The app is available for download at the PlayStore.
Smiles for every Seventh-day Adventist who's been waiting for this. Thank you, developer! :)
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Free SDA Hymnal App for Android
Finally, an SDA Hymnal app for Android that's free, available for offline use, and comes with MIDI files for some songs.
The app is available for download at the PlayStore.
Smiles for every Seventh-day Adventist who's been waiting for this. Thank you, developer! :)
The app is available for download at the PlayStore.
Smiles for every Seventh-day Adventist who's been waiting for this. Thank you, developer! :)
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Adventist Youth Program Ideas
Idea # 3
Music is a huge part of any worship service. It is a gift that God wants us to use and enjoy to His glory. These days, the gray area between good church music and otherwise has widened along with the musical generation gap. It probably also happens in your church: the older members complaining that church music now just isn't as good as in the old days. But God has bestowed musical talents just as wisely on this generation as in previous ones. So this is what today's AY program idea is about: bridging the musical generation gap.
MUSIC: OLD AND YOUNG
Materials: writing board and chalk or papers and pens (for copying song lyrics)
Mechanics: Group the congregation into two or more (depending on the size of the congregation). Make sure that each group has enough young members as well as older ones. Instruct the older members of the group to teach their younger members a song from the old days - one that the youth are not familiar with. Also, ask the youth to teach their older members a song that is from their generation. Allow practice time. Now, each group will be given time to perform both songs - the older ones singing the new song, and the younger ones singing the old song.
Now you have young people learning and singing old songs and older people learning and actually singing new songs! This may just start everyone on a road to appreciating music from different generations. Plus, you just gave them an avenue to interact and work with each other toward a common goal.
At my church, everyone enjoyed the activity, especially the older ones as they sang their newly-learned song while their young teachers looked proudly on.
The important thing to emphasize here is that the sacredness of the musical gift cuts across generations. God designed for music to be as much a part of worship as is prayer. In the words of the Apostle Paul:
I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 1 Corinthians 14:15
What do you do to bring out the good music at your church?
Check out other AY Program Ideas in this blog by clicking here.
Music is a huge part of any worship service. It is a gift that God wants us to use and enjoy to His glory. These days, the gray area between good church music and otherwise has widened along with the musical generation gap. It probably also happens in your church: the older members complaining that church music now just isn't as good as in the old days. But God has bestowed musical talents just as wisely on this generation as in previous ones. So this is what today's AY program idea is about: bridging the musical generation gap.
MUSIC: OLD AND YOUNG
Materials: writing board and chalk or papers and pens (for copying song lyrics)
Mechanics: Group the congregation into two or more (depending on the size of the congregation). Make sure that each group has enough young members as well as older ones. Instruct the older members of the group to teach their younger members a song from the old days - one that the youth are not familiar with. Also, ask the youth to teach their older members a song that is from their generation. Allow practice time. Now, each group will be given time to perform both songs - the older ones singing the new song, and the younger ones singing the old song.
Now you have young people learning and singing old songs and older people learning and actually singing new songs! This may just start everyone on a road to appreciating music from different generations. Plus, you just gave them an avenue to interact and work with each other toward a common goal.
At my church, everyone enjoyed the activity, especially the older ones as they sang their newly-learned song while their young teachers looked proudly on.
The important thing to emphasize here is that the sacredness of the musical gift cuts across generations. God designed for music to be as much a part of worship as is prayer. In the words of the Apostle Paul:
I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 1 Corinthians 14:15
What do you do to bring out the good music at your church?
Check out other AY Program Ideas in this blog by clicking here.
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