Review - Worship Assistant
This is mainly a review that will be beneficial for worship planners and worship leaders, but if you are interested in part of the process of how I plan and keep track of administrative items with Lord of Life’s worship services, then read on.
A couple of years ago I happened upon an ad for Church Assist’s Worship Assistant software, and I must say, for an organizationally challenged guy like myself, it helps me immensely! (and no, I have not been paid to recommend the software)
The website describes the software as being “designed to help church worship leaders plan services and present song lyrics using a video projector.” I think this sentence doesn’t do the software justice. It really should read that the software is “designed to help church worship leaders plan services, track and store song usage and information, track and store worship team involvement and information, and track and store lists of every service. And that’s just the half of it!”
This software does it all. You can store all of your song information including author, copyright, CCLI#, theme, Scripture, key, tempo, last used, first used, chords used, how many times it’s been used, plus user-defined categories as well.
You can store all of your worship team member information, and email a member right from the program.
You can store service information including which songs are in the set, notes for the songs, copyright reporting information, worship team information and more.
On top of all of this, you can do endless reports, print out master lists of your songs, search songs for a particular word or phrase; you can even specify a location of sheet music or mp3’s for a certain song within that’s songs information window. So if you want to remind yourself of how the song sounds on the recording, you just hit the little play button and it’s automatically there.
The one drawback to this software is the projection side. I am a huge fan of software specfically made for projection, and I wish that Worship Assistant was specifically tailored just for database and administration purposes. That said, however, it is a great option for people who don’t have the budget for separate pieces of software for projection and for record storage.
I really have only recently begun to fully utilize this great piece of software, but I plan to continue to use it daily to help me become more organized, which is an area of my life that definitely needs more help. I highly recommend this software!
