Our partnerships
Working together. Serving the church.
We’re seeking lasting partnerships with churches, theological institutions, and musical organisations, bringing together musical craft, theological understanding, and the experience of local worship. Each partnership should offer opportunities to contribute, learn, and serve. Together, we aim to strengthen congregational singing and confessional worship across our four Reformed traditions.
Host church
We hope to partner with a host church where our musical faculty can become members and share in congregational life. They would serve through a choir and orchestra, tuition, and mentoring. The church would also host regular rehearsals and much of our recording, allowing resources to grow out of the worship and everyday life of a local congregation.
Pilot churches and households
Pilot churches and households would help shape arrangements, teaching materials, and worship resources by testing them from the earliest stages of development. Their experience would guide revision: a difficult vocal range, an unclear explanation, or an impractical accompaniment can teach us something important. We want that learning to come from congregations and households of different sizes, traditions, and musical circumstances, including those that sing unaccompanied.
Theological colleges and denominational institutions
We seek relationships with theological colleges and denominational institutions to support the research, writing, and review of confessional resources. Their contribution would help ensure that materials faithfully represent each tradition and serve the churches for which they are intended. Collaboration could also connect theological education with the preparation of resources for gathered and family worship. In time, relationships with denominational schools could extend this work into musical education and formation.
Musical and publishing partners
We aim to build on good work already being done. Relationships with composers, publishers, musical institutions, and media specialists could bring together repertoire, teaching expertise, recording skills, and production capacity. RMI would contribute arrangements, educational resources, and musical service while learning from the experience of others. Clear agreements would support appropriate permissions, reliable editions, and accessible distribution, keeping our freely shared core available directly to churches and households.
Gathering, learning, and exchange
We envisage an annual Winter Exchange through which our faculty and students from the host church would visit an international choir, orchestra, or educational institution. Rehearsals, masterclasses, and shared music-making would provide opportunities to learn from experienced musicians, contribute teaching in return, and bring new understanding home.
An annual Summer Camp would bring partner-church musicians and international guests together for residential learning with our faculty. Ensemble work, sectionals, masterclasses, and teaching sessions would develop musical skills and lasting relationships. Both gatherings would equip participants to serve and teach in their own churches.
Lord willing, together we can nurture confessional liturgy and congregational singing for generations to come.