If you’re a guitarist, you’ll appreciate this how-to video of the guitar solo by Lincoln Brewster of his song “Today is The Day”. What a great song!
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Jared Anderson’s Free Tune School
Jared Anderson (Desperation Band/New Life Worship) recently started producing free piano tutorial videos on youtube. He shows you how to play many of the New Life Worship songs as well as his original songs. Here’s one of the videos – “Counting On God”. For more videos, check out his youtube channel.
It’s a great resource for piano/keyboard players. Check it out!
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Kari Jobe / Gateway Worship – “O The Blood” Music Video
Check out this new music video from Gateway Worship – Kari Jobe leading the song “O The Blood”. Very powerful!
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A Huge Worship Resource Giveaway!
We are excited to partner with an amazing giveaway for church leaders.
Proclaim Church Presentation Software is breaking all the rules with the Great Worship Resource Giveaway. To celebrate its coming launch into the church presentation market, Proclaim has partnered with today’s top worship resource companies to give away over $25,000 in prizes to more than 100 winners.
WorshipPlanning.com is proud to announce that we are partnering in this giveaway by giving away 10, 1-year subscriptions of our Bronze plan.
“We put together a giveaway that will help worship leaders everywhere,” said New Media Executive Director Matt Peterson. “Proclaim is all about creating better worship services. Shouldn’t the giveaway do the same thing?”
The prizes all center around one thing—creating powerful worship services. To enter watch the video at proclaimonline.com and at the end there is a list of ways to enter the giveaway. There are several one-time ways to enter and a couple ways to enter every day!
Good luck!
Paul Baloche on Integrating New Players
Are you intentional about finding and integrating new and/or young players on your worship team?
Paul Baloche encourages worship leaders to actively identify and recruit new musicians and leaders on the worship team:
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Christmas Song Contest Winner Announced
We are excited to announce the winner of our Christmas Song Contest we recently held!
Josh Cuthbertson was the one that won the most points and therefore won a free iPod Touch! Congratulations, Josh! We would like to say a HUGE thanks to everyone that participated. It was a lot of fun.
In case you’re curious, here is the correct order of most sung Christmas songs in 2010 within WorshipPlanning.com:
- Joy To the World
- O Come all ye Faithful / O Come Let Us Adore Him
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Silent Night
- O Come O Come Emmanuel
- O Holy Night
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- What Child is This
- The First Noel
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Away in a Manger
- Emmanuel
- Jesus Messiah
- Go Tell It On the Mountain
The Importance of Singing Truth – Video by Bob Kauflin
Here’s an insightful video by Bob Kauflin discussing singing in the church. He starts out by saying, “Singing is risky business. Singing for Christians is risky.”
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Be Yourself – Don Moen
Veteran worship leader and songwriter, Don Moen, shares the importance of being yourself as a worship leader and not trying to be someone else. One of the profound things Don shares in this video is: “God does not anoint who you want to be; He anoints who you are.”
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iPhone App – Finally!
The big news we have been waiting for has finally arrive. The WP iPhone app was approved by Apple this afternoon, and we are delighted! It is now available in the App Store (just search for “Worship Planning”). Once installed, you may notice the version number on the splash screen to be 0.9rc2. If we had our druthers, it would have said version 1.0. But the source code is virtually identical. In the confusion to get Apple to approve our app (see our June 15th blog post), this 0.9rc2 version was submitted instead of version 1.0. Again, they both contain the exact same code, just a different version number.
What you can expect from this app is functionality similar to MyWP. Future releases will certainly contain functionality that more closely resembles the main site. But for this release we wanted an app that had features used by both Planners and Helpers.
So, feel free t
o install and give it a try. We look forward to your feedback to help shape the future releases. And, as always, if you have any questions or issues, feel free to give us a call (1-877-399-3342) or send us an email (support[at]worshipplanning.com).
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