Princeville, Illinois

Princeville, Illinois

The Apostolic Christian Men’s Sing all began back on Labor Day Weekend, 1980 in the small town of Princeville, Illinois, just a little north of Peoria. Brothers from the Princeville Apostolic Christian Church planned the first Men’s Sing by inviting 45 brothers from other Apostolic Christian churches, to record “O For A Thousand Tongues”. Then, in 1983, the Princeville church invited again and 70 Brothers recorded “Rise Up, O Men Of God”. Both recordings were made under the direction of Brother Al Hartzler of the Princeville congregation.

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We encourage you to create an account on this website so that you can then subscribe to updates.  Please note that creating a user account is prerequisite to registering to attend the men’s sing, which is done on the Registration page.

Hymns Available

Greetings in the name of our Lord!

The Morris and Morris North congregations look forward to hosting the Men’s Sing on August 23, 2025.  If you’ve not already registered but plan to come, please register.  And if you’re not planning to attend this year, please login and update your profile accordingly.  Thank you.

As we continue preparing for the 2025 men’s sing, we hope you’ll help us through prayer and practice. In particular, we’ve published a PDF and MP3 audio file of each song in the “Quick Links” 2025 Hymn List sidebar to the right (PC) or at the bottom (mobile device) to help you learn the songs ahead of time.  We will be sharing plans for practice sessions soon, and we encourage you to schedule a time with other brothers in your and nearby churches to sing through the songs if you are not near where practices are planned.

We pray these songs will bless and inspire you like they’ve blessed and inspired the men’s sing organizers already.

Once you’ve finished any practices, please delete or destroy any copies you’ve downloaded or printed. On the day of the recording, we will provide each singer with a choir book containing a copy of each song. Furthermore, these copies will include a few more final details not noted in these preliminary PDFs, such as dynamics, solos or duets, measures to repeat, and similar flourishes that emphasize the message.

If you haven’t done so already, please update your registration to let us know your plans to attend.  We are really looking forward to hosting all of you 9 weeks from today!

Email:  jwsteiner+acms@gmail.com

Call / text / WhatsApp:  320.288.0719

Hymn List

Greetings, singing men and brothers

We recently completed our song selection and wanted to share it with you.  We are on track to share music scores with you by the end of June, as Brother Andy continues his work making sure each chord is just right, with a few delightful shimmers here and there!

Here’s the song list:

SongSource
A Crown of ThornsInspirational Songs for Men #3 p31
At The CrossingInspirational Songs for Men #2 p112
Be Thou Our GuideHymns We Love p454
Boundless MercyZH p220
Christ AroseInspirational Songs for Men #3 p25
Christ ReturnethHymns We Love p502
Glorious Things Of Thee Are SpokenPublic Domain – Towner melody
I BelieveS.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A.
In Thee Do I LiveHymns We Love p308
Nearer HomeHymns We Love p500
Sweet By And ByHymns We Love p494
Ten Thousand AngelsLillenas Publishing p26
The Fire SongGH p814
The Flame Of Jesus LoveZH p73
The Song Of The SoldierHymns We Love p460
What Heavenly MusicSDA Hymnal
Whisperings Of JesusFinest of the Wheat Male Chorus p15

If you haven’t done so already, please update your registration to let us know your plans to attend.  We are really looking forward to hosting all of you in just over 10 weeks!

Email:  jwsteiner+acms@gmail.com

Call / text / WhatsApp:  320.288.0719

Registration is open!

Lord willing, the Morris and Morris North churches are excited to host the 2025 AC Men’s Sing on Saturday, August 23 at the Morris church.  Brother Andy Sauder from our Morton congregation has agreed to be our director, and we have begun the process of selecting songs, planning to have those available to you by mid-June.

Please join us for a weekend of beautiful singing and wonderful fellowship.  Our sisters are working on a schedule that will include a visit to Inherit Clothing Company and Farm Road Flowers, so if you’re married, please plan to bring your wife (and checkbook…!) along too!

We realize many of you will need to make travel plans via air, bus, or carpool, and we are hopeful to have enough interest to warrant bringing a charter bus from Ohio, Indiana, and/or Illinois, so please consider that option.  For those traveling by air, Fargo and Minneapolis will be your best options, and their 2+ hour distance from Morris precludes us from making airport transfer arrangements for you.

Comments from the director:

Greetings,

I am humbled and blessed to be the brother up in front in Morris. If you sang in Tremont in 2011, you may recall I was directing while nursing a very painful sprained ankle. Despite the pain it was an incredible experience, so this year the close harmony and worship will be enjoyed in its full inspiring effect! We are working to finalize the song selection and then hope to have practice sessions prior to the recording date.

Looking forward to praising our Great God together.

~Andy

With all that in mind, registration is now open at acmensing.org!

Direct recipients of this email already have an account on the site, so please sign in and update your registration whether you plan to attend or not (see details below). For questions, contact Brother Jeff Steiner at jwsteiner+acms@gmail.com.

If this message was forwarded to you, note that if you create an account on the website and register for this year’s event, you will receive notification for future posts that are shared as the weekend draws closer.

We sincerely appreciate your prayers and support as we continue our planning, to the glory and honor of Almighty God!

Jeff Steiner

…on behalf of the Morris North and Morris MN hosts

jwsteiner+acms@gmail.com

Call / text / WhatsApp:  320.288.0719

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For new account registrations:If you’d like to participate, please register.

  1. Go to acmensing.org.
  2. Select “Register”.
  3. Fill out and submit the registration form.
  4. Once you receive the initial “welcome” email, click through to complete the validation of your account
    • be sure to check your spam folder if you don’t see the message right away

For existing accounts:

If you received this email directly, you’ve already created an account with a login username and password at acmensing.org.  Therefore, to register for this year’s Men’s Sing you need to:

  1. Go to acmensing.org.
  2. Login.  ==> Under “Quick Links”, click “Login”.
    • If you’ve forgotten your password, click “Forgot your password” to reset your password
    • Be sure to check your spam folder if you don’t see the email right away
  3. Go to User ==> User Profile.
  4. Click the “gear” button ==> Edit Profile.
  5. Update your information, which includes sign-up details for this year’s Men’s Sing, and click “Update Profile”.

2025 Men’s Sing

Greetings in Jesus’ name, dear Brothers and friends! Lord willing, we plan to host the 2025 AC Men’s Sing on Saturday, August 23 and Sunday, August 24 in Morris, MN, and Brother Andy Sauder from our Morton congregation has agreed to be our director. Please join us for a weekend of beautiful singing and wonderful fellowship. We will provide more details in the future, including registration for the weekend, so check back in April or May for further information. Note that if you create an account on this website (if you already have an account you already receive them), you will receive notification for any posts that are shared.

Jeff Steiner
…on behalf of the Morris & Morris North 2025 Men’s Sing hosts

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