Kevin Anderson, a highly creative and multitalented worship leader, musician, writer and educator, served on the worship staff of the ELCA from 1999 until 2010 and was instrumental in the development of Evangelical Lutheran Worship. He was the project director, English editor and music editor of the bilingual Chinese/English Chinese Lutheran Book of Worship (2006) and Hymns of Praise Songbook (2011) in collaboration with the Lutheran Church in Hong Kong. Anderson has led worship at seven ELCA Churchwide Assemblies and both of its national worship conferences. He has been a contributing writer for Gather and he coordinated worship at the Eighth Triennial Gathering (2011) and Ninth Triennial Gathering (2014).