JOY Christmas Service Guide

Listen:
How Great Our Joy
Underscore 1 / Narration 1
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Underscore 2 / Narration 2
It Came upon the Midnight Clear
Underscore 3 / Narration 3
Jesus Is His Name
with
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
LISTEN
opt. pastor's sermon
Underscore 4 / Narration 4
Joy to the World
LISTEN
More Details:
Click to download a PDF with more detailed instructions about the JOY Christmas Service Guide.

What's Included:
All arrangements contained in the JOY Christmas Service Guide come with your HymnCharts subscription. What's new are the underscores, readings, graphics and combined tracks. Combined tracks allow you to play one MP3 with a flow of several songs and underscores.

The total time of the music is a little over 21 minutes. Add the sermon and prayer and you have a Christmas Eve Service that can last from 45 minutes to an hour. Add your own special music for an even longer service.


The JOY Christmas Eve Service Guide contains everything you need (underscores, readings, tracks and Christmas carols) for about 22 minutes of your Christmas Eve worship or Christmas Sunday worship. This versatile service can be led with as little as a capable pianist and worship leader, or with a praise team, praise band and/or a full SATB or SAB choir. If you don't have any musicians, lead the service with the stereo tracks, or even mix tracks with live performances.

A note from arranger/composer Don Chapman

As with all my service guides, I intend for them to sound great whether you’re doing a full production or a simple version with piano/vocal. Jesus Is His Name is the included kid’s medley for kid’s choir and praise team, but if you don’t have the time or resources for a full kid’s ensemble, pick a talented young soloist instead - they’ll love the opportunity (and so will their parents!)

Lead the service with just a worship leader and pianist or include a 3 part vocal praise team or full SATB or SAB choir - all the parts are included.

If you don't have any musicians, conduct the entire service with my MP3 stereo tracks. The carols and Underscores come in both vocal and stereo track versions. You can read the Scripture narrations over the tracks or play the vocal narration demos. Some churches like to play the underscores live and use tracks for the songs.

The secret to this service guide, and something you won't find ANYWHERE else, is my specially composed underscores that are to be played under the Scripture narrations. I've created these underscores to match the mood and feeling of the Scripture narrations - much like a movie score supports the acting. This will allow you to create the perfect worship flow for your service!
Download Files:
graphics zip
3 part vocals demos zip
combined tracks MP3s zip
combined demos MP3s zip
stereo tracks MP3s zip
vocal demos MP3s zip
service guide zip
sheet music songs zip
sheet music underscores zip
instrumental parts zip

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