What an incredible weekend we had, full of praise, amazing music making and collaborating, energy, love and lots of hard work! You can view our launch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYOr9lY_mLg.
People came from all over Australia, even with the crazy challenging weather! Thanks to the commitment, hard work and can-do attitude from everyone who participated including:
Choir - Peter, Kyria, Nathan, Tim, Liz, Andrew, David, Belinda, Susan, Meah, Jacqui, Gabriella, Nita, Rosie, Phoebe, Madeleine, Timothy, Jonathan, Hava, Jake, Fiona, Siana, Zadok, Judah, Margaret, Anne.
Ensemble - Miriam, Carolyn, Brent, Harry, Caitlyn, Heidi, Caroline, Nita, Phoebe, Georgia, Julia, Rosie, Rhiannon, Ash, Matt.
AV - Chris, Andrew, Luke (huge thanks to Luke Wheeldon Audio)
Stage - Chloe, Ketty
Catering - Anne, Wendy, Leanne, Madeleine, Ketty, Tim
Logistics - Ali
Theatre - Christina, Dominique (huge thanks to Lake Macquarie Council)
Chairs, instruments - James, Clyde (huge thanks to Charlestown Ecclesia), Matt, Pete
Distribution superstars - Nita, Georgia

One section in our service included the dedication of the worship book and below is our dedication prayer, given during the service:
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Dear Father
“LORD God, there is no one is like You. You never forget the promises You have made with Your people and You are loyal to those who faithfully obey Your teachings.”
Thank You for bringing us here together tonight in person from all over Australia, as well as online, from all over the world.
We now present this book, the blue Worship book, to You as an offering of our service and love to You, and as an offering of service and love to this community of believers worldwide.
We pray that the Worship book is used to glorify Your’s and Your son’s names, to help believers focus on You, to help bring them into a sacred space where they can sing and meditate and praise Your name.
We thank You for inspiring the talent within our community to produce this work - the composers, the lyricists, the musicians, the poets, the notators, the proofreaders, the distributors, the many people worldwide who have come together to collaborate on this book, as well as all the participants tonight, all of these servants of Yours who belong to You. We ask that You continue to bless them, to continue to inspire them to put their talents into service for You and for this community of believers.
We ask that You always turn our hearts to You, fill our hearts with thankfulness, help us recognise the blessings in our life that You provide, including forgiveness of sins, and fill our hearts with these good things so that we praise You joyfully with our whole being. Keep us turned towards You so that we focus on Your goodness rather than our own fears.
Please help us to remember to sing together as a congregation, in harmony with each other, focusing on our commonalities in Your love, rather than any petty differences. Help us to use this book to create more harmony, more music in our community to help unite us. Help us to listen to the lyrics contained in these songs, inspired by You, so that they motivate us in our individual lives.
Please always help us to have a new song in our hearts, for Your mercies are new every morning. We look forward to a time when Your glory fills the earth, when entire nations, not just denominations, sing with one voice Your praises, when a new heaven and a new earth is finally here.
We give all of this night to You, we give this book to You, and we pray You hear our words, hear our praise, and accept these.
In Jesus' name we pray,
Amen

We are currently working through a list of 144 songs, listening, notating, creating accompaniments, cleaning up scores. Thanks to our hard working notators from all over the world:
Timon Burney (Australia)
Dan Hardy (Germany)
Rachel Hocking (Australia)
Nita Lawrie (Australia)
Amy Parkin (UK)
​Phil Rosser (Australia)

In other news, we’re planning a launch April 6th, 2024 DV, to be held in Newcastle, Australia, in partnership with the upcoming Newcastle conference. Here’s the link to find out more about the conference: 
​https://www.newcastle2024.com/ 

Well, there's been some developments and decisions made recently. I'm running behind time because of, well, life, so the book has not been released according to my own plans in September 2015. The times have been readjusted to meet the conference deadline, where we will introduce the book, workshop it, release the teaching resources and hopefully launch the radio station. At the moment, some talented pianists are sightreading through the book to make sure everything makes musical sense - thanks to Sharon Tran, Judy Collins, Prue Philp, Annabelle Young and Rosemary Nath for this. The total book takes between 6 and 7 hours to play through, so their work is much appreciated. I'm putting together the agreements for each composer/lyricist and continually revisiting the music, which is really enjoyable to play. Looking forward to sharing that with everyone!

Worship 2 is due to be released in September this year DV and to help our planning, we are offering a special pre-order price of $25.00 which includes one hardcover book with bonus e-book. This is a saving of $5.00 but it also helps us to place a print run that is more economical and designed to demand. 

If you're a local, you can arrange to pick up your book from one of our launch nights or the January 2016 conference in Sydney. If you want to receive your book via post, you will be invoiced at a later date for the shipment amount, but will pay the special pre-order price now.

To pre-order your book, please click here.
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