New tools help plan a worship service

1. This makes Worship Planning easier.

2. There are some new tools for planning worship services. Online planning software Hardware display units (performance stations) samepagemusic.com

3. The software and hardware work together to make it easier to plan worship services. The softwareorganizes all your songs, schedules your services, informs your volunteers, and tracks all your equipment and rooms. The hardwaredisplays your music, and mixes the music for each musician, individually samepagemusic.com

4. Scheduling a series of services or programs is easy after some set-up (loading your songs, volunteers, rooms, equipment, etc.) The software keeps all your songs in one list so you can sort them, find them, make playlists, and re-use music programs The software even tracks the availability of each volunteer so scheduling around work schedules and vacations is a snap. samepagemusic.com

5. The software talks to the hardware so everyone has the music they need. The hardware displays the music that the software sends it. There’s no need to print, copy, distribute, retrieve paper sheet music. Paper sheet music is eliminated. A little more detail samepagemusic.com

6. Use the software to pick your songs, schedule people, equipment and rooms, and notify participants (volunteers, musicians, etc.) Choose songs from the songlist. Add intros, breaks, benedictions, etc. Create entire services. Use the calendar function to schedule rooms, people, equipment, etc. samepagemusic.com

7. The software stores everything you load. All your songs, playlists, equipment, instruments are placed in a searchable database. Type in a song name or a song’s theme and the software finds it. Everyone’s contact info is there too. You have instant access to everyone’s contact info stored in a secure password-protected database. No need to hunt through address books, post-it notes or separate databases. Lay out each room and piece of equipment. Assign each musician to their instruments and parts. You can even assign who sits where! Assign other roles too, such as nursery duty, ushers, and parking attendants. samepagemusic.com

8. With everything stored and searchable, it’s easy to plan a service. Choose the songs you want from the songlist, put them into a playlist, add other things such as prayers and sermons to the event list, assign who does what, and you’ve planned out an entire service. Each participant types in their availability. When you schedule practices and events, you can see who is available and who isn’t. Press a button and the software sends an email to everyone telling them what their role is and when all the practices and events are. They respond by accepting or rejecting the schedule. So you know who is coming and who needs replacing. Everyone is notified ! samepagemusic.com

9. The software and hardware are integrated. Plan your service or program with the software and then synchronize it with the hardware. DISPLAY All the songs in your playlists are displayed on the performance station. Everything is in sync. PLAN samepagemusic.com

10. The hardware display units (performance stations) are linked so they are all in sync. Everyone has the right songs and right song parts for the performance. Stations can have personal monitor mixing built in. samepagemusic.com

11. Are you a worship leader? Be sure to watch this story about you. A video tale about you samepagemusic.com

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