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November 2003
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2004 Diary - Roadshows booking
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New Christmas Resource CD
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Get into the Word - update
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FlexImage - worship projection
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Welcome to the Family
Worship newsletter, especially if you are a new
subscriber. Family Worship Resources is a
non-profit organisation, based in London, UK and
exists to provide songs, teaching materials and
other resources to help the church to worship
together.
We've had a busy 2003, and have
visited many different churches and parts of the
country with the "FW Roadshow", where our team of
adults and children lead an all-age service,
featuring songs, dances, drama, multimedia, and an
accessible all-age talk. If you are based in the
UK or Ireland, and are interested in booking a
roadshow for 2004, then do drop us an email for
more details, or check out the Roadshow page on
the website.
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If you're anything like me,
you get depressed at the commercial onset of
Christmas seeming to get earlier every year - the
decorations went up in my local shopping centre in
mid October this year! So, I hope you'll forgive
me mentioning Christmas in early November, but I
did just want to let you know about a brilliant
new resource CD now available that may really help
in your preparations for Christmas services this
year.
Called Re.Source@Christmas, and
produced by CPO (Christian Publicity
Organisation), the CD features a number of
excellent contemporary Christmas songs, including
our own "Peace Child", alongside a new song, "It's
a boy", sung by Cliff Richard. The CD also
features animated movies to some of the songs that
can be played on a PC and displayed via a data
projector. Then there are drama scripts, quizzes,
multimedia content (including some brilliant
nativity images), Christmas clip art, sermon
outlines & stories, and links to useful web
sites.
We think this is the best new
Christmas resource we've seen in a long time, and
are sure that it will be a great inspiration for
your Christmas planning this year. You can order
securely from the FW online shop - follow the link
on the left for "Christmas"
Do also check
out our Peace Child Christmas cards and
interactive CD - they were a great success last
year, so do place your order as soon as possible.
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This week (from 5 to 9
November) I'll be in Romania as part of a team
working with Graham Kendrick for a national
worship conference, the first of its kind to be
held in the country. I'll be taking a number of
workshops on all-age and children's worship, and
teaching a number of songs.
If you are able
to pray, then I'd really appreciate your
partnership, and (Internet access permitting),
will be posting prayer updates, as the conference
progresses, in the FW online discussion
forum.
Having visite Rwanda last year,
which had a profound impact on me, Romania is
another country known for its orphans, and it's my
heart and prayer that all children would discover
the love of a heavenly Father. Thanks for praying.
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Since the FW site started
nearly 5 years ago, it's always been our policy to
make the songs freely available online - audio
files, lyrics, guitar chords, sheet music, and so
on. As well as the online downloads, our "song by
email" facility has proved very popular, and
following a change of web server, we've recently
re-launched the service and will be adding a
number of new songs over the coming
months.
Opinion is divided sometimes on the
issue of whether worship music should be free. Of
course songwriters, and others involved in
producing recordings, songbooks, etc. should be
able to earn a living if that is their vocation.
On the other hand, many people are very
uncomfortable in the church with the apparent
commercialisation of the worship music "industry".
While we have chosen to make our own songs
freely available, I would never criticise anyone
for choosing to charge for online song downloads,
or for insisting on people buying a CD or songbook
- every writer and music company has to make their
own decision about the right thing to do, and the
best way to fulfil the calling that God has for
their ministry.
I am always interested to
hear other people's views on this subject, and
particularly at the moment, as we are starting to
consider plans for a new website dedicated to
children's and all-age worship songs in the UK
(ie. covering songs from all UK writers, not just
our own) so if you have any thoughts on the issue,
then do drop me an email or post in the FW
forum.
In the meanwhile, do feel free to
continue downloading our songs. One plea from our
record company (who kindly put up with my maverick
insistence on making the songs freely available!)
- if you do use the songs in worship, please
remember to record them on your church annual
return to the Church Copyright Licence scheme
(www.ccli.com). Thanks
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Just to keep you posted on
our latest recording - "Get into the Word",
featuring 10 great new songs on the theme of the
Bible. We had hoped to release the CD around now,
but due to an exciting development, the release
will be delayed until next year.
The reason
is that our distributors, ICC Records, are keen to
release the CD alongside a teaching book, which
will be published by a separate major UK book
publisher, which will give the CD and book a much
greater potential for wider
distribution.
We'll publish more details as
soon as we have them, and in the meanwhile, please
join us in praying for the potential of the new
songs and the book - we are hoping that it will
stimulate many children into reading the Bible
with enthusiasm for themselves.
In the
meanwhile, you can still hear a preview of the
title track, "Get into the Word", by clicking the
link below.
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