The 69th Llano River Valley German Hymn Fest will be held on Sunday, September 22, 2019 at the Hilda United Methodist Church in Hilda, Texas, just off of F.M. 783 beginning at 3:00 p.m. In 1951, Rev. W.R. Birkner and Hugo Schulze decided to celebrate the singing of hymns in German to the glory of God, and to express appreciation for the Christian faith of early German settlers, and to preserve the inspiration of God’s word as expressed through the German language.