Hold My Hope: Songs of Ana Hernández

Hold My Hope: Songs of Ana Hernández contains short songs for worship, meditation, and prayer.

Hernández provides a wide variety of musical styles, including simple melodies, rounds, call-and-response tunes, echo songs, canons, zipper songs (fill-in-the-blank songs), and mashups. These songs encourage participation and improvisation from both the leader and the assembly in order to deepen our connection with God, each other, and the world around us. Additional notes provide tips for how to lead these songs in your context.

Ana Hernández is a composer, arranger, workshop facilitator, activist, song leader, and author. She travels around collaborating with groups small and large to deepen community and create beautiful liturgies in many different styles. Ana’s work aims to bring each of us to a sustainable place where we can show up, be present, and listen generatively, in order to remember how beloved we all are.