Evangelism challenge music

You may wish to use some ‘evangelism challenge’ music for your Internet Evangelism Day program, or any other mission challenge/focus event. You can download most of these songs as full vocal recordings, to be played at an appropriate point in your program. Alternatively, download a backing track to use with your own singers, or print the music for your worship group to learn and perform.

These songs will be useful in any other sort of missions or outreach-challenge meeting for Christians. Whatever your personal taste in music, they are probably more likely to communicate to younger generations than certain traditional ‘missionary’ hymns written in the 19th century! You can burn them all on to a CD – many modern CD players now handle MP3s.

To listen to the music, left-click on the links below. Broadband may play it almost immediately, depending on what is set as your default MP3 player. On a dialup connection there will be a long wait till it starts playing (low-fi links will be much quicker). To save to a suitable location on your hard disk, left or right-click according to browser, choose ‘save link as’ (or ‘save target as’, or similar), and select a directory to save the file to. Download times: dialup connection – about 12 minutes, broadband – 1-2 minutes. (Most computers have installed software capable of playing MP3 files – e.g. Quicktime, Windows Media Player or RealAudio.)

Restrictions as to use: non-profit ministry performance only, MP3s not to be sold. For other usages, check with the song owner.

1. Lord, Help Me To Tell Your Story

Grateful thanks to writers Tim Moyler and Donna Vann, and Family Worship for permission to use this encouraging and gentle song. Many other songs are available from Family Worship.

Lord, Help Me to Tell Your Story
– full song with vocals (3.3Mb MP3): play/download

Lyric & sheet music with chords (149k PDF file): view/download

2. Don’t Wait

Joe and Melissa Champlion of SoulKeeperMusic have generously made their strongly emotive ‘Don’t Wait’ evangelism song available for use on IE Day. See copyright notice on the lyric file link.

Dont’t Wait – full song with vocals (5Mb MP3): play/download

Lyric & chords (RTF file): view/download

3. We Can Do Together/We’re on God’s Team/Unify

These challenging songs emphasise the need for co-operation and networking, if we are to share the Gospel effectively. (Thanks for VisionSynergy.net and PowerofConnecting.net for making this link available.) Follow the link to see the lyrics and listen to the songs in Windows Media Format/MP3 (right-click their links to save for later use):
Music and lyrics

4. More great MP3s

Left-click on low-fi links (where available) to listen. Left or right-click on MP3 links depending on browser (all around 3Mb in size) to save on your hard disk.
The first four songs are made available with grateful thanks to 4Praise.com.
Let The Whole World Know (Lydell Washington)
low-fi | MP3 | Lyric/chords
That The World May Know (Daniel Thorton)
Low-fi | MP3 | Lyric/sheet music
Grateful thanks to John Green and Recent Rainfall for these tracks:
No Way I Am Not Ashamed low-fi MP3 | MP3 female vocalist | MP3 male vocalist | MP3 backing track | Lyric/chords
I Will Not Be Silent latest longer mix  MP3 | older shorter mix MP3 | low-fi MP3 | Lyric/chords (includes conditions of use)
Declare Your Glory low-fi MP3 | MP3 | Backing track MP3 | Lyric/chords
Show Your Glory Lord MP3, lyric, chords, backing track

5. Bill Drake MP3s

Bill has a wonderful musical ministry with an emphasis on commitment and outreach challenge, and ministers with Operation Mobilization. The following MP3 tracks (about 2Mb each) from his albums are a valuable resource, and although not entire tracks, they are long enough for practical use, with a fadeout at the end. Chord sheets are available for some of these titles.
Take My Life | I Was Born To Worship | One And Only | Open My Eyes | Haunting Eyes | I Surrender All | Shout For Joy | Send Me | Move Through Me | Toward The Mark | Redeem The Time | Lord Of The Harvest

Other songs

There is other music useful in an witness-challenge setting, though surprisingly little. Here are a few suggestions:

• Tell My people I Love Them (Bardoni/Harrington)
• O Lord, You’re So Beautiful (Keith Green)
• Jesus is the Lord, Jesus the Lord reigns (Dennis Merry)
• Send Me Out From Here, Lord (John Pantry)
• Be Still And Know That I Am God (Lex Loizides)
• You Said (Reuben Morgan)
• I Will Go (Dave Ruis)
• Bringing the Presence of Jesus (New Hope Music) Words/Midi backing lyric/chords
• Here I Go Again by Casting Crowns 2003
• Shine, Jesus Shine (Graham Kendrick)
• Shout to the North [chords]
• Show Your Power
• The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is Upon Us
• More outreach-challenge songs (1) – includes sheet music, lyric, audio-clips
• More outreach-challenge songs (2) – from TentMaker.net
• More best outreach-challenge songs (3) – WitnessSong: music, lyrics, midi-tunes

Other sources of music:

• Free Worship Music
• Hot Worship – includes links to a range of free-to-download MP3 songs
• Unedited Worship Music – free downloads each month
• WorshipSong.com – free streamed music & downloadable chords, music can be embedded in your own website using copy/paste code

Please tell us of other high quality evangelism-challenge music (titles or MP3s) to add to this page.

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