In Fellowship Church we use a projector for the liturgy song selections in the worship services. Some have asked how much work lies behind the Sunday presentation....
The power-point team (h/t Sandra, who has spent countless hours creating these slides) has generated a library of 1672 separate slides of the Psalms, Hymns and Augment. There is now a complete set for all (except the Augment, which is still a work in progress, as is placing newly revised Psalms, as they come available, into the library, replacing the old.) Typical Sunday services require a PowerPoint presentation with 70-80 slides (Lord's Supper services call for several more). The process is as follows.
jvp puts the Sunday liturgy into Foldershare (a filesharing program) by 8:00 PM Thursday (he strives for earlier in the day). He notifies the team. ss assembles the appropriate slides from the library into the power-point template and puts that into FS. She notifies the team. fl prepares slides for the liturgy and inserts that into the template at all the appropriate places and puts that into FS. He notifies the team. (By now it is late Friday night!)
jvp and cb and ss do a proof read of all the slides, looking for typos, wrong slides, missing slides, extra slides, etc. Inform fl of any errors which (we hope we're on time to) get corrected before Sunday AM for a flawless, seamless presentation by fl or svd.
Thanks Team!
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Must be nice. Singing sounds much better when everyone has their head up.
Thanks to the team behind the scenes who create a presentation for the liturgy song selections that is clear and flawless, and does not detract from corporate worship! Thanks as well to the team working on our website. Perhaps another natural link would be to post the bulletins?
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Is the musical notation provided? If not, what do people like myself, or visitors, who need help with the music, do?
Yes, every slide has the melody line provided. The "lyrics" however, are separate from the music.
jvp
Our church makes use of an online Music Ministry Database (http://www.truthandtradition.com/mmdb). The choir directors set up the songs for all upcoming services in a calendar (the lyrics are pulled from a database of songs) then the website generates the Powerpoint presentations on the fly from a laptop in the church (connected to the internet via wifi). We've had it for about 9 months and it works great!
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