Jesus Christ is the light of the world (echo)
The light no darkness can overcome (echo)
Stay with us Lord for it is evening (echo)
And the day is almost over (echo)
Let your light scatter the darkness (echo)
And shine on your people here (echo)
Song form: echo
Composer Name: Benjamin Leese
Lyricist Name: ancient text
Year Composed: 2008
Place of Origin: York Springs, Pennsylvania
Biblical Reference: John 8:12
Copyright Holder Name: Benjamin Leese
Terms of Use: share and share alike
Here's a video of Jesus Chris is the Light of the World:
This song is composed and shared by the Taize Community.
The Lyrics translate to: "Give Peace to every Heart."
This is a setting of a Sanctus composed in 2003 by the Iona Community in Scotland. Here's a tip for leading this echo paperlessly: be sure to invite the group to follow you with a clear gesture. The echo comes quite quickly, so be ready to cue them to avoid confusion.
Additional info:
Copyright Holder Name: © WGRG The Iona Community (Scotland). Used by permission of GIA Publications, Inc.
Terms of Use: Must purchase a OneLicense.net License to reprint music in order of worship, or purchase the resource in which it is published.
Print Source: Sing the Faith, #2256 Publisher Name: Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, Westminster John Knox Press. Purchase this book from Amazon here.
Year of Publication: 2003
This song is an example of teaching music for group singing without the use of books or projectors, recorded at the All Saints Company conference "Music that Makes Community," Los Angeles, October, 2008.
This song was composed by Kerri Meyer in San Francisco, CA. This video of 'There Is Enough' is taught by AnnaMarie Hoos, who learned it from Kerri Meyer. The melody was adapated from a Peter Mayer refrain, and Kerri Meyer composed the descant.
The lyrics are:
There is enough!
There is enough!
There is enough, oh,
Enough and some to share!
Sheet music can be found in Singing In Community, our latest songbook published by Augsburg Fortress.
Here's an audio clip of Kerri leading this song at the Musical Text Kitchen in San Francisco in October of 2014.
Here's a video of AnnaMarie Hoos leading this song at MMC at The Bishop's Ranch in January, 2015.
Sylvia Miller-Mutia created this song at a Music that Makes Community Gathering in January 2015. While created as a song for people to sing in procession to the table for communion, it is easily adapted to serve as an invitation or transition into any part of the liturgy.
Here's a video of Sylvia leading her song Come to the Feast at Music that Makes Community at The Bishop's Ranch in January 2015:
This lyrics of this setting of Psalm 65 is just a single word: silence.
Dumiyah (Heb. silence)
Tibi silens laus (Lat. For you, silence is praise)
Words and music by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
©2013 Worldmaking.net (ASCAP)
Licensed via CCLI, OneLicense.net and Worldmaking.net.
Sheet music available in the "Our Roots are In You" collection at PsalmImmersion.com.
Part 1: Into your hands I place my life
Part 2: Oh, loving faithful God
Part 3: Oh, my life is yours
Words and music by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
©2007 Augsburg Fortress Publishing
To be faithful with what I've been given
To be faithful with who I am
To be faithful with how I am living
I (we) pray to be faithful
Words and music by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
© 2004 This Here Music/Worldmaking.net (ASCAP)
Licensed via CCLI, OneLicense.net and Worldmaking.net
Sheet music available in the "Worldmaking" collection at Worldmaking.net.
This song was composed by Donald Fishel and is available in printed for in My Heart Sings Out from Church Publishing.
Here's a link to an audio recording of Emily Scott singing The Light of Christ, then giving some suggestions for how to lead it paperlessly, from the resource she's compiled for song leaders at St. Lydia's in Brooklyn, NY.