Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Kingsway Worship Set - February 21, 2010
- Happy Day
- Awesome is the Lord
- Awesome God
- Came to My Rescue
- I Offer All I Am
- Before the Throne of God Above
- How Can I Keep From Singing
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
New Chord Chart Software I'm Using
This is a follow up to something I posted almost exactly a year ago (Read the original post here).
For the past few months I've been searching for a web-based solution to creating and maintaining a database of chord charts and set lists for my worship ministry. I signed up for trial periods on lots of different online worship management sites (planningcenteronline.com, worshipplanning.com, etc.) but could not find a solution that was a good fit for me. Most sites focus primarily on planning worship services: providing tools for creating service orders, picking songs, communicating with musicians, etc. But I really only needed the chord chart creation and management part. Because I'm in a smaller church (with only one band and fairly unstructured service orders), I didn't need all the bells and whistles for service planning that most sites offer.
I did find sites that focus more on chord chart management, like song-manager.com, but none of them were very powerful or user-friendly.
Finally, a couple of weeks ago, I found gospelsoftware.com. They offer 3 services, but you can pick and choose which to sign up for. Their SongBook service is exactly what I've been looking for. Here are some of the features I like:
- It's online! For about four years, I've been using an opensource program called Opensong, which was a simple desktop application. All my songs were stored locally on my office computer, which meant I didn't have access to them unless I was at the office! There were also a few other worship leaders in my church using the same software, meaning we all had different databases. It was a pain having to email zip files of the song folders and trying to keep our databases synced. In fact, we gave up a while ago...
- It outputs nice-looking charts. Many of the other sites I explored had pretty ugly-looking chord charts.
- It has a specific import function for Opensong files. This was probably the biggest selling point for me. Instead of having to reformat every single song, I can import an Opensong file and Gospelsoftware automatically formats it (including all the song metadata, like author, key, copyright info, etc.)
Here are some screenshots:
Friday, February 5, 2010
Kingsway Worship Set - February 7, 2010
- Your Name High
- We Shall Not Be Shaken
- Blessed Be Your Name
- Worthy, You are Worthy
- Let Your Glory Shine (not in playlist)
- Now You Are Glorified (not in playlist)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Kingsway Worship Set - January 31, 2010
*The first two songs are not on the youtube playlist.*
- Be Glorified (D)
- Amazing (D) - Matt Redman from the album Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Glory to God Forever (Bb)
- How Great is Our God (Bb)
- From the Inside Out (Bb)
- I'm Singing (G)
- The Time Has Come (G)
Friday, January 22, 2010
Kingsway Worship Set - January 24, 2010
1. No Not One (A)
2. I'm Singing (G) - new song!
3. Famous One (G)
4. Before the Throne of God Above (C)
5. Your Love Never Fails (G)
6. High and Lifted Up (G)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Kingsway Worship Set - January 17, 2010
We Shall Not Be Shaken - Matt Redman
Enough - Chris Tomlin (Jeremy Camp version)
Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman
Good to Me (I Cry Out) - Craig Musseau
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Came to My Rescue - Marty Sampson
You Alone Can Rescue - Matt Redman
Desert Song - Brooke Fraser
Monday, January 11, 2010
We're finally healthy!
After weeks of being sick and stuck at home, we all woke up this morning feeling good! Mondays are my day off, so we all sat down for a nice breakfast of chocolate croissants, yogurt, and coffee.
Then we decided to get dressed and go to the park. The kids ran into the playground as if it had been years since they'd been set free! We played for a while, then went to the mall to walk around and eat lunch.
Now we're home for naps. Thank you Lord for restoring us!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
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