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Mark
Mummert is Director of Worship at Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas. At Christ the King, Mark conducts the Chorus, the Choristers, the Jr. Choristers,
the Taize Ensemble and is organist and leader of the assembly song at the liturgies of the congregation. In addition, he serves
as organist for the Bach Society of Houston, a ministry of Christ the King. Prior to his call to Houston, he was Seminary
Musician at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia for eighteen years (1990-2008), where he conducted the Seminary
Choir, was Cantor to the daily Chapel, and taught courses in hymnody and liturgical music.
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Mark is a composer of the first setting of Holy Communion in
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's core worship resource, Evangelical Lutheran Worship: ELW
(2006). In the first setting, Mark composed the "Kyrie," "Glory to God," "This is the Feast," and the "Lenten Gospel Acclamation."
Mark also composed the setting of the "Benedictus" (In the tender compassion) for the ELW Morning Prayer rite, and his acclamations
"Holy God" (Trisagion) and "All of Us Go Down to the Dust" are included in the ELW Service Music section. Mark served as primary
composer and General Editor of the "Psalm Settings for the Church Year," a collection in the family of ELW resources, featuring
newly composed psalm settings for assembly and choir of the ELW Psalter useful in all churches using the Revised Common Lectionary,
published by Augsburg Fortress (July, 2008). In addition, Mark served on the development panels for liturgical music, hymnody,
and new hymnody in the Renewing Worship project of the ELCA that led to the ELW. Also, Mark served on the faculty that trained
the synodical teams for the introduction of the worship book to the church in July, 2006.
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Mark is an active member of ALCM
, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. ALCM is a pan-Lutheran association of musicians and clergy throughout North
America committed to the proclamation of the Word of God through music. For ALCM, Mark has recently served as Director of
Professional Concerns (2003-2007) and also served as the Worship Chair for the 2005 Biennial Conference in New York City and
for regional conferences in Lansdale and New Haven. Mark is also on the Advisory Council of the Institute of Liturgical Studies
at Valparaiso University.
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In August 2007, Mark served as the director of worship music
for the ELCA
Worship Jubilee and the ELCA Churchwide Assembly all held at Navy Pier in Chicago. He was organist for the 2005 ELCA Churchwide
Assembly in Orlando and organist for the National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada in Winnipeg in July,
2005. Mark was keynote speaker for "Breaking Bread, Breaking Boundaries" in Toronto, July 2004, and the Kyrkomusik Symposiet
(Church Music Symposium) of the Church of Sweden in Goteborg in September 2006. Mark returned to Goteborg in September 2007
for "God is Among Us: A Worship Symposium" where he presented a lecture ("Music in the Life of the Assembly: Formation, Integration,
Proclamation, and Celebration") and a workshop on the liturgical music of Evangelical Lutheran Worship ("Unity Through Diversity").
In 2009, Mark was a keynote speaker for the Institute of Liturgical Studies and faculty for the ELCA Worship at the Center
events focused on the rites and music of the Three Days.
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Mark
has served as Cantor at Christ Ascension Lutheran Church in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lutheran Church of
the Good Shepherd in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Glenside, Pennsylvania. As a recitalist, Mark
has appeared in programs for the American Guild of Organists and has presented hymn festivals throughout North America. He
has appeared in concert with the University of the Arts Chorale, Haddonfield Symphony Chorus, Philadelphia Chamber Chorus,
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and the Singing City Choir of Philadelphia.
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