Let me tell you about a few of the talented praise and worship songwriters at ShareSong.org who are sharing the songs that God has given them this month.

Matt Adams

Matt Adams is the worship arts director at Granger Community Church in South Bend, IN.  His heart is to be a passionate worshipper of Jesus and to help people connect with their Savior through worship.   His raw and intimate songs reflect this heart’s cry. 

Richard Oddie

Prolific songwriter Richard Oddie has recently made eleven songs from his Heart of Compassion album available on ShareSong.org.  Over the last 25 years, Richard’s songs have been used in many recordings and appeared in many songbooks around the world.  He has a unique talent for combining gutsy lyrical content with exceptional song craft.   Heart of Compassion is a collection of some of his best songs, made to raise money for missions.  Richard is now the music pastor at Dunamis Christian Centre in Australia.

Chris Fitzell

Chris Fitzell writes to comfort and to encourage, as well as to introduce people to Jesus. Her Undivided CD has songs of praise, worship, restoration and intimacy.   “I love it when God touches people as they listen.  I want to help people feel the majesty of God and know Jesus as a friend, to love being with him each day, completely devoted,” says Chris.  

Stephanie Jackson

Stephanie Jackson has made available 11 songs from her Where You Are CD.  Every song on the CD is a winner.  If you’re after some well crafted, youth-orientated, fresh praise and worship, music you really should check out these songs.

Featured Songs

Check out this month’s featured songs:

1.      You Paid the Price – Sarah Mathias

2.      Spirit and the Bride – Ricahrd Oddie

3.      Your Glory – Chris Fitzell

4.      Captivated – Robbie Cochran & David Poindexter

5.      Just as I Am – Chris Fitzell

6.      My Confession – Stephanie Jackson

7.      God is Good – Garry Mulgrew

8.      Shelter of Your Wings – David Poindexter & Aaron Wolfe

9.      Jump for Joy – Stephanie Jackson

10. Bend Down – Forefront Worship Band

You can also check out the most popular songs and most popular contributors to see what other people found most helpful last month.

Worship Pastors Gathering

After the ShareSong.org Live Recording Day in August last year, a group of worship pastors from various churches around Brisbane (Australia) are now getting together on a regular basis to share ideas, to fellowship, to support each other and to pray together. 

The group has decided to meet at different churches four times a year to inspire each other in what can be a fairly isolated ministry.  “We want to begin networking and supporting each other,” said Gateway Baptist’s Creative Ministries Director, Owen Riley.

If you’d like to start something similar in your back yard, you are welcome to pick Owen’s brain at oriley@gatewaybap.com.  We’re also hoping that a similar thing will start up online as more and more people join the ShareSong.org worship leaders discussion group.  Click here to join. 

Professional Notation Service - Expressions Publishing

Expressions Music Publishing has been doing notation for a handful of the artists on ShareSong.org.  If you’re finding it hard to get your music used by others, Expressions Publishing may be able to help.  They are a notation service especially geared towards worship songwriters.  They can take a basic recording and produce professionally presented sheet music complete with notes, chords and lyrics.   For more information or a free sample pack contact Ben Farley at www.expressions-music.com or mail@expressions-music.com.

Highest Praise Productions

Fred McKinnon of Highest Praise Productions has been offering his music and his friends’ music on the web for 7 years.  Nearly a million Highest Praise Productions mp3s have been downloaded.  More material from Highest Praise Productions has been downloaded from ShareSong.org than from any other contributor.  Recently, Fred has stepped out from his full time music pastor paid job to go into the production, promotion, and distribution of Christian arts full time.

If you’re an artist looking for help with setting up a website, hosting a web site, recording/producing your material, or promoting and distributing it, we would recommend talking to Fred at Highest Praise Productions.   If you mention ShareSong.org he’ll even send 20% of the income to ShareSong.org to help us cover costs. 

In Him