The Church Pianist: The Invitation

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As a church pianist, you all know that the invitation
is a crucial time. It's a time when many make life-
changing decisions.

Sometimes the pastor has me play while he's talking
during the invitation.

I try to convey a reflective yet urgent mood as pastor
encourages people to come forward as God leads.

Here is an audio sample of how I might play the background
music for the invitation:

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The Church Pianist: Invitation Tip

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Here's a helpful invitation tip for church pianists.

Make a list of 'most used' invitation songs at your
church on a 3x5 card. Be sure to put the page
number beside each song.

Tape it inside the front cover of your hymnal for
easy reference.

Our previous pastor use to have us just play an
invitation hymn of our choice. Sometimes our
current pastor does so.

In this case, it's best to number the invitation songs
#1 through however many songs you have listed.

During invitation prayer, the one pianist just signals to the
other pianist by showing the number of fingers
that represents the number of the song on the list.

Maybe this invitation tip will give you other ideas that
may work better for your pianists at invitation time.