What Hymnal?

[Rich48]

We use All-American Church Hymnal.

I don't believe I had ever know a church to use that one as their main hymnal. It's a great one for many of the old, often forgotten hymns! My copy of it has an extra hymn pasted onto the front leaf ("How Many Lost?").

Rich

 

[Rich48]

The red back hymnal.

Hmm-is that the title or just a description?

Rich

 

[TwistrAndy]

The Red Back Hymnal is basically the same thing as "Hymns of The Spirit" it's a red hymnal and it has the words "Church Hymnal" or "Hymns of The Spirit" the both feature the same Pentecostal Hymns, and are both published in the Middle 1950's, and are both published by the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), and since the title is so simple we just got used to calling it the red-back hymnal, because the book is kinda like a maroon color, but some churches have to hymnal in blue, which in that case would be called the "Blue-back hymnal"

 

[Try]

The United Methodist Hymnal is what my church uses- we do not use any supplements or alternative books, at least in the pews.

My Wesley Foundation uses a variety of modern praise-song collections, but usually shows the lyrics on a power-point presentation.

 

[Rich48]

(editted) My Wesley Foundation uses a variety of modern praise-song collections, but usually shows the lyrics on a power-point presentation.

Many churches no longer use hymnals at all, opting for the power point (or some similiar computer program). In fact, when my own church moves into our new multi-purpose building, they are doing away with the hymnals (like I said, we currently use The Celebration Hymnal), but in the new building we will have 2 large screens and no hymnals. I think it is sad. There is something special about opening and singing directly from the hymnal.

Also, many hymns just don't work using just a screen. An example would be "Wonderful Grace Of Jesus". In the chorus, the men sing the melody, while the women sing a completely different melody, with different words.

Another point-if anyones's church is using a screen, be SURE that if anything that is copyrighted is displayed that your CCL (Christian Copyright License) number is desplayed with each song. If your church does not have one, get it ASAP!! It is illegal to display copyright songs without!

Rich

 

[brinny]

We do not have hymnals....we use 3 big screens. I miss hymnals tho'

 

[Rich48]

We do not have hymnals....we use 3 big screens. I miss hymnals tho'

I and my daughter will also miss the hymnals when we move into our new building later this year (well, if all goes right!). The powers that be have decided not to have them.

There are reasons, but I have a gut feeling our hymnal might be back later on.

Rich

 

[Turpius]

Living Hymns at one church and Trinity Psalter at another.

 

[loveall]

At my Wesley house we use contemporary worship songs on power-point, but at church we use the United Methodist Hymnal and the supplement, The Faith We Sing.

 

[Maeyken]

We use Hymnal: A Worship Book, the newest Mennonite hymnal, published in 1992. Before we used "The Mennonite Hymnal" (1969), and also "Sing and Rejoice" (I don't have a copy of that one so I don't know what the copyright date is). I really like HWB, because it has a lot of songs from other cultures as well as the standard ones. I am very disappointed that "How Great Thou Art" was not included!! Many people were very unhappy about that! We do still have copies of the old brown hymnal (MH), but we don't use them We still occasionally use the green one (S&R).

We have not moved to ppt worship in my church yet, but in my boyfriend's church they've used it for awhile. They still have hymnals in the pews, but don't use them. But whenever there's a hymn, I pull it out. There's just something about using a hymnal!

 

[Rich48]

(editted) We have not moved to ppt worship in my church yet, but in my boyfriend's church they've used it for awhile. They still have hymnals in the pews, but don't use them. But whenever there's a hymn, I pull it out. There's just something about using a hymnal!

I agree! Both have an advantage. Using a screen frees your hands for clapping, raising in praise, etc., but again, there IS something special about opening a hymnal and singing from it!

Rich

 

[loveall]

Do other churches besides the Methodists use any of Charles Wesley's hymns?

 

[Rich48]

Do other churches besides the Methodists use any of Charles Wesley's hymns?

Sure! But not to the extent that the Methodist do. Many, many churches use the wonderful hymn "And Can It Be". Another that used to be used a lot but has fallen from wide spread use is "A Charge To Keep I Have". At Christmas time, one of the most sung hymns would be "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus". Or even more so, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing".

There are more, but this is a start!

Rich

 

[ladybug01]

At my home Parish, we use the Missalette (sp.?) put out by Oregon Catholic Press and the red Worship hymnal.
Here at college, we just have the Worship one.

 

[AveMaria]

Do other churches besides the Methodists use any of Charles Wesley's hymns?

Sure, we use several of his! And our hymnal is Hymnal 1982 (According to the use of the Episcopal Church). (Which is blue, in case anyone wondered).

 

[Jadis40]

The United Methodist Hymnal

 

[A New Dawn]

Our church uses it's own hymnal, "The Hymns of the Saints", but we also use the hymnal from Hope Publishing, "Worship & Rejoice".

 

[Rich48]

Our church uses it's own hymnal, "The Hymns of the Saints", but we also use the hymnal from Hope Publishing, "Worship & Rejoice".

Hope Publishing are also the publishers of The Worshipping Church from which the terrible lyrics I have posted came.

Rich