Fork In The Road Music » UM ARMY

College UM ARMY Songs

Russell Martin — Sun, 30 May 2010 04:39:15 +0000

A few weeks ago I had the awesome opportunity to lead worship for a great group of college students and adults at College UM ARMY. It was great to have the opportunity to start and end our day with worship for 6 days in a row. After one of the services someone came up and asked if they could get a copy of some of the songs, to take back to their church.

So here it is. The College UM ARMY Worship songlist. Each song is listed, along with a link to where you can download it. (most often itunes)

All in All

Amazing Grace My Chains are Gone

Brother Friend

Halle lu Halle lu Halle lu YAH

More Precious than Silver

The Songs I Sing

Russell Martin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:13:10 +0000

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

Requested Songs- College UM ARMY

Russell Martin — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:05:00 +0000

Last week I had the awesome privilege of leading worship for 170 people at College UM ARMY. Before heading to camp I had sent out a request for people to send me the songs they wanted to use during the week. Although I got very few beforehand, I got several requests in the request box during the week. Here are most of the songs that were requested during the week.

Better is One Day
Walk By Faith
Enough
If We Are The Body
Light The Fire
Open The Eyes Of MY Heart Lord
Forever
Alabaster Jar
Shout Unto God
Come Thou Fount
Prince of Peace (You Are Holy)
True Love
Don’t Feed the Bears
If We Are The Body
You Said
Sing to the King
Word of God Speak
Shout to the Lord
Beautiful Scandalous Night

I really enjoyed having the request box there because it gave me place for feedback and to see what songs they connect with.

Do you just choose the songs you are going to do, or do you have some way to get feedback in your services or camps?

I Need Your Suggestions- College UM Army Songs

Russell Martin — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:40:09 +0000

Next week comes one of my favorite weeks of the year. I have been asked again to lead music for College UM ARMY. During this week teams of college students, from all over, spend a week working on houses in the Houston area. This will be at least the fourth time I have had the privilege to participate in this wonderful work camp.
Last year we did something new that I thought worked really well. We set out a box and just asked for participants to send in their song requests for us to use in worship. Having 150 people participating there was no way we would be able to do all the songs requested but it gave me a good list of ideas to use.
I was surprised last year at the requests. They were for mostly “older” songs.. This year I am not sure what to expect so I am hoping we can start the process early by getting some suggestions from you. If you were going to lead worship for a group of college students for a week what songs or types of songs would you suggest?

Events

Russell Martin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:48:23 +0000

Almost every Sunday Morning I am leading worship at Williams Memorial UMC for the Xperience service. I also like sharing my music with other groups. Here is my upcoming schedule for the summer so far. If you are interested in me leading worship for your group, retreat, camp or service please contact me.

Currently Scheduling events for Spring and Summer

Welcome