When I am leading worship as a guest somewhere, I like to provide them with a list of songs I generally use. This way we can come up with a list that we are both familiar with, make sure worship slides are created ahead of time and we are on the same page.
Here is my list of songs I generally use when leading worship at camps, retreats, and guest worship leading.
All in All
Alleluia-Russell Martin
Amazing Grace My Chains are Gone
Anyone But You- Kerri Crocker
Awaken Our Hearts
Better is One Day
Blessed Be Your Name
Breathe
Brother Friend
Come Now is the Time To WOrship
Days of Elijah
Enough
Everlasting God
Every Day
Every Move I Make
Everywhere I Go
Famous One
Forever
From the Inside Out
God of this City
God of Wonders
Grace Like Rain
Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing)
Happy Song
He Reigns
Here I Am to Worship
Hosanna
How Great is Our God
How He Loves
I Could Sing of Your Love Forever
I Saw the Light
I Stand Amazed
I Surrender All
I Will Not Forget You
I Will Rise
I’ll Fly Away
Jesus Messiah
Jesus Paid it All
Lead Me To the Cross
Let Everything That Has Breath
Lord I Lift Your Name on High
Lord Let your Love
Matchless
Meet With me
Mighty to Save
More Precious than Silver
My Savior Lives
My Savior My God
O Praise Him
One Way
Open The Eyes Of My Heart
Our Great God
Our Love is Loud
Power of Your Love
Revelation Song
Shout to the Lord
Tell the World
The Stand
Today is the Day
Undignified
Victory in Jesus
We Fall Down
Wonder of Your Love
You Never Let Go
Your Grace is Enough
Your Love is Amazing
This list subject to change
[...] I recently had the opportunity to be a guest worship leader at a church on a trip to Houston. We made the arrangements and I was to send them a list of the songs I would be using that morning. I chose several songs I thought would work and emailed those to them. A few days later I received a phone call. “Russell, these are great songs… we just don’t know most of them.” We then spent about 15 minutes trying to go back and forth and find out what songs they had that I knew, which ones I did that they knew etc. I realized then that I know pretty well the songs that our home church does and are familiar with. I cannot however take for granted that other churches sing the same songs. And while I definitely love teaching new songs, I don’t want to introduce too many in a guest worship leader situation. So here is what I decided. I will create a list of the songs I sing. Not necessarily those I do at my home church, but those that I generally use when I am leading either by guitar or piano at camps, retreats, and guest worship leader situations. This way when someone calls and asks me to lead worship, I can send them to the page, and they can at least let me know what songs their congregation is familiar with. Click for the Songs I Sing [...]