Hope is Our Song - PDF - eBooks
This collection contains 158 hymns, carols and songs by 48 New Zealand writers of words and music.
Full keyboard settings for all songs and guitar chords for a selection of songs are provided.
Format: 340pp
Published 2020.
Click here for: Print book • MP3 Audio tracks • Music CD
About the PDF edition
Open your PDF using Adobe Acrobat.
To save retyping, you can copy the lyrics of hymns in this book. Select the text you want, copy it to your clipboard, then paste it into a document or PowerPoint slide. This will give you the raw text, which you will then need to format.
Do this to copy the music notation for a hymn:
- While viewing the PDF in Acrobat, press the print screen button to copy the contents of the screen to the clipboard.
- Then paste this screen dump into a document or PowerPoint slide.
- Then use the picture formatting crop tool to delete the background
- Then position the resulting music on your document page or slide.
This PDF file is 26 mb.
Nine indexes at back of the book, cover:
- Forty themes (from Anniversaries to World)
- The Church’s Year (from Advent to All Saints / All Souls)
- The Worship Service (from Adoration / Praise to Benediction / Blessing)
- Pastoral / Sacramental Services (including Communion, Naming, Marriage / Union / Commitment, Baptism, Induction,. )
- Biblical Index (from Genesis to Revelation)
- Glossary of Maori words
- Index of Authors, Translators, Composers and Arrangers
- Index of Tunes; First line titles and subtitles.
These Indexes provide an invaluable tool for all who prepare church worship and other spiritual rituals.
Hymns list
Hymn titles are in italics, first lines in Roman type.
A Blessing for a House 54
A Farewell 78
A Hymn for a New Ministry 145
A Hymn for Ascension 14
A Hymn for Church Meetings 5
A Hymn of Thanks for our Pets 22
A Night in Bethlehem 57
A pinch of salt 1
A Springtime Carol 92
A stranger met by chance 2
A Welcome Song 30
Abba, Matua, we ask you 3
All will be well 4
Always there’s a carol 6
As sisters, brothers 5
As the wind song 7
Autumn comes in all its fullness 8
Beautiful presence 9
Because you came 10
Beyond all accidents 12
Blessings on the buildings 11
Bring in your new world 13
Carol for a Hard Winter 120
Carol of the Least Child 133
Christ ascends to God 14
Christ has changed the world 15
Christians are all kinds of people 16
Come celebrate the gift of life 17
Come fill our cup 18
Come to the feast 20
Communion Meditation 80
Companions, let us pray together 21
Cradle Song 59
Creation sings! 29
Creator God 34
Creator God, we give you thanks 22
Deep in the human heart 19
E te Ariki 23
E te Matua 24
Ephphatha, be opened, my soul 25 Eternal God 26
Every hair upon your head 27
Everything that has voice 28
Friend in Christ 30
From this holy time 31
Glorious are you 33
Go gently, go lightly 35
God be in, around, above me 36
God bless our land 37
God come now to explore 38
God comes to us 42
God companion of our journey 32
God composer and conductor 34
God Dancing in the Rain 123
God in Everything 42
God in Your Grace 95
God of ages 39
God of diversity 40
God of growth and recreation 41
God of our island home 43
God of our workplace 44
God of solemnity 47
God of the northerlies 45
God of work and rest 46
God our father, mother, lover 48
God was in Christ 49
God who births us 51
God who granted faith 50
God who weeps 52
God within our deepest thought 53
God, in Your Grace 95
God’s grace upon this house 54
Hairsong 27
Here I stand among God’s people 55
Here in the busy city 56
Here is a night 57
Here to celebrate God’s loving 58
Heritage of Faith 144
Hold him tenderly 59
Honour the dead 61
Hope is our Song 102
How much am I worth? 63 SIN