Are you struggling to find music for a personalised cremation service? The Amsterdam funeral celebrant performs gospel funeral songs to help you create a personal and uplifting experience. Celebrate the remarkable life of your loved one.

Worship songs and congregational hymns are perfect for a hospice and palliative care setting. It’s peaceful, calming and reflective. However, gospel funeral songs can also comfort and celebrate a loved one’s life. Easing pain and fear to healing.

Whatever music you want, the Amsterdam funeral celebrant supports the living, comfort mourners’ feelings, and pay tribute to a great person. So, here are gospel funeral songs and holy blues. I wish you peace in this difficult time.

Amsterdam Funeral Celebrant for Cremations & Memorials

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Gospel Funeral songs. “In loving memory of my beautiful friend – June”. I mourn the loss of her; she was laid to rest during an intimate and sombre funeral ceremony.

Gospel Funeral Songs – recommended by the Amsterdam Funeral Celebrant

Prelude

    • Abide With Me – LC Gospel Choir
    • Amazing Grace – Soweto Gospel Choir
  • Ave Maria – Beyonce

Words of Welcome/Hymn

  • I Wanna Be Ready – Amos Machanic
  • Soon and very soon – Andrea Crouch

Introduction / Sermon

  • Bridge Over Troubled Water – Aretha Franklin
  • Don’t Cry – Kirk Franklin

Eulogy / Prayers

  • Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham – traditional African American spiritual
  • Awesome God – JJ Hairston

Lords Prayer / Scripture Readings

  • A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
  • Down By The Riverside – Etta James
  • He’s Got The Whole World In His Hand – Mahalia Jackson

Scripture Readings

  • His Eye Is On The Sparrow – Sister Act
  • How I Got Over – London Gospel Community Choir

Gospel Funeral Songs before Commital

  • I Believe I Can Fly – R. Kelly
  • I Speak Life – Donald Lawrence
  • Jericho – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
  • Total Praise – Richard Smallwood
  • Better Days – Le’ Andria Johnson

Reflective gospel funeral songs uplift everyone’s spirit. It allows us to remember the departed, console the living and say farewell.

Formal Reading of Obituary

  • Jerusalem – Hubert Parry
  • Lean On Me – Bill Withers
  • More Than I Can Bear – Kirk Franklin
  • Revelation – Sunday Service Choir / Kanye West
  • We Shall Overcome – Mahalia Jackson

Eulogy/Life Tribute

  • Jesus Is On The Mainline – Willie Neal Johnson & The Gospel Keynotes
  • Old Landmark – James Brown
  • One Day I’ll Fly Away – Randy Crawford
  • Something About The Name Jesus – Kirk Franklin
  • Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho – The Golden Gate Quartet

Brief Informal Tributes

  • People Get Ready – Five Blind Boys Of Alabama
  • Something Inside So Strong – Labri Saffri
  • Steal Away – Michelle Williams & Shirley Caesar

Brief Informal Tributes

  • God Is – Sunday Service Choir / Kanye West
  • Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Mahalia Jackson
  • You Waited – Travis Greene

Thank you and Acknowledgements

  • Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Fisk Jubilee Singers
  • Till We Meet Again – Kirk Franklin
  • The Lord Is My Shepherd – Whitney Houston

Viewing of Deceased

  • To My Fathers House – Edwin Hawkins Singers
  • You’ll Never Walk Alone – ABC Gospel Choir version
  • Waymaker – Sinach

 Gospel Funeral Songs/Benediction

  • You’ve Got To Move – Mississippi Fred McDowell
  • Don’t Forget To Remember – Donald Lawrence ft/Lalah Hathaway

 Music for Reflection & Prayer

  • Wade in The Water – Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
  • When The Saints Go Marching In – Louis Armstrong

 Exit Music (Postlude)

  • In the Sweet by and by – Joseph P Webster
  • Put Your Hand in the Hand – Elvis Presley
  • Caught Up – Shirley Caesar & Kirk Franklin
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Sadness, disbelief and sorrow! Bereavement songs – create a memorable cremation with uplifting music.

Amsterdam Funeral Celebrant & Pianist

You’ll need a pianist if you want family and friends to sing hymns during the service. This pianist will accompany the Amsterdam Funeral Celebrant to help create an uplifting atmosphere. Leroy B is fully trained. He will attend rehearsals with the Amsterdam Funeral Celebrant before the funeral service. If your venue does not have a piano or keyboard, we shall provide one for an additional cost.

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