When our family found out the church was accepting submissions for the new hymn book, I decided it would be fun to compose a hymn as a summer project. If I could do it as a final in my theory class, it should be easy as a family, right? First I let the kids decide what it should be about. My 6 year old (the oldest) loves the story of the Stripling Warriors and the song Army of Helaman, so he wanted it to be related to that, my 4 year old said it should be about "Christ is the Lord". I pondered upon that for a while and the lyrics came to me one night through "sudden strokes of inspiration". I ran it by the kids and they approved. The kids chose the melody, my husband (a drummer) helped create some interesting rhythmic ideas and then using my music knowledge I gave them multiple choice options to choose the harmony and chord progression.

This was a great family project and it was exciting to be able to perform a few years after we wrote it when that 6 year old turned 8 and got baptized.

If you choose to use this song, me and my family would love to hear how you used it and what you think!