WORSHIP TEAM
USING ONSONG TO ORGANIZE MY WORSHIP | Dakota Kibler
If you’re anything like me and loved worship that. By simply connecting the iPads to the songs and setlists one step further by allowing
when you were a teenager, odds are that you same WiFi network, our worship leader was one iPad to control the song selection and
too joined your church’s youth worship team as able to instantly “beam” his entire setlist from scrolling behaviors of other iPads as long
soon as you possibly could. Some of the most his iPad to all of the other iPads for the team. as they are all connected to the same WiFi
significant periods of personal and spiritual I suddenly did not need to spend any more network. Practically, this meant that our leader
growth that I ever experienced came from time pulling songs from my binder. I could now could scroll through the songs in his setlist, and
my time playing bass and drums in my youth directly access our leader’s setlist, select songs the band’s iPads would automatically do the
group’s worship band. Nothing got me more with the tap of a finger, and not even have to same without us even needing to touch them!
excited than spending countless hours with worry about putting my songs away afterwards! No longer did I have to take my hands away
the band worshipping the Lord with the abilities Finally, I could focus more on what mattered from my instrument to select or scroll through
that He blessed us with. most to me- worship -and focus much less a song. When our leader navigated through
on organizing, modifying, and reordering my OnSong on his iPad, everyone else’s iPads
songs. followed suit exactly. This was truly lightyears
However, there was one specific part of
worshipping with my youth band that I never away from my old days of looking through
looked forward to, and that was organizing endless sheets of paper trying to figure out in
and constructing each individual setlist. You
might know the feeling well- our worship
leader would come to practice with a handful
of paper songs, and the team and I had to
sift through our individual song binders to find
copies of the songs and reorder them to match
our leader’s playing order. I eventually ended
up alphabetizing my own binder to ease the
searching process, but this caused another
inconvenience when I then had to painstakingly
re-alphabetize my binder when putting the
songs back into it. The end result was a feeling
of annoyance mixed with a lot paper constantly
entering and exiting my increasingly messy
song binder.
This being said, you can only imagine my
excitement when our worship leader showed up
to practice one evening with a handful of iPads
and not a shred of paper in sight! He turned
on an iPad and introduced us to OnSong, an
app that was “going to revolutionize how we
When our
the moment which song or which section of a
song my leader was at!
leader
OnSong allows you to share songs and setlists
in many other ways as well. In addition to Beam
navigated
and Connect, for instance, OnSong also allows
you to send and receive songs through email,
through
AirDrop, Dropbox, Google Drive, and more!
OnSong on
This makes for the smoothest way possible
of organizing worship songs and setlists,
and it has aided my worship organization in
his iPad, innumerable ways. Of course, since we were
everyone always had because we were covered with our
in church, we could share our sheets like we
CCLI license. If you’re in a similar situation, you’ll
else’s iPads
want to make sure that you have permission to
distribute music to your team.
followed suit I can’t say it enough though - OnSong
exactly. organize my worship, and it can do the same
literally changed everything about how I
for you too! So, what are you waiting for?
worship” as he put it. To this day, nearly 7 years
Visit onsongapp.com today to learn more!
later, he was entirely accurate. OnSong had
arrived to forever change my worship.
Sharing songs and sets in OnSong through
wireless beaming was just one amazing way of
OnSong is an iOS application that allows you using iPads to organize our music instead of
to digitally store and share all your chord and song binders. As time went on, for example,
lyric charts from the convenience of your own our worship leader began utilizing the Connect
iPad- but it also does so much more than just function of OnSong. Connect takes beaming
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December 2018
Dakota Kibler
Dakota is the Marketing and Media Manager for
OnSong LLC. He has been a faithful OnSong user
for over 6 years and utilized OnSong long before
working as part of the OnSong team. He resides
in central Pennsylvania where he leads worship
and plays drums for several different churches and
worship teams.
OnSongApp.com
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