I probably wouldn’t pay for the product but I understand their market.  I’m sure there are a lot of small parish churches that have no musicians aside from Auntie Bess on the piano or parish organ.  I would imagine that many of these churches have a solid majority of senior members.  In such a case, having a resource for less than £1 a week that can help the minister choose songs and provide accompaniments is a reasonable cost.

I would.  We have zero musicians.  Some really really good vocalists, but no musicians.  So, for the smaller ministry I think this would be very helpful, especially if it weren’t just hymns, though a good contemporary hymn arrangement is wonderful at times.

For me personally, Mission Praise has always had it’s faults like taking well known Hymns and changing words to try and be more contemporary, often the musical arrangements aren’t that great either, BUT you have to give them credit in addressing a very real need where people want to hold a worship service and they have literally no musicians.

Of course (and this may shock some US Churches especially) it is not essential to have a 20 piece band and mega PA to worship, in fact dare I go so far as to say that in my experience, it does Churches good to “come back to the heart of worship” once in a while with acapella or one guitar!

Well done Mission Praise - thank you Billy Graham after all it was your visit to the UK that started this book.