WorshipTeam.com Blog

WorshipTeam.com is very pleased to announce the release of our new iOS app, for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

• New Mobile/Device Interface: the new app is part of a new BETA look and feel to WorshipTeam.com's complete full featured operation. Highlighting the power of a sleeker user interface along with the iOS platform, this user engagement is taken to a new level.
• Device Support for iOS: Great support for the new Apple apps platform.
• Extending the planning and song access to your WorshipTeam.com account: need to check the upcoming set for the week on your iPhone? Want to contact members of your worship team now? Confirming invitations to your upcoming services? Need to listen to your songs stored on WorshipTeam.com from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch? All this and more happens in the new iOS application from WorshipTeam.com .
• No Extra Charge! that is right, we are extending your WorshipTeam.com access with this app at no extra cost. Any WorshipTeam.com subscriber now has iPhone/iPad/iPod touch access to their WorshipTeam.com accounts and workspace and its included in your current subscription!

WorshipTeam.com is still the only FULLY featured and legal worship planning site with thousands of songs included with your subscription fees at no extra cost. We hope this free iPhone/iPad/iTouch app helps you and your team with their planning and songs experience with Worshipteam.com.

If you are on your iOS device, download and install the app for free right here:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/worshipteam-com/id409144474?mt=8

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there. And YES- your free trial subscription INCLUDES full use of the iPhone, iPad, iTouch app!

WorshipTeam.com has just added three new Christmas songs from by Dunn & Wilt. Dunn & Wilt (Jeremy Dunn and Dan Wilt) are a collaborative writing duo committed to the "artful advancement of spiritual vitality and transformational theology" in the 21st century Church. Engaging the soundscapes and lyricism of the age, their hymns seem respectfully familiar, yet remarkably new. Dunn and Wilt bring an innovative approach to the spiritual song and the modern hymn. In live settings, their fresh approach is a unique theological and sonic voice in today's worship landscape.

• Heaven's King (Alleluia, Christ Is Born) is a modern Christological (Christ-centric) hymn. Expressing the presence of the future, that "Heaven's King will right the world," this hymn will enrich your community with a vital vision of Christ's Kingship. Heaven's King works as a Christmas hymn or as a year round anthem.
• Israel's Hope (On Your Journey To Bethlehem) is a modern Advent hymn. Lyrics like "Truth and Grace, arrayed in straw," infuse the worshipper with a fresh vision of incarnation and our journey to the "House Of Bread" (Bethlehem). This reflective hymn is unique and ideal for Advent worship planning.
• Joyful, Joyful (We Adore Thee) is a fave hymn of Dunn and Wilt. Treated with their signature blend of understated voices, instrumental playgrounds, and sonic tapestries, Joyful is a historic vision of creational theology at its best; postmodernism welcomes this connection of piercing faith with portraits of creation caught in mid-worship.

The songs are full featured with complete lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

WorshipTeam.com has just added all the songs from "Kingdom Rain" by Kim Gentes. Kingdom Rain is a compelling collage of songs by worship leader Kim Gentes. Kim Gentes has equipped and reached many thousands of churches through his ministry, work and worship leading in the last 20 years. He is both a veteran worship leader and a guy who knows the church and worship music at its very heart. Lifting the sounds to life in the studio is producer Brian Thiessen, known for decades of powerful guitar work in Brian Doerksen recordings. Rita Springer (worship leader, Make Us A Prayer), Andy Park (I Want To Know You), Brian Thiessen (producer, guitars), Calum Rees (drummer, Hungry, Come Now Is The Time), Matt Weeks (Bass), Kelly Carpenter (Draw Me Close To You) and others make contributions to this penetrating body of worship music.

The songs are full featured with complete album lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Jeremy Dunn

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

WorshipTeam.com has just added all the songs from "Desert Rain" by Paul Wilbur. Recorded LIVE IN Israel, Desert Rain is a vibrant worship experience featuring the best Messianic worship songs of our day. Paul Wilbur and over 5000 worshipers gathered to sing over the nation of Israel and pray for healing rain that would bring new life to dry hearts and desert lands.

The songs are full featured with complete album lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

WorshipTeam.com has just added the songs from "Real Life" by Lincoln Brewster. Lincoln Brewster's highly anticipated 2010 Release REAL LIFE is a worship album that brings a breath of fresh air to the real worshiper. The album has 10 new songs, including "Whom Shall I Fear" with Kari Jobe from Gateway Worship.

The songs are full featured with complete album lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

WorshipTeam.com has just added all the songs from "And If Our God Is For Us" by Chris Tomlin. Chris Tomlin returns with his much-anticipated new album And If Our God Is For Us..., which features the new single "I Will Follow" and a new studio recording of "Our God," the anthemic declaration of faith. The new songs on And If Our God Is For Us... came from Chris's experience as a worship leader over the years, and currently at Passion City Church in Atlanta, led by communicator and pastor, Louie Giglio.

The songs are full featured with complete album lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

"Yahweh" from Hillsong Chapel contains organic and contemplative versions of top Hillsong songs including "Mighty To Save", "Hosanna", "From The Inside Out", and the title track "Yahweh".

"See The Risen Lord" is a collection of the most current congregational songs from Vineyard Music, Verietal Records and Vineyard Music UK. Songs include "Send Us", "Carry Me", "Only Your Love" and more.

The songs are full featured with complete album lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

Andy Park leads a new CD full of his most popular songs done in Spanish, entitled "Maravilloso Dios". This is 13 very well known songs, including El Espíritu Del Santo Dios / The Spirit Of The Sovereign Lord, Maravilloso Dios / Wonder Working God, En Secreto / In The Secret, Veo Al Señor / I See The Lord, Bendito Tu Nombre Señor / Blessed Be The Name, Aun Asi Te Alabare / Yet I Will Praise, and many others.

The songs are full featured with complete album lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

WorshipTeam.com includes a number of spanish songs, and over 5600 songs in total (and growing weekly).

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

Friends,

The webcast that we did on August 31 is now archived on the web for you to view anytime. We will keep it online for the next 30 days for those who missed the webcast. You can view it here:
http://video.worshipstream.com/channel/worshipteam

For those tuned in live for the event, Kim apologizes for the delay in beginning the webcast. We had some non-technical issues that had me unable to begin at the originally scheduled time. Since we know that some people were logging in for that specific time, we have placed the web cast on archive for those who were on a tight schedule and couldn't wait to view the session. Again, you can now view it at:
http://video.worshipstream.com/channel/worshipteam

Sincerely
Kim Gentes
Worshipteam.com

WorshipTeam.com Friends,

Some great news! Coming up on August 31 we will be having an online Web Session (hosted by our friends at WorshipStream.com) that will be all about WorshipTeam.com and some exciting news for our churches and users!

You can join us at online at:
http://video.worshipstream.com/channel/worshipteam

The event will be Tuesday, August 31 at 4:00pm CST (2:00pm Pacific)! It is completely FREE, and is especially for all our WorshipTeam.com users and churches. We will keep the broadcast brief, so it won't take up much of your time. We will cover:

• Some tips/tricks with making the most of WorshipTeam.com
• Exciting new content we are adding (more songs, more music companies involved)
• WorshipTeam.com V2!! Yes, we are hard at work on a very exciting set of comprehensive additions and improvements to Worshipteam.com. You get a sneak Peak!! Come check it out!

Finally, I want to encourage you to please check out our friends at WorshipStream.com , who are doing this webstream for us. If you have a church who is thinking about broadcasting /streaming your church services I'd encourage you to check them out. You can see the small graphic and link at the bottom of this blog post for more information.

Hope to see you online on August 31 at: http://video.worshipstream.com/channel/worshipteam

blessings
Kim Gentes

Vicky Beeching is one of just a few prominent women worship leaders in the modern worship genre. Her latest CD "Eternity Invades" just came out and includes a wonderful collection of well written songs.

At the same time, Jonathan Stockstill and his band "Deluge" have released their latest project "Unshakable", which includes some fresh songs with exciting arrangements for modern worship churches.

Both these releases have come from the worship publisher/label Integrity Music, which has been actively resourcing the church with great music for years. "Eternity Invades" and "Unshakable" have just been added to WorshipTeam.com. The songs are full featured with complete album lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

Like every songwriter, worship leader and artist whose songs are in Worshipteam.com, not only are these worship leaders/writers licensing the use of their songs into the local churches music teams by doing this- but at Worshipteam.com we are committed to supporting them by sending all the appropriate royalties back to them. Nearly 50% of all the fees collected at Worshipteam.com flow back to the people who own and create the songs that are included in Worshipteam.com!

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

Brian & Jenn Johnson and Bethel Church has been a recent surge of new, fresh music for churches around the world.

WorshipTeam.com has just signed Brian & Jenn Johnson on as a participating publisher and record company in its service. This means that all their songs are immediately authorized for use in Worshipteam.com. You can immediately see that several of their songs have just been added in the Worshipteam.com song database and more will be added in the next few weeks.

We are excited to continue to work with some of the latest, vibrant worship resource publishers, record companies and ministries anywhere. Welcome, Brian & Jenn and Bethel Church music lovers!

blessings
Kim Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.

Simpleville Music is the publishing company for a lot of great music. From platinum hits like "I Can Only Imagine" from MercyMe to worship favorites like "Cannons" from Phil Wickham, Simpleville has a treasure of great songs that local churches love in their worship repertoire.

WorshipTeam.com has just signed Simpleville Music on as a participating publisher in its service. This means that all Simpleville songs are immediately authorized for use in Worshipteam.com. We will begin immediately adding songs from MercyMe, Phil Wickham and other Simpleville writers to our service so that you can access them for your weekly planning of services, with correct chord charts, lyrics and integrated audio, allowing you to check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it. You should start to see Simpleville songs appear in the Worshipteam.com song database in the next few weeks as we add the songs.

Like every songwriter, worship leader and artist whose songs are in Worshipteam.com, not only are the they licensing the use of their songs into the local churches music teams by doing this- but at Worshipteam.com we are committed to supporting them by sending all the appropriate royalties back to them. Nearly 50% of all the fees collected at Worshipteam.com flow back to the people who own and create the songs that are included in Worshipteam.com!

blessings
Kim Gentes

Here is a video of Danny Mullins, a worship leader in Arizona recorded this video of how his church uses WorshipTeam.com for us to share with you.

Thanks Danny!

If you have never tried WorshipTeam.com before, you can try it for FREE for a month, just go here : http://www.worshipteam.com/try

If you are a current user of WorshipTeam.com, let us know how you are using the service. We'd love to hear your story too!

blessings
Kim Gentes
WorshipTeam.com

Rita Springer has been a voice passion and a trail-blazer for the modern worship/artist songwriters for nearly 20 years. Her profoundly honest lyrics, infectious melodies and amazing voice have hallmarked hundreds of events, dozens of recordings and spread the gospel of the Kingdom from Africa to America (in ways both musical and practical).

Rita has been a precious friend and mentor to many leaders, and I have been thankful to have had the opportunity to get to know her and call her a friend.

We recently had the opportunity to visit with Rita, and she graciously encouraged us to add all of her albums, songs and charts to Worshipteam.com. This means that all of Rita's songs are being added to the song database at WorshipTeam.com, so that churches everywhere can use her songs instantly as they plan their services.

Immediately, we have added several of her CD releases, including "Effortless", "I Have To Believe", "All I Have", and "Created to Worship". The entire library of songs from those albums are now online at WorshipTeam.com. Songs are full featured with complete album lyrics, chord charts and full length audio.

Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

Like every songwriter, worship leader and artist whose songs are in Worshipteam.com, not only are the they licensing the use of their songs into the local churches music teams by doing this- but at Worshipteam.com we are committed to supporting them by sending all the appropriate royalties back to them. Nearly 50% of all the fees collected at Worshipteam.com flow back to the people who own and create the songs that are included in Worshipteam.com!

So support Rita, and come try out some of her amazing songs in Worshipteam.com!

blessings
Kim Gentes

Many of our churches love the away time feature, which lets users indicate future dates when they will not be available for scheduling. Now you can also view the away time of your group by seeing it graphically on your calendar. Here is how:

First, go to your calendar and notice the small checkbox at the bottom called "Show Away Time":

Now, select the checkbox and you will see the away time appear as colored bars across the effected days as below.

You can see which people are specifically away in any specific day of the colored bars by simply mousing-over the day you are interested in.

We think this feature greatly enhances the ease-of-use for those who are planning events and scheduling on the calendar. Let us know what you think.

Blessings
Kim Gentes
Worshipteam.com

ProPresenter Presentation Software is nicely done Mac display software for churches. ProPresenter users can access Worshipteam.com songs quickly and import them into their ProPresenter song library.

MAIN STEP 1: Export from WorshipTeam.com to a ProPresenter readable Song file format- Follow these simple steps to export your Worshipteam.com songs into ProPresenter readable song file formaat. Worshipteam.com supports this easily as follows:

1. Simply log into Worshipteam.com and go to view any set you wish to export (including all the songs in the set) to ProPresenter.
2. Select the "Export" icon from the icons at the top of the set.
3. A dialog will appear for exporting. Select the "ProPresenter" radio option
4. Click "Export" button.
5. Worshipteam.com will generate a file of your set that is in a compatible import file for ProPresenter. Save that file where you can find it from ProPresenter.

MAIN STEP 2: Import the Song files into ProPresenter -

1. Open ProPresenter.
2. Select the menu option from "File > Import > Import Presentation" (as below)

3. Select the name of the song file that you exported from WorshipTeam.com in the above section. Click "Choose".

4. On the Import Behavior dialog, select "Import into Library Only" (once in the library, you can reuse these songs in any presentation you later develop).
   Choose "Paragraph Break" as the delimiter.
5. When you are ready, click "Continue".

6. The songs will be quickly imported and placed in the ProPresenter song library.
7. You will now find your songs in your ProPresenter song library!

Enjoy the power of Worshipteam.com songs in your ProPresenter display presentations.

Blessings!
Kim Gentes
WorshipTeam.com

One the great features of Worshipteam.com is its ability to generate instant Powerpoint slides for you of the set of songs you desire. While many churches are using display presentation software to enhance their worship, Powerpoint is still the number 1 choice as the method of displaying lyrics and sermon notes in churches. Obviously this is due to relative low cost and familiarity of the software for local churches and their staffs. That said, if you are using Powerpoint in your services, Worshipteam.com is here to make your job as easy as one (1) single click.

Here is the simple method of creating those Powerpoints, pre-formatted and ready to roll for Sunday morning.

1. Login to Worshipteam.com. Find the set that you wish to create a Powerpoint presentation of. You should see the set player like as below here:

2. Select the "Export" button at the top right portion of the set player. This will launch the "Export Options" dialog. You will see the export dialog as shown here :

3. In my example, I chose "Yellow" font and "Blue" background. I left the other options defaulted. You can choose whatever you would like for the options. Click the "Export" button on the lower right. A Powerpoint file (PPT file type) will be downloaded to your computer.

4. Open the file and view your Worshipteam.com set that has been made into a basic Powerpoint presentation. It should look good and be formatted with good lyric breaks similar to below:

Customize the presentation according to your local church needs and use. The goal of the Powerpoint presentation generator in Worshipteam.com is to make quick Powerpoints for you, that you can customize or use as you wish. The songs will be ordered in the same order you have them in the set, and each song will have its song sections ordered in the same way you arranged that song, allowing you to move straight forward through the presentation, as long as your song arrangement matches the way you want the lyrics presented to your congregation.

Blessings
Kim Gentes
Worshipteam.com

EasyWorship is one the simpler display software choices available for churches. It provides many good basic functions without a lot of power-tools for advanced media and display. EasyWorship users can access Worshipteam.com songs in two different ways.

OPTION 1 is available to EasyWorship users who want to import songs from Worshipteam.com and edit them one at a time to customize the song as they import it.

OPTION 2 is available to EasyWorship users who want to import an entire group of songs from Worshipteam.com and batch process them into their EasyWorship database.

Each of the above options are explained below, depending what your situation is.

Before discussing each option for EasyWorship, you should understand that EasyWorship does not have an import that allows you to bring in multiple songs directly with its main program. In the EasyWorship program itself it does allow you to import one song at a time via the EasyWorship "New Song" function (this is discussed below as "OPTION 1"). However, you can import multiple songs outside of the main program, if you have their *EZconverter* utility to import batches of songs (this is discussed below as "OPTION 2"). EasyWorship also hides their database converter from users and you must personally request it to get it. Because they hide this from users, don't support importing inside the main program and don't officially support the importer program, their song database functions are least useful of all of the song display programs.

That said, we provide a lot of good information here on a couple straightforward methods for getting your worshipteam.com songs into EasyWorship.

Exporting your songs from Worshipteam.com -- Regardless of how you want to import the songs in EasyWorship (either OPTION 1 or 2), exporting the set of songs from Worshipteam.com is the same. Here is how your export your songs from WorshipTeam.com for EasyWorship use:

1. Log into Worshipteam.com and go to view any set you wish to export (including all the songs in the set) to EastyWorship.
2. Select the "Export" icon from the icons at the top of the set.
3. A dialog will appear for exporting. Select the "EastyWorship" radio option, and click "Export" button.
4. Worshipteam.com will generate a ZIP file of your set of songs. Save that ZIP file where you can find it.
5. Go the ZIP file and extract the contents of it (several files) into a folder that only contains those files (nothing else). This will make it simple to know what songs you are importing, and it won't confuse the EasyWorship song importer (OPTION 2), which will import every song it sees in a directory.

Your songs are now exported from Worshipteam.com and are ready for EasyWorship to import them.

There are two options you now have to import the songs into EasyWorship:

OPTION 1. Import single songs into EasyWorship--- In this scenario, you will import songs from Worshipteam.com, one at a time, into Easy Worship. Here is how that works:

1. Open the EasyWorship program.
2. Select the "Songs>New Song" option from the command menu.
3. This will bring up the "New Song" dialog.
4. On that dialog, select the "Import new song" button to the right of the Song Title field (next to the I-info button).
5. When you select that button, browse to the location of your songs. And choose the song you wish to import.
6. The song will be loaded and you can review it and click OK when done.
7. Do this with each new song you want import into EasyWorship.

OPTION 2. Batch Import a lot of songs into EasyWorship---

Before Batch Importing songs into EasyWorship You Must Acquire the song database importer for EasyWorship. You can get the EasyWorship ezConvert program from EasyWorship technical support directly. NOTE: they did not provide this by default to all their users. You must request it directly from them, which they communicate here:
http://www.easyworship.com/support/kb/index.php?ToDo=view&questId=97&catId=2
It is also found online as well at :
http://www.onlinemmi.com/eyedrops/EasyWorship/EZconvert.htm
where a user describes how it operates. (some good information there). Once you have the ezConvert.exe program from EasyWorship, follow the steps below and import the songs into EasyWorship.

1. Make sure EasyWorship main program is CLOSED (shut down).
2. Launch the ezConvert.exe program you acquired. (you may get a security warning, select RUN if asked)
3. You will get a EasyWorship Conversion Utility (we have tested version v1.6 of the utility and it worked on both EasyWorship 2007 and EasyWorship 2009). Click "Next" on the first screen of the converter wizard.
4. On the second screen, select "CCLI Text Files" as the "Conversion type:".
5. Browse to the directory that contains your song files by selecting the "..." button next to the "File(s) to convert:" field.
6. Browse to the directory that contains EasyWorship database files by selecting the "..." button next to the "Root EasyWorship directory" field. You want to select a directory that contains a "data" directory itself. It might be something like "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Softouch\EasyWorship\Default\Databases", depending on your computer configuration. You should see the options looking similar to below

1. Select "Next" and the songs in the directory will be imported into the EasyWorship database.
2. Once the program is done it will tell you how many songs it processed.

You should now be able to open up EasyWorship and see all the songs you exported from Worshipteam.com in the EasyWorship song database.

No matter what display presentation software you are going to use, exporting the songs from Worshipteam.com is easy and quick. Unfortunately, despite its name, importing songs into EasyWorship is not as straightforward as other presentation software programs. However, once you have them in the database, you should be ready to create your presentations in EasyWorship.

Blessings
Kim Gentes
Worshipteam.com

"Heaven Came Down" is a brilliant new worship album from Marie Barnett (author of the song Breathe) and her husband John Barnett. All twelve of these new acoustic-roots styled songs from this album are now online at Worshipteam.com. The songs, with full lyrics, chord charts and audio, are all online and available for any subscriber to use instantly.

Some beautifully renditioned songs from this veteran Vineyard worship writer and leader, we encourage you to check them out (click on the New Songs tab in the songs section). We hope you enjoy them. If you haven't tried WorshipTeam.com, you can try it out for one month free and enjoy these songs from Marie Barnett along with 5,000 other top worship songs from all the top publishers and independents.