CFC Music Ministry Guidelines

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Vision Statement
A World United in Christ through Music
Mission Statement
Led by the Holy Spirit, We Will Proclaim Christ’s Love and Message
with Songs in our Hearts and Harmony in our Voices, all for the Glory of God.
In CFC we follow a Worship Pattern.

A basic worship pattern is important as this will put order in the sequence
and flow of the worship segments. Unless a basic pattern in worship is followed,
it will be difficult for the people to open and surrender themselves to the
prodding and leading of the Holy Spirit.
A typical worship at the start of a CFC gathering includes the following
• Gathering song - This signals the assembly to settle down and allow the
Spirit to move and draw all to a posture of worship
• Exhortation of Leader- Encouraging words from the worship leader to set
the atmosphere of worship. It should be short, not more than 5 minutes.
• Praise and worship songs (3 songs: 2 fast and 1 slow) with spontaneous
praising;
• Praising and singing in the Spirit (separate workshop on praising in
tongues; define briefly what praising and singing in tongues is as
distinguished from speaking in tongues)
• Silence followed by inspired readings or prophecy and revelations
• Prayers. If in a household, there are thanksgiving and lifting up of concerns
of the worshippers and ending in a structured prayer like Our Father, Hail
Mary, and Glory Be. If in a corporate worship or big gathering, the worship
leader prays a general prayer and ends with a structured prayer
The CLP Music Leader makes sure that all his members strictly follow the
decorum set for singing in the opening prayer for the entire CLP;
* Module One - no clapping, no dancing, only gentle swaying.
* Module Two - clapping and gentle swaying.
* Module Three - full charismatic worship: dancing, clapping, raising of
hands and singing in tongues.
Recommended Songs for Every Talk

Below are the songs that are relevant to the talks or activities of each week. You
may choose 2-3 songs to teach out of the 4-5 song choices .
Module One: The Basic Truths About Christianity

Talk 1: God’s Love God is Enough, Sure Foundation, You Alone Are Holy, Mighty
King of Zion, Oh Hallelujah
Talk 2: Who is Jesus Christ Beloved, Lord Jesus We Enthrone You, All I Want, Let us
Exalt His Name Forever, Fix My Eyes on Jesus
Talk 3: What it Means to be a Christian Follow You, Strong and Faithful, The
People of God, You are My Delight, Open
the Eyes of my Heart
Talk 4: Repentance and Faith Redeeming Love, Refiner’s Fire, Salvation
Belongs To Our God, God is my Refuge,
Module Two: The Authentic Christian Life

Talk 5: Loving God To Love You and to Make You Loved, Blessing and Glory, Holy
O Holy, Psalm 100, Ascribe Greatness, Who is Like Thee
Talk 6: Loving Your Neighbor You’re My Disciples, Love One Another, A New
Commandment, Father Make Us One
Talk 7: Christian Family Prepare the Way, Worship The Lord, We Belong to God,
Come Let us Go Up, Psalm 95
Talk 8: Life in the Holy Spirit Spirit of the Living God, Pour and Flow, Make My
Heart Your Dwelling Place, Lord I Lift Your Name on
High
Module Three: Living a Spirit filled Christian Life

Talk 9: Receiving the Power of the Holy Spirit You Shall Be Clothed With Power,
Ablaze, Let the Fire Fall, Come Holy
Spirit
Commitment to Christ Create In Me
Pray-Over Session You Are Near, Come Holy Spirit, Enter In, Isaiah 43, God
Alone, Ascribe to the Lord, Be Exalted O God, Glorify Thy
Name, My God and My All, Salvation Belongs to our God, O
Come Let us Worship, O Send Forth Your Light and Your Truth,
Only By Grace, Thanks Be To God, Abide O Lord, Strong and
Faithful, I Offer My Life (all CFC slow songs in the Glory song
book may apply)
Talk 10: Growing in the Spirit Grateful, Heaven, God With us Emmanuel, As
the Deer
Talk 11: Life and Mission of Couples For Christ Couples For Christ Theme
(not for praise and worship), People
of God, I Give My All, The Voice of
One Calling in the Desert, As the
Deer
Talk 12: Transformation in Christ We’ll be Faithful, Victory to our King, Let
the Saints Be Joyful, O Send Forth Your
Light and Your Truth
Dedication Here I am Lord, Welcome to the Family, The Mission
Lord’s Day The Lord Reigns, The Light of Christ, Taste and See, Shine Jesus
Shine
The 4 P’s for a successful music ministry :

1. Prayer
a. Always pray together (before and after rehearsals, before and after
an event)
b. Attend your household meetings and assemblies regularly
c. The music ministry should as a team have regular retreats,
teachings, bible studies and rehearsal camps. This builds unity and
spirituality of the members.
2. Practice
a. Regular practices are important- at least twice a month for about 4
hours each rehearsal. The general rule should be, no practice-no
service except if the absence is for a valid reason.
b. Enhance your skills. Practice regularly on your own. This also saves
time of learning songs during group rehearsals.
c. Practices should be productive and must start and end on time.
Avoid idle time.
d. Always review old songs and learn new songs each practice day.
Make sure that the songs are sung according to the original music
score. Remember, since you are the music ministry, the people will
always assume that you are singing it correctly.
e. Regular practice allows you to be cohesive as a team. It is ideal
during worship that you focus less on the technical and focus more
on God.
f. Practice with the worship leaders, especially for praisefests.
g. Make your practices an opportunity to worship the Lord.
3. Playing for God alone
a. Always remind yourself that the music ministry is there for God and
God alone. Take God away and the music ministry becomes simply a
band performing for themselves and for the audience.
b. Be attentive and focused to the promptings of the Spirit (through
the worship leader during worship)
c. You must be able to draw the community to praise and worship God.
d. Do not create distractions that will put people’s focus on yourself. A
good music ministry must be effective but not attracting attention
to themselves. In a way he must be invisible to the audience,
instead of seeing you, they are seeing God in you.
4. Pastoral Care for Music Ministry members
a. The music ministry head must be able to discern and suggest the
pastoral needs of his members and relay them to his/her pastoral
head.
b. Conduct regular music min talks, inviting good speakers to sustain
the spiritual growth of members.
c. Make sure that all members of the music ministry have households
and attend all teachings required.
d. After the opening worship, the music ministry must remain in the
venue to listen to all the talks and teachings. Discourage members
from leaving the venue and coming back only for the closing song.
NOTE: This form should be given to the discerned worship leader , 1 week prior to
worship and give it back to music coordinator for reference.
Date: ___________
Dear Brother _________
As one of the Worship Leaders tasked to lead the CFC body to worship during any
CFC events. The following worship format/songs will be used/ practiced by the
Music Ministry (following the usual format of CFC corporate worship):
1. EXHORTATION
2. PRAISE and WORSHIP
...... 1st praise song - _________________________..... Followed by simultaneous
praising
...... 2nd praise song – ______________ __________ ..... Followed by praising in
tongues
....... Worship song – ________________________ ..... Followed by singing in
tongues
(If after the singing in tongues the worship leader still wants to have a 2nd
worship song, he can
say a prayer that will lead to the 2nd worship song – a short song followed
by singing in tongues.
Please inform us early as per notes below).
3. PRAYER FOR THANKSGIVING
4. PRAYER FOR CONCERNS
5. OUR FATHER (end with “For Yours is the kingdom the power and the glory now
and forever, Amen”)
6. HAIL MARY ... GLORY BE
NOTES:
1. The songs have been discerned using the theme of the talks during the event
and are familiar to the community from all areas so they can participate more
fully in the worship. Teaching of new songs is provided a fixed time slot in the
said event. You may however revise the songs; please ensure your revisions are
forwarded to the music ministry head (Name and email address) within a week
after receiving this email so it can be practiced and reproduced in a power point
visual for the event.
2. Please ensure that the whole worship is kept within a time frame of 15
minutes. The worship leader should carefully discern leadings by the Holy Spirit if
he has to extend the worship time frame to more than 15 minutes or change the
song line-up during the worship itself.
3. On the prayers for thanksgiving and for concerns, please try to ensure that
these are related specifically to the event. These need not be very specific
prayers as done in households.

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Our Logo

In CFC we follow a Worship Pattern.

Recommended Songs for Every Talk

Module One: The Basic Truths About Christianity

Module Two: The Authentic Christian Life

Module Three: Living a Spirit filled Christian Life

The 4 P’s for a successful music ministry :

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