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Putting a worship team together

Some of this article I flatly disagreed with, but there were still several important suggestions in it, so I include it: LINK

Finding Music on the Web

The top-rated music web services are reviewed with links here: LINK

Free Motion Backgrounds Loops

If you love a good powerpoint picture, you will LOVE the looped moving backgrounds! FREE! LINK

Email in bulk to your members

Do you want to "broadcast email" to all of those who sign up for a church newsletter. Why spend money on snailmail when you can email in one minute all of your membership? $15 a month buys the under 500 member list from Constant Contact: LINK

If you need a remote control for powerpoint

I use a remote for powerpoint every week in the service, and this little one is an example of what works well: LINK

Welcome to our church! A great video

I take this out on Sunday morning, and I motivate myself with it!

Free Children's Worship Bulletin Template

Lifeway offered an excellent colorful template for children's worship bulletin shells: LINK

Music in the Worship Service

Bob Kauflin offers some sane and helpful comments on worship wars that have been so devastating:

Worship Style and Technique

CT offers an interesting post that had excellent info. At some points too technical for me, but very valuable: LINK

Authentic Worship

The people at Faith Highway, who produce some of the best material I have seen for promotion of a church (though not without substantial cost) have put up a short video that I think is asking good questions! LINK

Excellent collection of Bible Places Photos (some free)

Power point slides of Bible places can really enhance a message or worship setting. This site offers excellent views as well as some ideas as to how to use them. Obviously, they are hoping you will buy some of the CD images, but the site is helpful for many reasons - including the small introductory remarks of a site next to the photo, and especially the linked bibliographies to serious works about the sites. LINK

Even a Pastor needs to Smile!

For those who are really unsure about your worship team, take a minute and smile at this one:

Looking for Christmas Music Resources (Lyrics, Midis, etc)

A good but small collection of Christmas music resources are available at: LINK

Download Power Points of Your Songs for Worship

A collection exceeding 750 songs, including hymns and contemporary songs have been power pointed by a ministry that offers them online: LINK

Video Documentary Creation for Worship and Instruction

I have used information like what is contained in this article to produce "shorts" for the church. One use in particular was to add a testimony into a message. It was tight, clean and predictable on time, which is what the "live" version would not have been. I was especially moved in a service when I saw appear on screen several Senior Adults who had been "cut in" to the service to share a compelling example of what was being taught. Here is some of the planning info to make a video:  LINK

Technical Sides of Worship

This CT article was helpful, and I would urge you to pay attention to the resources section at the bottom of the article, where several important resources are featured: LINK.

An Excellent Christmas Reading

John Piper posted this in 2006, but it contained something I found moving. The short post was a "reading" for Christmas: LINK

Power Point Slide: Great Collection (but not free)

One of the best collections I have seen on the web is a site that has been developing power point slides for several years. They are membership based, and require an annual fee for free access to the whole library. It is worth a look if you really want the professional look: LINK

Ideas for Worship Site

One of the sites that often posts interesting ideas and problems solvers to the modern worship team leader is here: LINK

Free Lyrics to Christian Songs

Don't let their racy looking energetic home page scare you off. If you need the lyrics, they may have them FREE: LINK