Build worship sets around your message. Choose a theme, purpose and length, compare complete sets, then adjust keys on the circle of fifths. Sermon, charts, service timing and volunteer assignments stay together.
Often replaces a standalone services planner, and the group-text + Drive workflow around Sunday.
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Stewara Worship is church service-planning software for sermons, worship sets, charts, running times and volunteers. Start with the message, choose a theme, and compare complete sets shaped by purpose, length, song history and key transitions. Review the suggestions and keep control of the final plan. Worship is part of the Stewara suite, alongside member care, giving, check-in and fund accounting.
A short, real walkthrough of Worship in Stewara. No sign-up required to watch.
Here is the same fictional Sunday you can try in the demo. The song choices, keys and running times below come from Stewara’s planning engine.
Ephesians 2:8–10, “Grace that changes how we live.” Choose Grace as the theme, Worship set as the role, and four songs as the length. In this public example, the theme is prepared; the demo does not interpret an arbitrary passage.
The builder offers three candidates: all familiar, one song you’re teaching, and a quieter set. It weighs the theme tags in your library, song history, energy and key transitions. A leader reviews the reasons and chooses a set.
| Song | Key | Length | Why it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| To God Be the Glory | G | 5 min | on grace · rested 14 weeks · sits right for this spot |
| At Calvary | G | 4 min | on grace · up 2 to G · stays where the last one ended · rested 14 weeks · sits right for this spot |
| Come Thou Fount | D | 4 min | on grace · a fifth from the last · rested 14 weeks · sits right for this spot |
| Grace Greater Than Our Sin | A | 4 min | on grace · a fifth from the last · rested 14 weeks · sits right for this spot |
For this set, the first two songs are in G and G. Change the second song to D: the transition from G to D is a fifth. The circle-of-fifths wheel and flow strip update together. Your band’s and congregation’s comfortable range still matters.
With a 10:00 AM start, a four-minute welcome, this set, a 24-minute sermon and a three-minute benediction, the service ends at 10:48 AM. A 29-minute sermon moves the benediction from 10:45 AM to 10:50 AM and the finish to 10:53 AM. Assign the set leader on the plan.
The same sample data is used for everyone. No signup, customer records or messages are involved. The demo’s hymn titles have fictional arrangement metadata; it supplies no licensed lyrics or charts.
The sample shows how planning works. In your trial, add songs or import your song list from CSV, review the keys and tags, and add your people before scheduling your team. Your church’s repertoire and preferences make the plan yours.
Song CSV import includes titles, authors, keys, tempo, CCLI numbers and tags. Lyrics, licensed charts, existing service plans and team assignments do not transfer with that list.
D is the IV of A: the band drops a fourth, then steps up into E. Nothing jumps.
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.
D is the IV of A: the band drops a fourth, then steps up into E. Nothing jumps.
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.
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.
Put the title and passage at the top of the plan, then choose the theme the music should support. The team can see the message alongside the songs and service order.
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.
Suggestions consider the relationship between keys: same key, a fourth, a fifth, or relative major/minor. Pick one and compare the transition with the range your musicians and congregation can sing.
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 trialPut sermon title and Scripture on the plan, then choose a theme to match. The set builder uses your library’s theme tags. The trial does not automatically interpret Scripture.
Choose the set’s purpose and length, compare complete candidates, then adjust keys on the circle of fifths. Paste chords, preview the conversion and transpose authorized charts.
Custom teams, positions, blockouts, and a read-only mobile schedule. Charts and running-clock order stay on the same page.
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.
The set builder proposes complete sets from your library using a chosen theme, purpose, length, song history and key relationships. It explains the candidates; a worship leader chooses which to apply and can adjust the keys. This is planning assistance, not an assessment of a song’s theology or your congregation’s vocal range.
No. Record the passage and choose the theme yourself; the builder matches songs using your library’s theme tags. Automatic Scripture interpretation is not included in the trial. The public demo uses prepared sermon themes.
Yes. Try the sample church without signing up, then plan a service during the trial alongside your current system. There is no automatic migration or live synchronization of another planner’s service plans. Review people CSV imports, rebuild households, and plan giving-history and licensed-chart handling before switching.
Yes. The plan can show capo shapes without changing the service’s sounding key, and web and mobile views stay in agreement.
Start from last Sunday clones a prior plan in one click. Duplicate any service when you need a second gathering.
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.
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