In the beginning of 2024, Worship for Workers hosted a song search competition for new “sending songs.” We named our top 3 winners, thrilled to collaborate with our friends at the Porter’s Gate who will include the first prize song “Holy Ground” on their Sending Songs album. We were overwhelmed with wonderful new songs for the church and are thrilled to share them below.
As We Depart
A gentle call and response sending written by Hunter Lynch
All the Colors of the Kingdom
A vibrant song of unity and sending written by David Lyon
Amen, God Will Send
An accessible refrain for every congregation written by Bruce Benedict
Go to the World
An upbeat sending to go and live the gospel written by Dan Becker
The Stories of Our Lives
A beautiful prayer to be sent out to tell God’s story in our lives by Michael Stalcup and Aimee Smith
Corporate worship must actively push and propel worshipers back into their work in the world. It must bless and send the priesthood out to extend their worship into their vocational parishes. Gathered worship in the sanctuary must become scattered worship in the streets.
– Cory Willson and Matthew Kaemingk “Work and Worship”
