Kiev Church of Christ is blessed to have many brothers and sisters who serve in worship with their talents. We would like to share our blessing with all the churches. Feel free to download these arrangements to enrich your worship with music. We believe that it will be especially helpful to the churches who do not yet have many musicians.
The last week we recieved a letter from Brian Craig - he was copying to us in Kiev a letter from Milan Church of Christ. It was Annie Silipo asking for some input on how to develop a great worship there in Italy where the Silipos family moved recently to strengthen the team of European leaders and to put all of their efforts into serving Milan Church of Christ.
Well, if you are in a small church... you know how it feels when you go to great international conference of visit a bigger church and there you participate in outstanding worship! And you might feel... well, I hope God will grow our church and we will also worship him with big choir and instrumental music some day...
After talking to many song leaders from smaller churches we started to think: what we can do and how we, in a big churches, can help our brothers and sisters to enrich their worship. So they would add some music to their sincere whole-hearted singing.
We in Kiev put together a website - http://www.sing4ever.org - and we posted there all the materials that we have in Kiev: all our arrangements, all the samples of a new ways to sing old songs, the cords for guitar etc. Some music was made by our brothers and sisters in Moscow, some we did in Kiev. And to find some of them we had to go do some fishing on the worldwideweb ;)
We would like to share our blessing with all the churches. Feel free to download these arrangements to enrich your worship with music. We believe that it will be especially helpful to the churches who do not have their musicians yet.
Greetings from Kiev!
Ivan & Masha Lyashenko
Feel fre to download for your church or even for you personally!
Above All - a song of Lenny LeBlance made famous by Michael W. Smith
I Can Only Imagine - a song of "Mercy Me"
I Need You to Survive - a song of Hezekiah Walker
Mary, Did You Know - a song of Mark Lowry
And finally 2 songs that were created in Keiv Church of Christ:
The EDGE The theme song of the International Leadership Conference, 2008 - Kiev, Ukraine
Music & Lyrics: Ivan & Masha Lyashenko
He gave us His Word,
He gave up His life.
We're willing to take this Sword
The Message of Truth and Light.
In Him is our peace,
To Him is our pledge,
We know He is here with us
Until the end of the age.
Chorus:
In spite of hardships
Despite all weakness
Let's stay united
Let's stay committed!
In spite of hardships
Despite all weakness
Let's stay united
Let's stay committed (on the EDGE)
(repeat from the beginning)
On the EDGE – where He want us to be,
The EDGE – cutting straight to our hearts
The EDGE – we will pray and we'll go
So to bring His living Word
To the EDGE of the world.
Chorus 2 times
On the EDGE!
Here is how we were singing it at the ILC 2008 in Kiev (click here to download)
The Lord Will Come - a song written to Kiev Church 17th B-day. Music: Alexandra Saychuk, Lyrics: Masha Lyashenko
Our hearts are filled with longing - our Lord will come!
It's Him Who we belong to - our Lord will come!
Our faith and expectation are all 'bout him.
He's bringing us salvation, and so we sing!
He's bringing us salvation, and so we sing!
Chorus:
Rejoice! Hallelujah! The Lord will come!
Rejoice! Hallelujah! The Lord will come!
And there will be no worry,
No tears - just his glory!
The Lord will come! The Lord will come!
The Lord will come! The Lord will come!
He'll look into your eyes and will call you "Friend"
"You are My faithful servant, and I know that".
The final trumpet sounded, and death is no more
his glory will surround us when we are home.
His glory will surround us when we are home.
Chorus 3 times
Here is how we were singing it in Russian on Kiev Church 17th Anniversary: (click here to download)