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"Hope is Our Song"
Karaoke CD - Roald & Lucy Barthow

If you use the NZ Hymnbook Trust's latest book, "Hope is Our Song", there is a new karaoke CD with a selection of 29 of the songs from that book. It was launched at the These Hills workshops led by Colin Gibson and Val Riches in Te Kuiti and Bellblock, New Plymouth, in June.
Played and recorded in Karaoke style by Lucy and Roald Barthow, of Thames, on a KN7000 keyboard, taking care in the correct speed etc, it is a truly enjoyable CD.
For each song, the unaccompanied melody is played through once, followed by the correct number of verses played with accompaniament so a congregation can first hear the tune then sing the whole song.
 
This new CD is invaluable for learning the songs, to listen to as we work or play, or to help congregational singing in small churches.
 
Copyright permission has been granted for this CD by all the composers represented.
 
Songs on this CD are:-
HiOS 1 A Pinch of Salt
HiOS 6 Always these's a Carol
HiOS 9 Beautiful Presence
HiOS 10 Because you came
HiOS 13 Bring in Your New World
HiOS 15 Christ has Changed the World's Direction
HiOS 18 Come Fill the Cup with the Water of Life
HiOS 19 Deep in the Human Heart
HiOS 30 Friend in Christ
HiOS 35(11) Go gently Go lightly
HiOS 49 God was in Christ
HiOS 81 Jumping Jesus
HiOS 87 Let our Earth be Peaceful
HiOS 92 Look Around You
HiOS 93 Look in Wonder
HiOS 95 Love is Your way
HiOS 99 Matthew was a Lonely Man
HiOS 103 No I've never seen an Angel
HiOS 105 Now the Star of Christmas
HiOS 106 O God to You I cry in Pain
HiOS 110 On a Cool and Autumn Dawn
HiOS 113 Peace is not Fighting
HiOS 117 Rockin' the Boat
HiOS 118 Simply to Be
HiOS 121 Snap out of it Lord
HiOS 123 (1) Something's Dead inside Me
HiOS 127 Take a Grape
HiOS 153 Where the Light of Easter Day
HiOS 154 (1) Who Sweeps the Stable

After initially producing the CDs individually, on their home equipment, the Barthows found the demand justified having them produced in Wellington.
Cost of the CD is $20.00 posted with the discount to $15.00 at some events eg those associated with the Hymnbook Trust.
Epworth Books hold a demo copy of the CD, and ordering details.
 
Please send your order to:- Roald and Lucy Barthow email or post to
REM and AL Barthow
212 Reservoir Road
Thames 3500
Cheques should be made out to REM and AL Barthow.
A BNZ deposit form with the barthows' bank account number (that can be used for direct deposits) will be sent with CDs posted.
 
13 August 2010

The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust,
the Taranaki Bishopric,
and the SW Region of Kaimai Presbytery
together held "These Hills Workshops"
in Te Kuiti and Bell Block, New Plymouth in June.

Colin Gibson workshop
Approximately 23 people from Taranaki joined with Colin, Dean Val and Gaynor (who had arranged for the Workshop to take place) at St Luke’s on Monday night 14th June. We had no real idea of what to expect and by the time the evening was over we were really excited. What an interesting time it was. Colin spoke about hymn writing in New Zealand and about the ideas and New Zealand images that are in the hymns. He shared the stories behind some of them and how they came to be written. It was really good to hear these stories and to look at the words in a new light. I suspect most of us had never really looked at the imagery in hymns before and I believe that we will be looking at Hymns in a very different way now. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to take part in this workshop.
Jan Cox, Licensed Lay Administrator.
St Luke’s Church, Bell Block.
 
Report of These Hills Workshops - Organiser's Viewpoint
We held two "These Hills Workshops"
on 12th June in Te Kuiti, and 14th in Bell Block.
Colin Gibson led topics
"NZ Imagery in Worship" and
"Lay leadership in Worship".
Rev Val Riches led
"Listening to the Stories".
 
Colin discussed the theme of hymns expressing a New Zealand identity through their images of the landscape. He explained why some older hymns, feeding the nostalgia for UK and Europe in colonial days, no longer have relevance to NZers today, and pointied out those aspects of certain hymns that show the expertise of writers like Bill Bennett and Shirley Erena Murray. His second topic centred round the authenticity of lay leadership in worship as modeled by Jesus and in the early Christian Church; the giftedness we all have so that all can share in the tasks of leadership; and the need for parishes to nurture emerging skills in their members.
 
Val demonstrated how our pastoral ministries gain new direction when we understand where the people involved have come from. One example she used was of passengers in a bus annoyed that a father was not controlling his children's noise etc. When someone spoke to him about it, he explained they had just come from the hospital where his wife had died two hours earlier. Everyone in the bus became more understanding and helpful. Val also opened our eyes to the background of the Sunday's lectionary readings.
 
This workshop project was sparked by the combination of my concern for the SW corner of Kaimai Presbytery and my desire, after the NZ Hymnbook Trust's Labour Weekend Conference, to bring Colin to speak in my part of the country. I was brought face to face with how geographically remote we are, and yet Colin's name brought people flocking to us from Putaruru, Matamata, Hamilton, Pukekohe, and Auckland, as well as exciting those more local.
 
We ran one workshop in Te Kuiti on Sat 12th June (50+ attended), and another in Bellblock, New Plymouth on Monday evening (23 attended), with all local churches invited. At the end of each workshop people were very enthused. So I asked those gathered if they would like me to get Colin back in 18 months time and got resounding applause. People from further afield told me they will support us in future similar events. They were delighted that we included workshop topics relating to Lay Leadership.
 
These Hills Workshops were advertised widely as a combination of SW Presbytery, The NZ Hymnbook Trust, and the Anglican Taranaki Bishopric.
 
The NZ Hymnbook Trust encouraged us, supported us with much needed advice, and paid for a lot of the advertising. Our sales table sold over $1100 worth of the Trust's books and CDs, and twenty Karaoke CDs produced by Roald and Lucy Barthow of songs from the latest book, Hope is Our Song.
 
The Bishopric booked Colin's flights enabling us to get the earlybird fares totalling $380 as opposed to the ordinary fare of about $680.
 
We effectively broke even. Registration was free but we encouraged donations towards our expenses - which were mainly Colin's fares, petrol travelling him between planes, and local advertising.
 
Pat Gibb and Terry Tutty did the on the ground organisation for the Te Kuiti workshop, held at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. I consulted parishes for topics, invited tutors, and saw to travel arrangements and advertising, with a lot of welcome advice from Colin, John Thornley (manager of the Hymnbook Trust), and Rev Val Riches (Regional Dean, NE Taranaki - Anglican) who organised the Bellblock event.
 
I thoroughly enjoyed showing Colin two local waterfalls and the limestone features of our landscape. My husband had hot meals waiting for us each evening.
 
The workshops were such a success that we have established a group "Ecumenical Workshops - KC&T" (short for King Country & Taranaki) to run more twin-venue events, held in Te Kuiti / Piopio and Bellblock Churches. In this sparsely populated area it is important to share our events across denominational and geographical boundaries. We have opened a bank account and hope to build up a 'kitty' for paying travel bookings in advance. We will mostly find North Island leaders to keep travel costs down. We'll welcome ideas for workshop topics and suggestions of possible leaders.
 
Next Event - Practical Workshops on 12 &13th March 2011,
[1] Roy Tankersley teaching us the songs and how to teach them to our congregations,
[2] Malcolm Gordon initiating us to writing hymn verses, and
[3] an aspect of Lay Leadership (Te Kuiti only).
 
Gaynor McCartney
11 July 2010

NZ Hymns to Match Lectionary Readings

The Hymnbook Trust prepares a Quarterly listing of NZ hymns matched to the Lectionary readings, for publication in MediaCom, an Australian-based copyright agency linked to LicenSing. For each Sunday the worship leader will find two suggested songs. The songs chosen not only relate to the Bible readings but also reflect the changing festivals of the annual church calendar, from Advent to Creation. Listings are published at least two months early.
 
The Hymnbook Trust would appreciate feedback on the use and value of this resource.
Contact John and Gillian Thornley, email
 
All hymns listed are covered by copyright. The Trust thanks all parish and national church offices for ensuring that copyright charges are met. If any parish or church is not linked to a copyright scheme, please take this responsibility seriously, and sign up to one of the existing programmes: LicenSing/MediaCom, CCLI, Word of Life, are three recommended agencies.
18th February 2010

From the NZ Hymnbook Trust

Hope is our Song Reprint Now Available.
 
Purchase through your usual bookshop supplier, or direct from the Hymnbook Trust order either through email or Website.
Price $30.00 plus p&p.
14 January 2010

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