When Joe Christian started planning church services 35 years ago, it meant spending hours flipping through hymnals and copying sheet music.
Today, it’s point, click, worship.
Christian, the music minister at Una Baptist Church in Nashville, is one of more than 12,000 people who have signed up for a new iTunes-like website called LifeWayworship.com. Along with buying recordings of worship songs and hymns, users can create and download sheet music for church bands and choirs. LifeWay officials hope their new site will make life easier for music ministers, while following copyright laws.
Joe Christian – love the name!
This was on NPR a couple of days ago
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101623145
CCLI – the organization that many churches already use for music licensing has a very similar product.