This site is a project to share music resources across the Christian Church, particularly with the members of Lutheran Church–Canada.
These materials are all based on work done for the local church since 2005 by LCC and LCMS worker Michael Schutz, who served as a Director of Parish Services (worship, discipleship, youth, young adults, technology) from 2000-2013 and as Pastor since 2013. He currently serves as pastor at Concordia Lutheran Church in Penticton, BC, Canada. You contact contact Pr. Michael about this site on this page.
Copyright Info
All resources here are made freely available for use within church contexts only: worship, studies, small groups, etc. At this point, only public domain songs are being used, so copyright is not an issue for the songs themselves. All material on this site (e.g. the mp3 files of songs, zip files of images) is released under a Creative Commons license under the following terms:
- Attribution is only required if used outside a local church context (e.g. on your own website; you must link back to this site). If used in a local church context (e.g. for producing music in the local church, displaying slides), attribution is appreciated, though not at all required.
- No commercial activity (i.e. selling these works or your own works based on these works) is permitted. This material is made freely available for the church to use, and no individual or group is to use these resources for their own enrichment.
- If you create new works based on these materials, you must license use under the same terms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Invaluable Resources Elsewhere
There are a couple of websites that need a shout out here, because they are an invaluable resource for information about hymns and for producing music in notation software.
I use this site mostly for grabbing public domain lyrics (and often plugging them into the hyphenator, below), but there is so much more to it than that. It has cross references, multiple hymnals, and so much more.
This site is an amazing resource; you can paste in words and with one button they will become hyphenated. This makes it much, much faster to input lyrics into notation software than typing them in by hand. There are caveats, as with anything, but this will get you 95% of the way to where you need to be.