Mission Praise

Mission Praise is a hymn book used in a wide variety of churches, especially in Britain, including the Church of Scotland and the Church of England. The 2009 edition contains 1250 hymns and songs.

It originated as Mission England Praise, prepared for Billy Graham's 1984 Mission England campaign. In its "words only" form, it was a thin booklet of 282 pieces, with a wide mixture of hymns and worship songs. Some conservative Christians saw it as a way of bringing what they perceived as charismatic choruses into mainstream church worship.

Mission Praise has been through a number of editions. The second booklet (Mission Praise 2), came out in 1987, and contained songs 283 to 647.

The various editions have owed much to The Jubilate Group for their copyright controlled hymnody.

A new edition Mission Praise Combined was released in 1993; featuring an extra two hundred songs; expanding the collection from 647 to 798 items and renumbering and reindexing all items in approximate alphabetical order.

In 1999, Complete Mission Praise was published, increasing the number of hymns to 1021.

The 2005 edition, produced under the Collins imprint, adds a further 123 songs from the last few years.

Complete Mission Praise: 25th Anniversary Edition was published in 2009 and added another 106 new songs resulting in 1250 overall.

The editions subsequent to 1993 maintain the numeric sequence of the songs in the previous editions, resulting in several separate alphabetical sequences of songs in the latest edition.

In January 2008, Mission Praise became the first major hymnbook to be available online. The new website enables subscribers to access words, sheet music and MIDI files of the songs in Mission Praise and its sister products Carol Praise and Junior Praise.

External links

• Mission Praise Online - official website
• Publisher's Details of "Complete Mission Praise" Music Edition
• Publisher's Details of "Complete Mission Praise" Words only Edition
• Publisher's Details of "Complete Mission Praise 25th Anniversary" Music Edition
• Publisher's Details of "Complete Mission Praise 25th Anniversary" Words only Edition
• Editions of "Complete Mission Praise"
• Jubilate Group web-site

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