Step up LSM to Support Scholarships
Lutheran Summer Music 2023 is fast approaching! Joyfully, we will soon welcome the largest student body to LSM in over a decade.
Through the year, these students have spent countless hours preparing to attend LSM. They have written personal statements in their applications, practiced and recorded their auditions, coordinated with their families, coaches, teachers, and bosses for the ever-important summer schedule, arranged travel, raised funds, and maybe have even looked at the suggested packing list. They are ready to join the LSM 2023 community, but they need help.
With applications nearly doubled from this time in 2022, requests for financial aid have substantially increased. The stories and backgrounds from these student applicants are diverse and unique, but each family’s need for scholarship support is deeply felt. At this time, we must raise $25,000 to ensure that our accepted applicants are able to attend LSM this summer.
On Thursday, April 20, we are launching “Step Up Day.” We invite all members of the LSM community to STEP UP and donate to our student scholarship fund. Any gift you make during this day of giving will be matched 100% by the Mundt Foundation, and a few other generous individual donors.
Your gifts directly fulfill each and every student’s eager desire to attend LSM. Here’s what just a few of our 2023 applicants expressed about why the wish to be part of Lutheran Summer Music:
A student from Pennsylvania:
"For me, music and church simply belong together, whether that is in the sonatas or concertos of J.S. Bach, in a simple hymn, or in more modern worship music. What strikes me about LSM is not just the music, but the collaborative rather than competitive spirit, boosted by the faith life that is such a big part of LSM."
A student from Minnesota:
"I want to attend LSM because I would learn a lot from intensive music study. I love music because it expresses feelings in a deeper way than just words."
A student from Virginia:
"It is not often I am part of a group where I feel like I truly belong, and I hope LSM is the place I can find that."
A student from Washington:
"I want to attend LSM because I am truly happiest when I make music alongside other people. I also hope to learn a little more about my faith, and how I can serve the church with my musical gifts."
A student from Texas:
“I want to attend LSM for three primary reasons: to improve my musical skills, to make new friends, and to devote four weeks of my summer to self-improvement and faith. Aside from the obvious goal of musical improvement, I hope to use this opportunity to discipline myself and find more ambition to be productive in my day-to-day life. I also hope that my time away from home will allow me to spend more time reflecting on God.”
We thank you for your help in welcoming these and many other extraordinary young musicians into the affirming community of LSM, which we know will serve as a life-long source of joy for our incoming students, and will make a profound impact on the next generation of musicians, teachers, and church leaders.