YouTube and Worship

We believe that corporate worship is the most important gathering we take part in each week. So we want to encourage the members of Grace Community Presbyterian Church to prepare to worship together every week.

In a previous post I gave the reasons why we want to make our order of service available a few days before we gather on the Lord's Day to worship. We provide links to our order of service on Facebook and Twitter and those links take you to this page, where a pdf of our bulletin can be accessed.

A member of our church had the genius idea of taking each week's order of service and building a playlist of the hymns we will be singing that week. The response has been very encouraging. Families are playing the playlist while they eat dinner, it becomes the music they play as they are running errands or exercising. One mom told me that her children look forward to the playlist each week. These playlists are available on YouTube and we also provide links to each playlist each week on our our Facebook and Twitter pages. You can check out our playlist from Sunday, July 3rd, here as an example.

If there are ways we can equip and encourage the people of our churches to prepare for the most important meeting of the week; gathering to worship our Triune God, I'm all for it.

What kinds of things do you or your church do?

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