We’re excited to offer you another free song for the next 7 days, in partnership with WeAreWorship.com!
The song is “I Will Call” featuring Lydia Ingegneri & Corey Voss
CLICK HERE to download the MP3 and the chord chart for FREE! (Oh no! This offer has expired, but we’ll be offering another free song soon. Subscribe to our blog if you don’t already.)
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Church CO+OP (http://churchco-op.org), a Texas-based non-profit whose mission is to “connect churches and non-profit ministries with reputable vendors and resources to save time and money on products, services, and education.”
As an approved vendor, worshipplanning.com provides a discount on all subscription plans to the 2000+ members of the CO+OP. Be sure to check out our vendor page.
We’re excited to offer you a free song for the next 7 days, in partnership with WeAreWorship.com!
This version of the popular song, “We Believe”, is a live recording from one of the writers of the song, Travis Ryan.
CLICK HERE to download the MP3 and the chord chart for FREE! (Oh no! This offer has expired, but we’ll be offering another free song soon. Subscribe to our blog if you don’t already.)
For the next 7 days only, you can download “There Is A Name” from the new Covenant Worship live album, TAKE HEART!
“Recorded last fall at Covenant’s annual worship arts conference, TAKE HEART features worship pastors David and Nicole Binion and team members including Joshua DuFrene and Colin Edge. The four co-wrote the songs featured on TAKE HEART, as well as those on Covenant’s previous albums, Kingdom and Standing.”
(Expired on Wednesday, March 23rd)
If you’re like most churches, volunteers are a vital part of the various ministries that take place in the church. And, if you’re like most church leaders, you highly value your volunteers and want to make it as easy as possible for people in your church to volunteer. Here are 5 different tools that will make your church volunteers’ lives easier:
1. Worship Workshop in A Box from Paul Baloche – Here’s a great resource to help train your worship team! Paul Baloche and his band provide top-notch training for everything from music theory to singing to drumming.
2. Canva – Most churches don’t have a graphic designer on staff, so this is a fantastic tool to help your volunteer graphic designers! They not only provide tutorials for beginners, so anyone can learn to design graphics, but they also provide a way to easily create beautiful presentations and documents. All for FREE!
3. Proclaim – Here’s one for your media team! This church presentation software makes it very easy for your volunteer media team to collaborate on the Sunday media slides from anywhere. It all syncs in the cloud. The software also lets you record the sermon and make it available to the world right after service.
4. Buffer – This one is a great find for your social media volunteers! It’s an app that allows you to easily schedule posts on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google+. Your volunteers can add posts to the queue for the whole week, in one sitting.
5. WorshipPlanning.com – And, of course, this is our favorite tool for church volunteers! (We might be a little biased.) It helps you plan your service with easy-to-use tools that build worship flows, schedule team members, fine tune details on musical selections from your personalized songs library, attach pertinent files, and maintain communication via your preferred channel. You can relax with WorshipPlanning.com because everyone is on the same page!
-Mark Logan
It’s that time of the year! As worship leaders, we’re looking for songs for the Easter season. Here are two places you can find Easter song resources, as well as two great Easter worship playlists on Spotify!
Do you know of other Easter song resources or playlists? Email me: mlogan@worshipplanning.com
-Mark Logan
We are excited to partner with WeAreWorship.com to offer this new congregational song to you as a free download:
Hallelujah (King of Glory) by Dustin Smith
CLICK HERE to download the MP3 and chord chart for free. (Ends Tuesday, January 19th)
Preview of the lyrics:
Your eyes search through the earth
For those who know Your worth
So, God, we welcome You here now
Oh, Living Water flow
Come make Your presence known
Move through Your Church in holy power
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Lift your heads, fling wide you ancient doors
Oh, oh, oh hallelujah, hallelujah
Shout out loud, Oh King of glory come
King of glory come
We are excited to announce that version 4.1.3 of WorshipPlanning.com has been released, which includes integration with Spotify! For those of you wondering exactly what Spotify is, it is a free music streaming service that provides on-demand access to over 16 million songs. That’s right, 16 million songs, on demand, for free. You can learn more about it (and sign up for a free account) here: http://www.spotify.com/us/about/what/
We at WorshipPlanning.com are big fans of Spotify, and thought it would be a huge benefit to worship teams if they could easily access Spotify songs right from WP! Many of you are already familiar with the links to the YouTube music video and Amazon MP3 purchases pages. We have extended these resources of songs to include links to Spotify for on-demand streaming. So you really don’t have to do anything special to start seeing the Spotify links. But in the event you don’t, or if you are curious for more integration details, read on.
Many of you have seen, Planners can add songs to their library by browsing our Top Songs list (around 350 songs). We have updated our top songs list and are in the process of expending it to 1000 songs. For most of those songs, we’ve found the Spotify link and included it with the Top Songs information. Keep in mind that as you add a song manually, WP tries to match your song title against our Top Songs list and gives you the option to automatically add data we’ve collected about each song (author, copyright info, YouTube/Amazon info, and now the Spotify link).
If you’ve taken advantage of our SongSelect integration, many of those songs in your library are already link to Spotify and ready for you to use, right now!
The places where you add or edit song details has a “web” tab that contains the Stream Web Address and Purchase Web Address fields for you to specify where your team can go to watch the YouTube music video or purchase the MP3. It is on this tab we’ve added a field for the Spotify link.
It’s easy to get a Spotify link by right-clicking on a particular song in Spotify and selecting the Copy Spotify URI option. Then just paste it into the appropriate field in the Add/Edit Song window. But remember: This link will usually be automatically fill if you select one of the songs matched from our Top Songs list.
If for some reason you’d rather not have these Spotify links showing up in your church’s WP account, you can turn this feature off in the Church Settings page. With security level 3 (account admin), go to Account >> Church Account Settings >> Edit This Info button. It is a setting at the bottom.
Feel free to post a comment on any feedback you might have. If you need a hand with anything, feel free to log a support ticket with us over at our Customer Support Center.
Happy listening!!
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While we don’t often promote other web sites here on our blog, we recently came across a neat product you need to check out. If anyone is looking for a resource to help schedule your worship and church spaces, look at ministrEspace from Cool Solutions Group. ministrEspace is an easy-to-use, cloud-based service for church scheduling needs. You can coordinate and schedule events, rooms, resources and associated human interactivity for your facility all within ministrEspace. It allows for a quick, easy setup and multiple user access with public and private calendar viewing. They even offer a 30-day FREE trial to get you started! Check it out!
With just a few days left to finalize your Easter service plans, hopefully you already have the details of your worship flow and song arrangements. But perhaps during the planning stage you were trying to remember what the worship service looked like last year. No need to scrounge around your archived emails or send your search dog after year-old Word documents. If you were using WorshipPlanning.com back then, you could access that info with just a couple of clicks.
Since we are all tight on time this week, I’ll cut to the chase:
That’s it! You might have to make sure you are sorting by the date and adjust the number of services that show per page, but it shouldn’t take you long to find the right service (Easter was on April 24 last year, by the way). And, if the service has “Easter” in the message topic, you can find it even faster by typing Easter in the search text box.
The folks here at WorshipPlanning.com hope you have a highly blessed and low stress Easter. As we tweeted earlier today, we pray that you aren’t so busy doing the work of God that you forget to seek the presence of God.
worshipplanning.com is a cloud-based software that makes it easy to organize your service.