteen New Hymns Available to Use in Church and at Home

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:22:24 +0000

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is adding 15 new hymns to its global collection, “Hymns—For Home and Church” today, February 13, 2025. These songs will be available in the online Music Library, Gospel Library and Sacred Music app in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French within the next 24 hours.

The 15 new hymns are:
“Close As a Quiet Prayer”
“Come, Hear the Word the Lord Has Spoken”“Faith in Every Footstep”
“Holy Places”
“I Can’t Count Them All”
“I Have Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ”
“I Know That My Savior Loves Me”
“Let Easter Anthems Ring”
“Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling”
“Standing on the Promises”
“Take My Heart and Let It Be Consecrated”
“This Little Light of Mine”
“To Love like Thee”
“Welcome Home”
“Were You There?”

The May 2024 release of 13 hymns, which included “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” “Gethsemane,” and “It Is Well with My Soul,” is now also available in German, Korean, and Tagalog. Mandarin and Japanese will follow in the coming months.

“We hear the promise and prophecy in the scriptures that all people — every nation, kindred, tongue and people — will be able to learn of the gospel,” said Kayla Decker, the translation manager for the new hymnbook. “The taking of this hymnal to the world, to me, is a manifestation of that prophecy of God.”