Do, re, mi, fa…SamePage
By Heidi Heater, a senior from Jackson, Ky.
WILMORE, KY—SamePage music system is revolutionizing church services around the nation by providing a paperless music management and display option for worship teams.
As a worship team leader, Daniel Maggart ’00, struggled with a pile of music each week to ensure that team members had the songs in the correct key. With the technology advancements in the church, Maggart felt that there was also a chasm in communication that hindered spontaneity in worship services.
He wanted to create a system that combined the worship team, the technical team and the pastor. He wasn’t alone in his desire for change. In the fall of 2005, Maggart met with Mark, Michael and Tim Craig to begin writing the SamePage program.
“We all had great jobs, making very good money,” said Maggart, vice president of sales and marketing and partner of Corevalus Systems. “People told us that to make this kind of leap would be one of the worst moves of a lifetime. However, we got the vision for SamePage very quickly, because there was nothing else out there that did this.” 
SamePage is the world’s only fully integrated digital music management and display system designed specifically for churches. The program holds all of the music in the church database, placing it at the leader’s fingertips. This allows the leader to bring up any song at a moment’s notice.
“It doesn’t matter what kind of church, traditional or non-traditional, you’re in,” Maggart said. “You still deal with the same issues of paper—making sure the song is in the right key and communicating to other members of the worship team.”
Maggart believed spontaneity was inhibited because many churches have the words to the songs on video screens, as opposed to using hymnals. Changing songs during the worship service was unthinkable because it was nearly impossible to communicate with the crew in the back.
Maggart put his “planned spontaneity” into practice one Sunday morning. As a worship leader at Georgetown Community Church, Maggart didn’t pre-plan any songs for the service.
“I asked the congregation what songs they wanted to sing this morning,” he said. “Hands flew up all over the place, and in five minutes, we had loaded 12 songs. That’s the impact. SamePage bridges those gaps of communication and provides planned spontaneity.”
Corevalus plans to launch version four of SamePage this summer.
Release: June 10, 2008
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