Encouraging saints around the world since 1991 !!
The background MIDI
for this page is "Heavens and Earth",
as arranged by Fred Scorza
HOW
YOU
CAN
BE INVOLVED
(Paul
planted... Apollos watered... God caused the growth)
New Hope ............... you
..................and the Lord
What a team!!
Freely copy our songsheets, recordings & MP3s and share them with all who might benefit (worship leaders, pastors, Bible Study groups, other ministries...).
Maybe put a stack of songsheets out for people to pick up at worship conferences and retreats. You have our permission to duplicate our materials for all "not-for-profit" uses.
Grotonwood
Christian Camp and Conference Center
is now giving copies of our sheet music to those
that come to their facility!
150 songsheets were distributed to New
England & New York worship leaders
at the Worship School, a ministry of Gerrit Gustafson
Many songsheets were given away at Congress
2003 & 2004,
a wonderful event sponsored by Vision New England
A similar sheet music "give-away"
occurred at a
Robin Marks seminar and concert in New
Hampshire
Close to 600 songsheets were distributed by
various groups at
Inside Out Soul Festival (2002) & SoulFest 2003
in New Hampshire
As a ministry of encouragement,
missionary organizations
from America to Africa
to Australia
have copied our praise & worship songsheets and tapes
and mailed them to their staff
across the world !
One ministry in China
will be copying our songsheets
and distributing them to home churches across Asia!
Actively use the songs in your local worship gatherings. Let us know if they are as beneficial to your friends as they have been when we use them.
"Your
style of songs is my kind of worship".
(from Mike from Texas)
One worship
leader used 8-10 songs
from our tape "Songs Of New Hope"
at his church worship services in Massachusetts,
including "Thine,
O Lord", "Search Me, O God"
and "Come To Me"
!
Read
more about this!
This
same church has used two of our songs,
"In The Splendor Of Your Courts" and "Heavens
and Earth"
as introduction theme songs
on their weekly radio broadcasts !!
A
400+ member church in Prescott Arizona
has used
"Splendor
and Majesty" and
will soon teach "The God Of
Jerusalem"
to their congregation.
A
woman from Madrid Spain
writes,
"We are using several
of your choruses
in our Sunday evening services.
One of our very talented teenagers plays guitar,
and it is she who has taught the choruses to the congregation."
From Canada
to
South Africa to England
to
New Zealand,
many choirs, worship teams and
soloists
are singing our Christmas carol "He Shall Be
Called".
"Receive His Grace" is
sung by a large church in Amherst Massachusetts.
An "alternative Salvation Army band" in New
York uses "Bless
The Lord (Calypso)"
Students at
Messiah College in Pennsylvania
are singing
several of our songs, including "Center
Of My Soul".
A fellowship in New
Hampshire &
choir in New
Jersey also
enjoys this chorus.
A Christian school in Massachusetts
sings "Set An Example" and "Let
Your Light Shine"
A Charismatic gathering in Delaware
sang "Splendor
and Majesty" with
Lenny Smith.
A missions group in Florida
used "This
Day Is Holy" at their rallies with 2000 kids!
"Before The Coming Lord"
is a favorite of a missionary in Cameroon.
A woman in India
enjoys "I
Will Lift Up My Eyes"
and "Content
In All Things".
Choirs in South
Africa is singing "Center
Of My Soul" and "Search Me O God".
A brother in Kuwait
likes "Have You Ever Heard...?"
A worship leader in Texas
likes "To
Him Who Sits On The Throne".
Our church in Westboro Massachusetts
uses over thirty of these songs in worship gatherings, including
"By
The Mercies of God", "I
Will Walk", "Abba Father", "Now
Our God",
"I Was Glad", "When I Am Afraid",
"I Am Persuaded", "Magnify
The Lord With Me",
"Yours Is The Greatness", "How
Awesome Is This Place", "Who May Ascend"
, "The Mission",
"Faithful Is The Lord", "Send Forth
Your Light" and "Oh The
Wondrous Cross".
Several
radio stations have played our music in Estonia!
One DJ writes "your music is like dew from the mountains... so sweet and
uplifting.
Great sound, quality and spiritual depth. Your song 'Holy
One Of Israel' is my favorite...
This is what we need... please send us more!! " In another
E-mail, he wrote
"We love your music... this morning, we played 'Mighty
One' and 'Bless The Lord (Calypso)'."
Their broadcasts reach much of Estonia
and part of Finland.
Halleluia !!
Record your copying activity of these songs in your CCLI Song Surveys. This will give us valuable feedback concerning their usage, be an encouragement to our volunteer staff and provide a little royalty income to partially offset the cost of our "free distributions".
During
the last few years
(according to CCLI surveys)
churches have made
over 4000 copies of our music
for overheads, bulletins, songbooks, recordings, etc.
CCLI currently lists around 100 of our songs
in their Web Site database, and included
5 New Hope songs in their Song Select software !
CCLI
Web Site
Translate the lyrics (if appropriate) into the language of your country, then make your own songbooks, overheads and recordings. Feel free to include your name as translator on any material. If you do translate, send us a copy of the songbooks/tapes for our records
"Mighty
One" and "In
The Splendor Of Your Courts"
have been translated into Spanish.
"Heavens And Earth", "I
Will Go",
"Bless The Lord (Calypso)"
and dozens of others have been
translated into the Afrikaans language
"How
Awesome Is This Place" has been translated
into Shona, a language spoken in Zimbabwe
"We, missionaries in Israel,
are interested in
translating
your music into Hebrew
and using it to minister to the people here..."
Peggy
(Indonesia)
wrote "I would like to have your permission to translate
and sing your song ("He Shall Be Called")
into Indonesian."
"Over
time we will be happy to translate some hymns and songs for you.
I expect the first ones will be in Mongolian
Don (Beijing,
China)
"He
Shall Be Called" and several others
have now been translated into Finnish
"We
can translate some in French
or Creole"
Pastor Devin (Mauritius)
"I
will surely help you translate into
Tamil, Telegu and Hindi"
Daniel
(India)
We are also looking for original Scripture-based lyrics to use in new songs. If you know of a writer/poet who would like to submit original song lyrics for consideration, encourage him/her to E-mail or regular mail them to us. Or, if you are a writer of music, use some of our lyrics and write new melodies for them (by design, there will be no "fame and fortune" in this, just a chance to see if we might bear more fruit together than by working apart).
Gerrit Gustafson (Tennessee)
was kind to critique
three of my newer songs
and helped to improve the melody on one
("How Precious Is Your Love")
One
of the songs that Lenny Smith (New
Jersey)
(author of "Our God Reigns")
and I co-wrote is currently
being considered for recording
by several artists .
("Splendor
and Majesty" web site)
Create new arrangements of our songs (MIDI, PDF, Real Audio, MP3, SATB choir...) for us to share on the web site.
Record your group singing one of our songs. We will put part of your recording on our web site, and send you a free music CD & songbook as a thank you gift !!
Two
choirs in Cape Town, South
Africa recently
sent me
a recording of them singing seven New Hope Music songs!
"Bless the Lord (Calypso)", "He Shall Be Called", "I
Will Go",
"How Precious Is Your Love", "Mighty One", "Center Of
My Soul"
and "Splendor And Majesty"
St.
Ann's choir in New
Jersey included
"Center Of My Soul"
on a CD they recorded, entitled "Be With Me Lord" - Psalm 91"
A
choir in Helsinki Finland
has sent me recordings of
many New Hope Music songs, including "Abba Father" and "To The Rock"
Or
maybe you or your ministry has the "gift of giving" (I can dream,
can't I ?)....
Send a tax-deductible donation to sponsor the sending of free
tapes, CDs or sheet music to missionaries (it cost $3- $4 to mail each package
overseas). Checks can be made payable to "New Hope" and mailed
to: New Hope Music, PO Box 1612, Westboro MA 01581.
Help us reach new countries with our music [Unreached Countries].
Share a testimony by e-mail of how our songs have been useful to you [Testimonies]
Add a link from your web site to ours (http://newhopemusic.com)
Right
click and this banner and "save as..." to download to your
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Help manage and increase traffic to our web site (our goal is 1 million visits/year)
Use our MIDI
files as background on your web site (dozens
already have).
"You Are Awesome God" is used as background on the Crossroads
Christian Church (Tennessee) and Lutheran Social Services
(Alaska) web sites. "Thine Oh Lord", "Hallelujah, Jesus Is
Lord", "He Shall Be Called", "Mighty One", "Holy,
Holy, Holy" and others
are also used as backgrounds. [ MIDI
Central].
Invite
friends to come visit our web site to download the choruses...