The age old classic that started it all back in 1993...Shout To The Lord is a song you surely know by heart and find yourself singing often.  If you don't already have the charts for this favorite, now is the time!  Read this thought-provoking and informational blog post from Ryan to find out how Shout To The Lord helped inspire the development of PraiseCharts! more

"Shout To The Lord", was probably the first song to really inspire the development of PraiseCharts.  I remember back in 1997 when I was developing my little church orchestra, using the Songs For Praise And Worship Series put out by Word Music.  I had the big conductor's binder and all!  That first collection stopped just short of, "Shout To The Lord" and the wave of new contemporary worship that was about to unload on the church in the 21st century. There is quite a story about how, "Shout To The Lord" came to be, written by an unsuspecting young lady named Darlene Zschech, who was quite new as a worship leader at the time.  That song seemed to not only catapult her ministry, but the entire ministry of Hillsong Church, much less the worldwide wave of powerful new worship songs that would follow.  I knew in 1997 that we needed a new vehicle to keep up with this rushing river of new worship music that was coming down the mountain, and so, the beginning of PraiseCharts converged with more