Helpful Websites*

• Reawaken Hymns—Nathan Drake has a variety of resources (free and paid options) for your church needs. If you’re looking for contemporary recordings of hymns that keep the vocal line intact and guitar-friendly charts to go with them, this is the site for you! He also has ambient pad files and and eBook of 85 Worship Elements for free download as well.

• Hymnary—Search hymns by scriptures and themes.

• Word to Worship—Search contemporary songs by lectionary, scriptures, and themes.

• Praise Charts—Find chord charts, sheet music, orchestrations, and more for thousands of worship songs and hymns. Search songs by title, artist, or CCLI number, or browse by theme. They also have free devotionals and teaching tools, such as Harmony Helper.

• The Worship Initiative—Find tutorials, chord charts, devotionals, and more to help you and/or your team. They have a paid subscription for full access, but a lot of helpful free resources as well, including a place to search for worship songs by scripture.

• CCLI or Christian Copyright Licensing International—CCLI offers licensing of over 600,000 songs. Most churches need licensing unless they are only using public domain hymns. The CCLI SongSelect database give you access to lyrics, chord charts, and leadsheets and vocal parts (depending on tier). You can search for songs by title, artist, or theme, or use their Liturgy Planning page to search by the lectionary. SongSelect integrates with Planning Center Services and ProPresenter 7 to make it easier to share songs with your worship team and display lyrics. (For more information on Planning Center and ProPresenter 7, visit my tech page here.)

• One License—Offers licensing for “thousands of congregational hymns, songs, and service music from today's top liturgical music publishers to use in worship aids, service bulletins, and projections to inspire congregational singing” per their website. If your church includes newer hymns and choral anthems that are not in the CCLI database, One License is likely the entity to license those songs.

• Verseable—A new website built for worship leaders that integrates with Planning Center Services to allow you to search your own song library for song lyrics that fit themes and scriptures. Check out the demo on their website!

• Transpose—A Chrome extension that allows you to change the key of YouTube videos, so you can hear a recording in the key you need for worship.

• Easy Choir Music—A great resource for a variety of choir music, drama scripts, and more.

• J. W. Pepper—Browse a large variety of music for church choirs by time of year, voicing, and more.

• Liturgical Planning Aides—If you are new to worship planning for traditional services, Morning Star Publishing has an online database of hymns and anthems you can browse, and there are various books with hymns and anthems for each Sunday according to the lectionary available on these sites: Church Publishing Incorporated, Augsberg Fortess, and Cokesbury. Some denominations put out their own book, so checking with your denomination can also be a great way to get started.

• First 15—A great daily devotional with accompanying scripture, guided prayer, and worship song. They have an app version as well. This devotional has encouraged me and also introduced me to new worship songs.

• More Tech Websites—Browse additional tech-related websites on my Tech Support Page.

*I will be adding more websites. Do you have a favorite web tool that I’ve missed? Send me a message, and I’ll add it to the list!