ELW is available for pre-order

Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) the new primary worship resource for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is available for pre-order from Augsburg Fortress.

The book will be published Tuesday 3 October 2006.

ELW is currently being offered in these formats

• Accompaniment Edition: Hymns ($55)
• Accompaniment Edition: Liturgies ($55)
• Leaders Desk Edition ($20)
• Leaders Ritual Edition ($140)
• Liturgies CD-ROM ($395)
• Pew Edition ($20)

Interestingly, the Pew Edition weighs in at a mamoth 1248 pages. The current hymnal, Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) is 960 pages.