It is one of my hopes/visions as music director to use, more consistantly, the text (lyrics) from The Hymnal 1982 (more) in our worship services. "How is this different from what we're doing now?", you might ask. Well, we have not been regularly using the '82 Hymnal text directly but have been using the Hymn text derived from CCLI. This has not been an ideal scenario.
My vision is that we be very consistant in both our use of the Hymnal and projection of the text from this Hymnal verbatim. I would like to do this to ensure that the congregation member who just wants to view the projected slides and those in the congregation who would like to read the music from the Hymnal can stay in "perfect harmony"! Recently we've made progress to help accomplish this - but we still need your help/support.
Some 'Success Factors' for this vision include:
- Making sure the music team has access to the Hymal - please keep a copy at home
- Project the Hymn number and verse numbers in the service slides
- Encourage the use of the Hymnal to those at church - having ushers handout Hymnals
- Remind the music director that this is important
Music Team Members: Here's a great site reference for the The Hymnal 1982 that inclues searchable text and midi files of the hymns themselves - please book mark it as it's great place to go if you don't have you hymnal handy!
"More than music we're a team" - Saddleback Church mantra.
2 comments:
Amen and Amen. Also, I think we need to coordinate with the ushers in providing the hymnals to people. So far we've just plopped the box near the aisle. We need to make sure people even know it's available. Putting the hymn number up on the slide helps a lot too. Good work!
Thanks Katrina, I've asked the ushers to do just that. -Scott
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