What's on offer?

Training in music and worship

• At the parish level
  • Support and training for clergy, readers and worship teams
  • Input into PCC re. church worship
  • Full day or evening workshops for PCC or whole church on music and worship
  • Encouraging congregational singing
  • Help for Choirs or Music Groups
  • Advice on new hymnbooks, music for the Eucharist, or other new material
  • Church Worship Audits/Reviews

• At Deanery and Diocesan level
• Worship 4 Today Course for Worship Leaders and Musicians
• Events with the Ministry Mission Training and Development Team
• Sheffield Diocesan Worship and Liturgy Committee
• RSCM Sheffield and South Yorkshire Area
• Promoting music making among the young
• Local Song Writer's Network

Help we have no musicians!

• Advice on midi and sequencer systems
• Using CDs - e.g. No Organist No Problem/No Music Group No Problem, etc.
• Discovering hidden talent
• Borrowing musicians from a neighbouring parish
• Musical support and provision for Deanery or Diocesan events

Music for Mission

• Seasonal opportunities
• Worship out in the community - open air services and events
• Charity Concerts
• Working in Interfaith situations
• Use of music without singing

A Library of Liturgy for Special Occasions

• Celebrating special church anniversaries
• Building work - laying foundation stones, opening new buildings, etc.
• Closing Liturgies for redundant/closed churches
• Expressions of community joy or grief

Liturgical Commission Updates

• Transforming Worship Report and Transforming Worship Roadshows
• ‘Worship Changes Lives’ booklets for parish use
• Eucharistic Prayers for when significant numbers of children are present
• Information on Visual Liturgy Live

Advice on Copyright

• Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI)
• Church Copyright Licence
  to reproduce hymns and worship song words
• Music Reproduction Licence (MRL)
  to photocopy song music or words from authorised publications
• Copyright Licensing Agency Church Licence (CLA)
  photocopy from any non-music books, magazines and publications
• Church Video Licence (CVL)
  play film scenes during times of worship
  play films or film scenes outside times of worship
• Performing Right Society Church Licence (PRS for Music)
  play music (live or on CD) outside times of worship for social activities
• Limited Manufacture Licence (LML)
  Make audio or video recordings for limited sale and distribution to the general public.
• Wedding Video Recording Licence (WVRL)
  for weddings when camcorders are used and music is recorded
• Calamus Licence
• for many Roman Catholic publications
  St Thomas More Group
  OCP
  The Grail
• Taizé
• Bernadette Farrell

Advice on Payment /Non-payment of Church Organists and Musicians

For further information, please contact Helen on

Telephone : 01709 - 363850
Email : helen@thebents.co.uk