Church Announces Hymns Update

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints currently plans to release Hymns—for Home and Church in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French by the end of 2026, with other languages to follow.

The new hymnbook will contain between 450 to 500 hymns and children’s songs. Up to 50 languages will be published by 2030. This means that Latter-day Saint congregations throughout the world will worship with the same consolidated and unified hymnbook, numbered the same across the languages most spoken in the Church.

In the meantime, the Church will release some new songs digitally starting in the first half of 2024. They can be used alongside hymns and songs in the Church’s current published hymnbook and songbook. These will include well-loved music of the Church composed after 1985 (such as “Faith in Every Footstep”), music borrowed from other faiths, and some of the 17,000 new songs submitted by members of the Church. Many, if not all, of these new songs that will have an early digital release will later be incorporated into Hymns—for Home and Church.