AWS Partial Hymn Lineup for July 2026

The following hymn lineups have been released for the July 2026 Adult Worship Services (AWS):

July 2 (Thursday)
315 • 106 • 216 • 531 • 25 • 221

July 5 (Sunday)
328 • 2 • 65 • 424 • 200 • 506

Offering Hymn: 445
Recessional Hymn: 425

The remaining July 2026 AWS and CWS hymn and Thanksgiving lineups will be posted once they become available.

A Call for Better Priorities

We stand with many organists, choir members, and especially those leading CWS in calling out the Music Department’s handling of the unusually late release of hymns for the upcoming 112th Anniversary Thanksgiving.

For an occasion that is celebrated by the entire Church, preparation time matters. Choirs need time to study, organists need time to practice, and worship service leaders need time to familiarize themselves with the music. Releasing hymns at the last minute only creates unnecessary pressure on the very people expected to perform them properly.

What makes the situation even more questionable is that recent weeks have shown considerable effort being devoted to hymn renumbering, reclassification, and catalog rearrangements. While those changes may have their place, one cannot help but wonder whether priorities have been misplaced.

Perhaps the focus should have been on finalizing and releasing the Anniversary Thanksgiving hymns first.

The renumbering could have waited.

The reclassification could have waited.

The catalog cleanup could have waited.

If numbering assignments were still under review, the hymns could have simply been released as Tanging Awit on an interim basis and assigned permanent numbers later. It would not have been the first time special hymns existed outside the standard numbering sequence while administrative matters were being finalized.

Instead, the people expected to rehearse, teach, and perform these hymns are left waiting while hymn numbers receive more attention than the hymns themselves.

No one is arguing against maintaining an organized hymnal. However, organization should support worship preparation—not delay it.
At the end of the day, choir members cannot rehearse a hymn number. Organists cannot practice a catalog revision.

They need the hymns.

And they need them on time.

Now for the question: will the hymn lineup for Evangelical Missions eventually be revised, or will it retain its current form and simply be treated as a special category outside the regular numbering system?

With Hymns 593 and 594 now reassigned for Anniversary Thanksgiving 2026, the status of the former Evangelical Mission hymns becomes less clear. These two hymns were previously part of the Lineup of Hymns for Evangelical Missions— Set 7. While they continue to be recognized as Awit sa Pamamahayag, their apparent removal from the numerical sequence raises questions regarding their place within the overall hymn catalog.

From an archival and organizational standpoint, the current structure can be somewhat confusing. The coexistence of numbered hymns alongside unnumbered Evangelical Mission hymns may create uncertainty, especially for choir members, collectors, and those maintaining hymn records. It also leaves open the question of how future Evangelical Mission hymns will be classified should new compositions be introduced.

Do you think the Evangelical Mission lineup should be formally revised and assigned a separate numbering system? Or should it remain as it is now, recognized as a distinct category of hymns outside the standard sequence?

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