Somewhere this week, a worship leader has opened a plan in Services, created a setlist, and sent the band a serving request.

It's a small, ordinary moment. But churches have repeated it Sunday after Sunday for 20 years, and a few songs kept showing up in those service plans—each one more than 1 million times.

Honoring the songwriters

As part of our 20th anniversary, we're honoring 24 songwriters behind those songs. Each songwriter will receive a physical award for every honored song they wrote.

Framed certificate with ornate gold “1M” design and text honoring the worship song “Great Are You Lord” for 1,000,000 scheduled services.

Looking back at 20 years of Sunday plans

Services is where worship teams build setlists, schedule volunteers, and coordinate everything music-related that happens on a Sunday. Since 2006, churches have used it to plan more than 44 million worship service times.

That adds up to a pretty good record of what churches sing! When we looked back across two decades of scheduling data, 11 songs each crossed 1 million scheduled service times.

We didn't pick these songs—you did, one Sunday at a time.

Meet the 11 songs and their writers

Here are the honored songs (listed alphabetically):

  • “10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)” — Jonas Myrin and Matt Redman

  • “Build My Life” — Pat Barrett, Karl Martin, Kirby Kaple, Matt Redman, and Brett Younker

  • “Cornerstone” — Eric Liljero, Reuben Morgan, and Jonas Myrin

  • “Glorious Day” — Sean Curran, Jason Ingram, Jonathan Smith, and Kristian Stanfill

  • “Goodness of God” — Ed Cash, Ben Fielding, Jason Ingram, Brian Johnson, and Jenn Johnson

  • “Great Are You Lord” — Jason Ingram, Leslie Jordan, and David Leonard

  • “Holy Spirit” — Bryan Torwalt and Katie Torwalt

  • “Living Hope” — Brian Johnson and Phil Wickham

  • “This Is Amazing Grace” — Josh Farro, Jeremy Riddle, and Phil Wickham

  • “What a Beautiful Name” — Ben Fielding and Brooke Ligertwood

  • “Who You Say I Am” — Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan

Celebrating what comes next

We plan to give these awards every year. As more songs cross the 1 million mark, the list will only grow.

To every songwriter on this list: Thank you for giving churches words to sing together. And to every worship leader, musician, and volunteer who added these songs to a plan and showed up to sing them, thank you, too. 

Here's to the next 20 years of Sundays, and all the songs you’ll sing.