NZ Hymnbook Trust Set of Four Music Books - Print

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Hope is our Song: Music book 

Hope Is Our Song is an expansive and theologically adventurous collection, gathering a wide range of contemporary New Zealand hymn writers whose work spans creation care, peace, lament, resurrection hope, global justice, and the renewing work of God in community.

The hymns have bold imagery, honest emotion, and a willingness to address modern social challenges within a framework of Christian hope.

Its language is poetic yet grounded, consistently pointing towards healing, reconciliation, and God’s transforming presence.

Ministers and worship leaders will find this book an abundant resource for shaping services that speak credibly into today’s world, invite congregational participation, and hold together beauty, justice, and faith.

• 158 hymns, carols and songs by 48 New Zealand writers of words and music.
• Full keyboard settings for all songs and guitar chords for a selection of songs are provided.
• Format: 340pp, A5 laminated cover, wire binding.
• Published 2009.

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Faith Forever Singing: Music Book

Faith Forever Singing brings together a wide sweep of New Zealand hymn writing, offering congregations a stable backbone of liturgical and thematic material.

Its hymns consistently express gratitude, discipleship, the rhythm of the Christian seasons, and a practical faith shaped by prayer, justice, and community service.

Many texts emphasise the Spirit’s guidance, the call to follow Christ with integrity, and the need for hope in the face of human limitation.

Ministers and worship leaders will appreciate this volume for its breadth, its reliability in covering the full liturgical year, and its strong pastoral tone that supports everything from reflective services to energetic celebrations.

• 80 hymns and responses
• Words, music and guitar chords
• 196pp A5 laminated cover, wiro binding
• Published 2000 (reprinted 2004, 2007 and 2010)
• Contributors include: Marnie Barrell, Bill Bennett, Jillian Bray, Barry Brinson, Joy Dine, Colin Gibson, Beverley Jones, Judy Mills, Shirley Murray, Ian Render, Cecily Sheehy

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Alleluia Aotearoa: Music Book

Alleluia Aotearoa is an inventive collection that helped shape a distinctively Aotearoa New Zealand voice for congregational song.

The hymns draw heavily on themes of community, welcome, peace-making, and daily discipleship, often weaving te reo Māori phrases, natural imagery, and an earthy sense of God’s presence in ordinary life.

Across the texts there is strong emphasis on justice, compassion, shared responsibility, and Christ walking alongside people in their struggles.

Ministers and worship leaders will value this book for its deeply local character, its accessible language, and its ability to root worship in the whenua, the neighbourhood, and the shared life of the Church in Aotearoa.

• 163 hymns and songs 
• Words, music and guitar chords
• 288pp A5 laminated cover, spiral/wiro binding
• Published 1993. (Reprinted 2018)
• Contributors include: Marnie Barrell, Jillian Bray, David Dell, Felicia Edgecombe, Colin Gibson, Guy Jansen, Jenny McLeod, Willow Macky, Douglas Mews, Shirley Murray, Christopher Norton, Ian Render, Cecily Sheehy, Bill Wallace, Radha Wardrop.

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Carol Our Christmas: Music Book

Carol Our Christmas is a distinctive collection of 52 New Zealand carols which reflect a “summer Christmas” in the Southern Hemisphere – recognising the light, sun and local rhythm of Aotearoa rather than the usual Northern-hemisphere snow imagery.

The inclusion of six Christmas poems by notable New Zealand writers (such as Joy Cowley and Eileen Duggan) and a foreword by Joy Cowley further root the collection in the local context.

The carols span the traditional nativity narrative, the wonder of incarnation, reflections on creation and community, and new-perspectives on Christmas – offering fresh imagery, humour and relevance.

For ministers and worship leaders this book offers a rich resource: it allows congregations to celebrate Christmas with carols that feel culturally and environmentally appropriate to New Zealand, supports guitar and congregational use (with chords included), and gives fresh textual material that can deepen the seasonal service beyond the familiar.

The collection is a strong asset for summer carol services for communities in the southern hemisphere, and anyone seeking to refresh the Christmas repertoire with meaningful, contextually sensitive music.

• 52 carols for a summer Christmas
• Words, music and guitar chords
• 126 pp A5 laminated cover, wiro binding
• Published 1996
• 6 Christmas poems by Peter Cape, Joy Cowley,
• Eileen Duggan and Shirley Murray.
• Foreword by Joy Cowley

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