StewaraStart from Scripture
Sermon title and Scripture are first-class fields on every service plan. Planning help and song suggestions build from that passage.
- Sermon and Scripture on the plan
- Suggestions from the passage
- Start from last Sunday
Worship planning
Start Sunday with Scripture, not a set list.
Put the sermon and passage at the top of the plan. Song suggestions favor keys that flow on the circle of fifths. Charts, teams, and timing stay on one page, not a folder of songs plus a Saturday group text.
Often replaces a standalone services planner, and the group-text + Drive workflow around Sunday.
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- 1Scripture hub Sermon and passage sit at the top of the plan.
- 2Playable keys Suggestions score circle-of-fifths flow.
- 3One team page Charts, assignments, and timing stay together.
What Worship is, and what it isn’t.
Worship is the service-planning workspace for sermon and Scripture, songs, charts, assignments, and volunteer responses. The passage sits at the top of the plan. Song suggestions score keys that flow on the circle of fifths. Charts and the team schedule stay on one page, and CCLI closeout is a worksheet you record. Stewara does not send data to CCLI.
See it in action
A short, real walkthrough of Worship in Stewara. No sign-up required to watch.
You choose the songs for the message. It makes them playable.
8/23/26
Nothing Can Separate Us — Romans 8:38-39
63mPLANNED10:00 AM start18m overtarget 45m11:03 AMENDS ABOUT
Flow
A · 120→ sameA · 124→ IVD · 70→ stepE · 68
Upbeat → Driving → Ballad → Ballad
D is the IV of A: the band drops a fourth, then steps up into E. Nothing jumps.
- PRE-SERVICE
- 10:00 AMCountdown & Welcomeleader5m
- WORSHIP SET
- 10:05 AMHouse of the LordAJordan5m
- 10:10 AMThis Is Amazing GraceAJordan5m
- 10:15 AMKing of KingsDJordan5m
- 10:20 AMWelcome & Offeringleader4m
- MESSAGE
- 10:24 AMMessage — Nothing Can Separate Us (Romans 8:38-39)Michael32m
- RESPONSE
- 10:56 AMWay MakerEJordan5m
- 11:01 AMBenedictionleader2m
The third song is yours.
Easy to play. It is about the Cross, not about this Sunday. D is the IV of A: the band drops a fourth, then steps up into E. Nothing jumps.
Grace Harbor is our demo church, never a testimonial. This is one of its service plans drawn as real type, wired to nothing. The key chain, the tempo arc and the clock under it are computed by the same functions the product ships.
You choose the songs for the message. It makes them playable.
8/23/26
Nothing Can Separate Us — Romans 8:38-39
63mPLANNED10:00 AM start18m overtarget 45m11:03 AMENDS ABOUT
Flow
A · 120→ sameA · 124→ IVD · 70→ stepE · 68
Upbeat → Driving → Ballad → Ballad
D is the IV of A: the band drops a fourth, then steps up into E. Nothing jumps.
- PRE-SERVICE
- 10:00 AMCountdown & Welcomeleader5m
- WORSHIP SET
- 10:05 AMHouse of the LordAJordan5m
- 10:10 AMThis Is Amazing GraceAJordan5m
- 10:15 AMKing of KingsDJordan5m
- 10:20 AMWelcome & Offeringleader4m
- MESSAGE
- 10:24 AMMessage — Nothing Can Separate Us (Romans 8:38-39)Michael32m
- RESPONSE
- 10:56 AMWay MakerEJordan5m
- 11:01 AMBenedictionleader2m
The third song is yours.
Easy to play. It is about the Cross, not about this Sunday. D is the IV of A: the band drops a fourth, then steps up into E. Nothing jumps.
The whole thing
This is the plan, an hour before anyone arrives.
Order of service, running clock, who is leading what. Twelve rows that have to survive contact with a Sunday morning, and one of them decides all the others.
First
The message goes in first.
Stewara asks for the title and the passage at the top of the plan, before a single song. Every other tool opens on an empty set list and asks what you would like to sing.
Then
Then the songs go under it.
You match them to what you are preaching — Cornerstone is filed under Hope and Faith, which is what Romans 8 is about — and the plan re-times itself around whatever you choose.
And
And the keys have to chain.
Suggestions score the circle of fifths, not just the subject: same key, a fourth, a fifth, a relative minor. A jump is a fight. Pick one and watch the chain re-form.
Grace Harbor is our demo church, never a testimonial. This is one of its service plans drawn as real type, wired to nothing. The key chain, the tempo arc and the clock under it are computed by the same functions the product ships.
Plan Thursday from the passage.
Start your 30-day trialWhat it does, grouped by the job.
Shape a playable set
Suggestions score circle-of-fifths key flow. Paste chords, preview the conversion, transpose live, and show capo shapes without changing the sounding key.
- Circle-of-fifths scoring
- Chords-over-lyrics import
- Sounding key and capo shapes
Hand the team one plan
Custom teams, positions, blockouts, and a read-only mobile schedule. Charts and running-clock order stay on the same page.
- Assignments by position
- Mobile My Schedule
- Running-clock order of service
Also includedEvery Worship feature, in one list
- Sermon title and Scripture as first-class fields on every service plan
- Planning help and song suggestions driven by the plan's sermon and passage
- Song suggestions scored for circle-of-fifths key flow (same, fifth, fourth, relative)
- Song library sortable by key on the circle of fifths
- Plain-text chords-over-lyrics import with before/after preview and one-step undo
- Major + minor transposition, semitone controls, and explicit sounding-key / capo-shape display
- ChordPro charts with live, transposable web and mobile views
- Drag-to-reorder order of service with running-clock timing
- "Start from last Sunday": clone a prior plan in one click
- Duplicate any service plan
- Song library: search by title, author, or tag
- Upload PDF or image charts when you'd rather not re-type
- "Not played in weeks" nudge keeps the set list fresh
- Custom teams (Band, Vocals, Tech, Hosts) with a team leader
- Custom positions per team
- Volunteer scheduling by position, per service
- Availability / blockout board: see who's out before you schedule
- Read-only "My Schedule" for volunteers on mobile
- Post-service actual-use confirmation kept separate from the original plan
- Exception queue for unconfirmed songs, changed plans, and missing CCLI numbers
- Auditable CCLI preparation worksheet: CSV, print, service drill-down, checksum, and recorded-in-CCLI history
For switchers
If you're on Planning Center Services
- UsuallyAn order of service and a song folder. Scripture is optional, and key transitions are guesswork in a chat thread.With StewaraSermon and Scripture sit on the plan first. Song suggestions score circle-of-fifths key flow. Charts and team schedule stay on one page.
Next: the people on the schedule, and how they hear about it.
The objections, answered here.
Does Stewara submit our CCLI report?
No. Worship prepares an auditable actual-use worksheet: CSV, print, service drill-down, checksum, and a record that you later entered it in CCLI. It never calls a download “submitted,” and it does not send data to CCLI.
Do song suggestions pick the set for us?
No. They score keys that flow on the circle of fifths from the plan’s Scripture and history. A worship leader still chooses the songs.
Can musicians see capo shapes?
Yes. The plan can show capo shapes without changing the service’s sounding key, and web and mobile views stay in agreement.
What about last Sunday?
Start from last Sunday clones a prior plan in one click. Duplicate any service when you need a second gathering.
Included in the Stewara plan, and every plan above it.
Plan Thursday from the passage.
Scripture first, keys that transition, one plan for the team. Start your 30-day trial today: every module in the suite except Stewara Assistant, no card required.