Worship Resources



REVIVAL I

MUSIC & WORSHIP RESOURCES

Sunday, August 16, 2009

W. Patrick Alston, Lectionary Team Liturgist

Worship Planning Notes

Consider holding your revival services on nights that persons are most likely to attend and during the time of year when it is easiest for those with children to attend.

This year, consider something new for Revival:

  • For example, host a revival for four days (not necessarily consecutive days) during a particular month and invite all persons who own and work for businesses in your community.
  • Combine a day-time revival with a jobs and/or clothes fair on a Saturday.

  • Another good idea would be to hold a revival featuring only old-time music and old-fashioned preaching and another featuring only modern songs and modern-styled preaching.

Don’t forget, youth and young adults should be heavily involved in your Revival planning. Also, be sure to make CDs or DVDs of your services so that they can be enjoyed by those who are home-bound and to give to visitors to your church. CDs and DVDs are great evangelism tools and marketing tools.

Whatever you do, this year, think out of the box. The world is in need of revival. The need has not changed, but our methods to draw persons to hear the Word of God must be modern.

1. Invocation

Lord, revive us again that your people may rejoice in you. Thank you for showing us your mercy and loving-kindness and for granting us salvation. Create in us clean hearts, O God, and renew a right, preserving, and steadfast spirit within us.

Help us to ever be doers of the Word and not hearers only. By this the world will know that we have been revived. We long for your precepts; in your righteousness, give us renewed life. This is our comfort and consolation in our affliction: that your Word revives us and gives us new life.

2. Hymns and Congregational Songs
(a) We Praise Thee O God. By William P. McKay. Tune, (Revive Us Again) by John J. Husband

(b) Standing on the Promises. By R. Kelso Carter

(c) There Shall Be Showers of Blessings. By Daniel W. Whittle. Tune, (Showers of Blessings) by James McGranahan

3. Spirituals or Traditional Songs
(a) Fix Me, Jesus. Traditional

(b) They That Wait Upon the Lord. Arr. by Oscar Hayes

(c) The Lord Is Blessing Me. Arr. by Mark Hubbard

4. Gospel Songs for Choirs, Ensembles, or Praise Teams
(a) The Blessing of Abraham. By Donald Lawrence

(b) It’s Your Season. By Joe Pace

(c) Rain Lord. By Greg Whitaker

5. Liturgical Dance or Mime Music
(a) Don’t Count Me Out. By Kurt Carr

(b) Days of Elijah. By Robin Mark

6. Anthems
(a) Blessed Are the Meek. By Don Lee White. For SATB Choir

(b) Ho Everyone That Thirsteth. By Will C. McFarlane. For SATB Choir

(c) I’m His Child. By Moses Hogan

7. Modern Songs
(a) The Promise. By Ricky Dillard

(b) Jesus Will. By Malcolm Williams

(c) Renew Me. By Malcolm Williams

8. Song or Instrumental for the Offertory Period
(a) Keeps On Making a Way. By Percy Gray

(b) The Lord Is My Shepherd. By Eddie Robinson

(c) Seasons. By Donald Lawrence

9. Song or Instrumental for the Period of Prayer
(a) Tis So Sweet. By Louisa M. Stead. Tune, (Trust in Jesus) by William J. Kirkpatrick

(b) I Will Trust in the Lord. Traditional. Arr. by Jeffrey Radford and Nolan Williams

(c) Bless Me. By Donald Lawrence

10. Sermonic Selection
(a) You’re an Heir. By Donald Lawrence

(b) Faithful Is Our God. By Hezekiah Walker

(c) He Will Provide. By Charles Nicks

11. Invitational Song or Instrumental
(a) How Can You Recognize a Child of God? By Margaret Pleasant Douroux

(b) I’m a Child of the King. By Harriett E. Buell. Tune by John B. Sumner

(c) It Took a Miracle. By John W. Peterson

12. Benediction Song or Instrumental
(a) Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow. By Isaac Watts. Arr. by Roberta Martin

(b) I Have Never Seen the Righteous Forsaken. By Donald Lawrence

Cites and Additional Information for Music and Material Listed

1. Invocation by W. Patrick Alston.

2. Hymns and Congregational Songs

(a) We Praise Thee O God. By William P. McKay. Tune, (Revive Us Again) by John J. Husband
Location
African American Heritage Hymnal. Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, 2001. #569

African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal. Nashville, TN: The African Methodist Episcopal Church, (1984) second printing 1986. #97

Church of God in Christ. Yes Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. Memphis, TN: Church of God in Christ Pub. Board in association with the Benson Co., 1982. #405

National Baptist Publishing Board. The New National Baptist Hymnal. Nashville, TN: National Baptist Pub. Board, 1981. #18

(b) Standing on the Promises. By R. Kelso Carter
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #373

African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal. #424

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #279

The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1985. #518

The United Methodist Hymnal: Book of United Methodist Worship. Nashville, TN: The United Methodist Publishing House, (1989) twenty-sixth Printing 2003. #374

Yes Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #105

(c) There Shall Be Showers of Blessings. By Daniel W. Whittle. Tune, (Showers of Blessings) by James McGranahan
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #571

African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal. #216

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #274

The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal. #195

Yes Lord! Church of God In Christ Hymnal. #413

3. Spirituals or Traditional Songs

(a)  Fix Me, Jesus. Traditional
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #436

Cleveland, J. Jefferson, and Verolga Nix. Songs of Zion. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1981. #122

(b) They That Wait Upon the Lord. Arr. by Oscar Hayes
Location:
Oscar Hayes & Abundant Life Fellowship Chorale. Simply Determined. Indianapolis, IN: Tyscot, 1993.

(c) The Lord Is Blessing Me. Arr. by Mark Hubbard
Location:
Trotter, Larry & The Sweet Holy Spirit Combined Choir. What’s to Come Is Better Than What’s Been. Indianapolis, IN: Tyscot, 1999.

4. Gospel Songs for Choirs, Ensembles, or Praise Teams
(a) The Blessing of Abraham. By Donald Lawrence
Location:
Donald Lawrence Presents The Tri-City Singers Finale. Brentwood, TN: EMI Christian Music, 2006.

(b) It’s Your Season. By Joe Pace
Location:
Joe Pace Presents: Worship for the Kingdom. Brentwood, TN: EMI Christian Music, 2007.

(c) Rain Lord. By Greg Whitaker
Location:
Love, Ralph E. Sr. Greg Whitaker and the R. E. Love Sr. Traveling Choir. Hamilton, NC: Music Box Studios, 2004.

5. Liturgical Dance or Mime Music
(a) Don’t Count Me Out. By Kurt Carr
Location:
Hawkins, Tramaine. I Never Lost My Praise. New York, NY: Zomba Label Group, 2007.

(b) Days of Elijah. By Robin Mark
Location:
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. This Is Your House. Brentwood, TN: Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, 2003.

6. Anthems
(a) Blessed Are the Meek. By Don Lee White. For SATB Choir
Location:
MAR-VEL
P. O. Box 6082
Chattanooga, TN 37401
Phone: 423-266-7728

Online Location: www.rolandcarter.com/

(b) Ho Everyone That Thirsteth. By Will C. MacFarlane. For SATB Choir
Location:
J. W. Pepper & Sons Incorporated
2480 Industrial Boulevard
Paoli, PA 19301
Phone: 1-800-345-6296

Online location: www.jwpepper.com

(c) I’m His Child. By Moses Hogan
Location:
J. W. Pepper & Sons Incorporated
Phone: 1-800-345-6296
Online location: www.jwpepper.com

7. Modern Songs
(a) The Promise. By Ricky Dillard
Location:
Dillard, Ricky & New Generation Chorale. No Limit. Detroit, MI: Crystal Rose, 2000.

(b) Jesus Will. By Malcolm Williams
Location:
Renew Me. Evergreen Park, IL: Genesis Music Group, 2002.

(c) Renew Me. By Malcolm Williams
Location:
Renew Me. Evergreen Park, IL: Genesis Music Group, 2002.

8. Song or Instrumental for the Offertory Period

(a) Keeps On Making a Way. By Percy Gray
Location:
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. This Is Your House. Brentwood, TN: Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, 2003.

(b) The Lord Is My Shepherd. By Eddie Robinson
Location:
New Mt. Olive Baptist Church
400 NW 9th Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
Phone: 954-463-5126

E-Mail: erobinson@mountolive.org

(c) Seasons. By Donald Lawrence
Location:
Lawrence Donald & The Tri-City Singers. Go Get Your Life Back. Brentwood, TN: EMI Christian Music, 2002.

9. Song or Instrumental for the Period of Prayer

(a) Tis So Sweet. By Louisa M. Stead. Tune, (Trust in Jesus) by William J. Kirkpatrick
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #368

African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal. #440

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #196

The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal. #524

The United Methodist Hymnal. #462

Yes Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #102

(b) I Will Trust in the Lord. Traditional. Arr. by Jeffrey Radford and Nolan Williams
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #391

Yes Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #333

(c) Bless Me. By Donald Lawrence
Location:
Go Get Your Life Back. Brentwood, TN: EMI Christian Music, 2002.

10. Sermonic Selection

(a) You’re an Heir. By Donald Lawrence
Location:
Donald Lawrence Presents The Tri-City Singers Finale. Brentwood, TN: EMI Christian Music, 2006.

(b) Faithful Is Our God. By Hezekiah Walker
Location:
Walker, Hezekiah & LFC. 20/85 The Experience. New York, NY: Verity, 2005.

(c) He Will Provide. By Charles Nicks
Location:
I Really Love the Lord/Wolverine State Baptist. Southfield, MI: Sound Of Gospel, 2003.

11.
Invitational Song or Instrumental
(a) How Can You Recognize a Child of God? By Margaret Pleasant Douroux
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #266

(b) I’m a Child of the King. By Harriett E. Buell. Tune by John B. Sumner
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #125

African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal. #298

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #206

The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal. #468

Yes Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #118

(c) It Took a Miracle. By John W. Peterson
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #155

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #165

The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal. #111

Yes Lord! Church of God in Christ Hymnal. #452

12. Benediction Song or Instrumental

(a) Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow. By Isaac Watts. Arr. by Roberta Martin
Location:
African American Heritage Hymnal. #650

The New National Baptist Hymnal. #529

(b) I Have Never Seen the Righteous Forsaken. By Donald Lawrence
Location:
Lawrence, Donald & The Tri-City Singers. From Tri-City 4.com. Brentwood, TN: EMI Christian Music, 2000.