This set list is one of many that you can find at the worship music set list blog carnival at fredmckinnon.com, featuring many different kinds of churches. You can learn about some of the songs we sing at Sojourn Gathered each week in advance of the Sunday service by reading my “Getting Ready For Sunday” post each Friday at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos this week taken by Dan Canales.
1. Eyes On The Prize by the great American folk singer Pete Seeger. We used this as a service intro song.
2. King Of Glory by Chris Tomlin. We used this as a Call To Worship song on this Baptism Sunday (we had at least two baptisms at each of our four services in the Germantown campus).
3. Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing by Robert Robinson. This timeless hymn is a strong “prayer with melody.”
O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.
4. I Boast No More by Isaac Watts, with contemporary melody by Sandra McCracken. I love this hymn of assurance, dedication and trust in the finished work of Christ:
The best obedience of my hands
Dares not appear before Thy throne;
But faith can answer Thy demands,
By pleading what my Lord has done.
5. Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed? by Isaac Watts. We used an arrangement of a traditional Irish melody this week, and sang “Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?” as our communion hymn:
Thus might I hide my blushing face
while His dear cross appears
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness
and melt my eyes to tears
6. God Who Saves by Caedmon’s Call. We’ve sang this one for years at Sojourn Gathered. It’s one of my favorites, and it’s one of those songs that is great for many parts of a worship liturgy. Here, we used it as the Sending song, before our Benediction:
There is truth in his body raised that third day
there is joy in the stone rolled away
there is hope pouring out of the tomb where he lay
pouring out pouring over the grave
Worship band for the 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. services (Germantown campus):
Megan Shaffer — vocals
Dave Moisan — vocals and keyboard
Justin Shaffer — lead guitar
Mike Cosper — slide guitar
Brian Meurer — bass guitar
Ryan Harvey — drums
Worship band for the 10 a.m. service (East campus):
Rebecca Dennison — vocals
Brooks Ritter — vocals and guitar
Jamie Barnes — vocals and guitar
Rebecca Elliott — vocals and keyboard
Christi Osterday — cello
Worship band for the 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. services (Germantown campus):
Kate Robins — vocals
Neil Robins — vocals and guitar
Daniel LaChance — keyboard
Eddy Morris — bass guitar
Smitty Smith — bass guitar
