David Eicher has joined the staff of the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation and is serving as the editor of the next Presbyterian hymnal. Eicher is a Presbyterian elder and a longtime member of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM). Prior to coming to PPC, David was the organist and handbell director of First Presbyterian Church in Mishawaka, Indiana, and the interim executive director of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. He served on PAM's executive board of directors from 1996 to 2004 and maintains memberships in the Association of Reformed and Liturgical Worship and the American Choral Directors Association. Eicher was president of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada until July 2008. David was editor of Holy Is the Lord: Music for Lord's Day Worship, published by Geneva Press.

Upon accepting the position, Eicher said, "With a deep sense of gratitude to God, I accepted the call of the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation to be the editor of the new Presbyterian hymnal. It is a great honor and privilege to be called to lead this important project in the life of our church, and I enter this new work secure in the knowledge that God goes before to lead the way."

Dr. Carl Daw, executive director of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, states, "Eicher is an excellent choice for the editor of a new hymnal. He brings to this task a lifetime of experience in church music, making him both deeply grounded in Presbyterian tradition and also broadly conversant with the range of congregational song used by various Christian traditions in North America and around the world. I am certain that the gifts of leadership he has shown in the Hymn Society will enable him to serve most effectively in this new position."

Eicher's additional service to the PC(USA) includes his membership on the Theology and Worship Ministry Unit Committee, his work as chair of the Theology and Worship Committee of the Presbytery of Wabash Valley, his leadership as conference director of the 1998 Albuquerque Conference of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM), and his participation on the planning teams of PAM's Worship and Music Conferences at Montreat in 2003 and 2008.

Eicher, a Harrisonburg, Virginia, native, has provided music leadership for congregations in a career that has spanned nearly thirty years. He was director of music ministries at the Presbyterian Church of La Porte, Indiana; organist and choir director at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Hinsdale, Illinois, and Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana; and an organist at churches in Indiana and Ohio. Eicher graduated from Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana, with a Bachelor of Science degree in applied music, and he earned a Master of Arts in liberal studies with a concentration in organ and church music from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.