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

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

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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