I first encountered MMC in a university chapel service, and I received the songs and practices as especially relevant for sacred settings like church worship. I couldn’t have imagined then how the practices would become sufficiently integrated (and my confidence in leading strengthened!) to one day lead paperless singing in an IT training session or the financial education sessions I offered for a faith-based organization.

“There is enough!” became the unofficial anthem of our financial education program, and participants would approach me years later and call out, “There is enough!” or “I remember the song!”

Such simplicity and impact led to me “catching” songs like “We are all doing our best” or one that is unrecorded but led to a Salesforce trainer saying, “Now that is the best introduction I’ve ever received!”

We can do this new thing
Because we’re learning how
It advances our mission
Let’s get to it now! (Trainer name will show us how…)

One of the gifts of paperless music is that it challenges us to look beyond the usual tunes, practices, and ways of making music in a Euro-centric, modernist world to consider the unusual, the overlooked, and the possible.

I recently realized I could look beyond the usual and make a gift via an organizational grant I was then overseeing in addition to my monthly personal donations. By then “There is enough!” had shifted from unofficial to official in a training curriculum for faith leaders. While song-catcher Rev. Kerri Meyer has made the song available to faith communities without a licensing fee, I realized fee-free doesn’t preclude a thank you! Kerri graciously allowed me to extend my gratitude to her with an organizational gift to MMC.

This fall join me in looking for the usual and unusual ways you might support MMC’s vital mission in our world!

Jennifer Sanborn
Former MMC board member and forever enthusiast!

Jennifer Sanborn is the new Director of Development at The American Baptist Churches of Massachuetts, TABCOM, her latest adventure in how we connect our faith and our finances to together create a world where everyone has enough.

We invite you to join us in this soul tending work by considering a gift of $100 or more toward this year’s “Spiritual Toolkit” Campaign. Our fundraising goal is $50,000 by the end of the year. We invite you to join us in this soul tending work with a gift of any size. All contributions make a difference in our ability to provide programming throughout the United States and Canada -- and then invite others by sharing your stories of how communal song-sharing is part of your Spiritual Toolkit.