September Newsletter - CD Give Aways
Overview
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ShareSong.org Live Recording Day
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yourname@sharesong.org email
address
The
fresh new music continues to roll in at the rate of about 70 songs per
month.
We
now have more than 850 songs in the database by over 90 songwriters.
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Duane Clark, author of “I Will Lift Up”, the most downloaded song
over the last few months, has submitted the remainder of his intimate
worship songs from his “Restoration” album.
Family Worship of the Ichthus Christian Fellowship, London, UK focus on providing resources for family services and all age worship. Check out the songs from the Prayer Album now.
Lenny
Smith, author of the classic praise song “Our God Reigns”, has
submitted all of the songs off his new album “Deep Calls to Deep”.
Ray Watson has submitted a number of new songs
including on based on the prayer of Jabez.
A while ago Ray Watson wrote “the fact that ShareSong.org
glorifies no one but Jesus and financially rewards no one but the Kingdom
is a very compelling reason for people to get involved. It feels good to
commit to.”
This seems to continue to be the case across the board as more and
more songwriters find out about ShareSong.org and get on board.
2. ShareSong.org Live Recording Day
Seventeen praise and worship songwriters, 60 singers and musicians, seven techies, and an appreciative audience of 80 got together on August 15 to perform thirty-five new praise and worship songs at the ShareSong.org Live Recording Day.
The event was designed to
showcase the praise and worship music being written in Brisbane
(Australia) as well as “harvest” the songs to be published on the
Internet to be used freely by churches all over the world as well as help
build the local network of churches and Christian song writers.
We’re
hoping that this event will lead the way for groups of songwriters and
musicians all over the world to work together to capture what they’re
doing in their part of the world for others to use freely.
To check out the full story about the day with pictures go to www.sharesong.org/recordingday.htm. Audio, the sheet music and even a streaming video documentary of the day will be added as soon as the post-production is finished.
3. Stats
The search engine optimisation seems to being
paying off. We now have up to
1300 visitors each day. At
the outset we though the growth couldn’t continue the way it was going,
but “I have a dream” has now, by God’s grace, become “I have a
reality.” Check out www.sharesong.org/statistics.htm
for more details.
A number of magazines and email newsletters have
also generously featured the ShareSong.org and FreePraiseAndWorship.org
sites. This should help to
continue to build the traffic.
4. CD Giveaways
RPJ records are currently doing a CD give away promotion to thank
all of you who have downloaded Dennis Burnett's songs through
ShareSong.org & FreePraiseandWorship.org.
They would like to send a free CD to the first 20 people who
respond by submitting their contact details at http://www.rpj.org/contact.html.
Sharon Riddle of Olive Leaf Publications and
Lenny Smith of New Jerusalam Music have said that they will give away a
free CD to anyone who gives a donation to FreePraiseAndWorship.org through
the PayPal Account - http://freepraiseandworship.org/oliveleaf.htm
Ray Watson has also said that he will mail a
copy of his new album Secret Place to anyone who donates money to
ShareSong.org - http://www.sharesong.org/donations.htm
Sick
of having a daggy email address? If
you’re interested in acquiring a yourname@sharesong.org
redirect account please let us know your current address and what you
would like your new ShareSong.org address to be.
Running the Live Recording Day Event drove home the fact that prayer is needed more than ever. This is a movement that can affect change in a culture and bless people and they come to invest in sharing their gifts with others. We need to commit this whole free worship movement to God’s hands to guide us to where he wants us to be.
With the horrific tragedy that has happened in the US recently, the one encouraging thing to see come out of it is political leaders and journalists talking about prayer. Let us pray that the “Christian World” would again turn to God to ask Him to guide us as we admit our dependence on Him. Pray that God would help our leaders to respond with God’s grace and love to a situation that could trigger much greater implications.
In Him
Marty Kendall
ShareSong.org Coordinator
