Technology

To assist pastors and worship planners, we have a powerful program to make planning and preparing liturgical services faster and more convenient than ever. Christian Worship: Service Builder is a comprehensive software application that allows worship planners to rapidly and effectively manage the complexity of worship planning and service folder generation. Subscribers will complete their worship planning and preparation work faster than otherwise possible while gaining intuitive, structured access to the entire suite of hymnal resources. An optional package, called Christian Worship: Playlist, is the successor to HymnSoft that will provide high-quality audio files to accompany congregational worship when a musician is not available.

To assist musicians and directors, we are producing an online resource that delivers all the musical arrangements needed to adorn Christian worship with the beauty and grace of special instrumentation. Christian Worship: Musician’s Resource will offer musicians a structured database of additional musical materials available for purchase in a variety of formats that fit well into their existing workflows.

To assist everyone who worships with the Christian Worship suite of resources, we have a range of functional and aesthetic improvements to the hymnal’s design. From creative solutions to common problems encountered when paging through the hymnal pew edition to typographical and design considerations that work in various media and across numerous formats, the new design of the Christian Worship line is visually excellent and functionally useful in a multimedia environment.

Our work has carefully put to use technologies old and new to foster healthy unity in worship without imposing the uniformity of a centralized system. Our work gives congregations the freedom to facilitate variety without introducing unintended disarray. A thoughtful approach has resulted in tasteful, functional technology that is well-designed to support our doctrine and practice.