NCGCC

 Dr. Thomas A. Dorsey, the “Father of Gospel Music” and writer of over 400 compositions including “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” founded the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses (NCGCC) in 1933 after recognizing a need to organize gospel choirs collectively into unions. It is recorded in history as the first convention of its kind and continues to thrive eight decades later.

The mission of the NCGCC is to foster and better the appreciation of Gospel music. NCGCC fulfills its mission through performances, training, education and related activities. NCGCC fulfills its mission through performances, training, education and related activities.

The goals of this voluntary global fellowship are as follows:

• To educate the church community, gospel music industry, the listeners, community, colleges, universities, composers, arrangers, producers and performers, directors, musicians, singers and others who perform gospel music to manifest and demonstrate the essence of sound business and performance with the high standards of excellence in keeping with the long tradition of the gospel music founders.

• To restate the vast difference between songs that are divinely inspired and the modern non-secular music of the twenty-first century.
• To expand the horizons of gospel music into other culturally diverse environments.
• To foster and promote interdenominational fellowship amid its entities, i.e. choral unions, chapters, departments, and national regions.