Encouraging saints around the world since 1991 !!
This song has traveled the world for 20 years !!!
Two choirs from Bishop Lavis, Cape
Town ( South
Africa) sent me
a recording of them singing 7 New Hope Music songs! Thank you !!!
Click below to listen to
their recording of this song (MP3 format)
"He Shall Be Called" Junior
Choir
NEW!!!
Translated
into the Urdu language
by Samson Ayaz ,
from Pakistan.
Urdu translation
A choir in Helsinki,
Finland
is singing this in Finnish !!
Download the Russian sheet music for this song!
View a Romanian version on youtube.com
A missionary in Guatemala translated it
into Spanish and German
!
Hear Jay Droz sing it in Spanish
Translated
into Português (Brasil) by
Daniel Borges,
from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Português (Brasil) translation
Translated into Afrikaans by
Liz Van Heerden, from South Africa
Afrikaans
translation
Translated
into the Polish language
by Jay Droz, from Florida
Polish
Translation
Hear Jay Droz sing it in Polish
Several New
Hope Music carols & hymns,
including this one, can be found on
"A Christmas Carol Treasury: The Hymns And Carols Of Christmas."
I am so happy to tell you that
our church choir, consisting of 70 members, is singing your composition
“He
Shall Be Called”. What a lovely song! Let Immanuel give you more
blessings this Christmas time.
I am sure that this tiny Baby born in your
heart can recharge your talent for composing more and
more songs for His
praises. (Mathew, from New Delhi,
India)
I'm
a graduate of Yerevan State Conservatory from Composition and Symphonic -
Operatic Conducting departments and the choir director of N.E.S.T. (Near
East School of Theology)
in Beirut. For the Christmas concert, our group ( piano and a
choir of 15) will have the
privilege
to perform your beautiful song "He Shall Be Called".... (the
national premier !! )
As a professional conductor, I am doing my best to ... have a
performance
of grand musicality.
Thank you... for being gracious to let
the world enjoy this song of worship and glory.
(Garo, from Lebanon)
This carol has been sung by many choirs,
worship teams and soloists
around the world since 1991,
with music requests coming from:
Guatemala, New Zealand (Hamilton, Dunedin and
Timaru), Massachusetts,
Canada (Ontario, Quebec, Calgary, Saskatchewan
and rural Alberta),
India,
Washington, Bahrain, Georgia, Delaware, Michigan, Virginia, Lebanon,
Australia (Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania), North Carolina,
Indonesia, Nevada, England, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama,
South Africa, New Mexico, Colorado, Missouri,
West Virginia, Finland,
California, South Dakota, Florida, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio...
Praise God!!!!
I have just been
listening to HE SHALL BE CALLED...
it is so anointed! I am a British missionary in Guatemala
and would love to teach the locals this both in English and
Spanish. May I have your permission to translate
this into Spanish?
Wow I could just imagine our children's choir
singing this!
(Jeff - Final Harvest Ministries in Guatemala)
Wow! I really
love this song... you have a fantastic beat and
sense of joy that is wonderful for the Christmas season!
This song would be wonderful for our candle lighting each week.
You have really made my day...
(Judi)
I just fell in love with the
music and words, which are from the Bible and
lift Jesus up. ...
We sang "He Shall Be Called" in our
Christmas meeting last Sunday and it was great!
Our pastor spoke in our
morning meeting about Immanuel, God with us, how
God wants to communicate with
us from face to face. And in the Christmas meeting
he spoke about the Blood and
the cross, how Jesus was born to die for us. So your song
and the words
were in the same anointing as the Christmas messages...
(Lea, from Finland)
Here's a picture of our
children singing your song
("He Shall Be
Called")
(Janet, from New Boston, Ohio)
I am the choir director of
Millennium Methodist Church,
Secunderabad, India.
I used your song 'He Shall Be Called'
two years back in our
Christmas program
and I am planning to use some for this upcoming
Palm Sunday/Good Friday/Easter Season.
(Sunil, from
India)
READ
WHAT MANY
OTHERS HAVE WRITTEN
C F G C
He shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God
Am Dm7 G C
He shall be called Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
F G C Dm G C C7
His name is Jesus, for He will save His people from sin
F G C Am Dm G C
His name Immanuel, God with manC F G C
Jesus is called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God
Am Dm7 G C
Jesus is called Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
F G C Dm G C C7
His name is Jesus, for He saves His people from sin
F G C Am Dm7 G E
His name Immanuel, God with man
F G C Am Dm7 G C A7
His name Immanuel, God with manD G A
We praise Your name Wonderful Counselor,
D
Almighty God
Bm Em7 A D
We praise Your name Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
G A D Em A D D7
We love You Jesus, for You save Your people from sin
G A D Bm Em7 A F#
We love You Immanuel, God with man
G A D Bm Em7 A D
We love You Immanuel, God with man
By Ralph Merrifield,
Copyright 1991
New Hope Music, P.O. Box 1612, Westboro MA 01581 USA
Recorded on: "In The Knowledge Of Him"
I
am ... a Music Teacher in St. Francis
Anglo Indian Girls High School in Coimbatore.
I decided to teach "He
Shall Be Called" and
"You Gave Us
Hope"
to our school children for Christmas Carol 2007.
As we began our practices, our children were moved by
the Spirit of the Lord and they told me that they felt
peace, joy and happiness.
It is truly uplifting music and an inspiration from
the Holy Ghost to you. God wants you to be an
instrument in His hands to do this marvelous work to
build His kingdom here on this earth.
(Charles, from India)
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Sound Files
New
SATB Choir
Accompaniment Track (MIDI)
New
created by Fred
Scorza (the background MIDI on this page)
New
SATB Choir
Accompaniment Track (MP3)
New
created by Fred
Scorza (the background MIDI on this page)
MIDI (worship version)
created by Elton Smith
MIDI (country
style)
created by Elton Smith
NEW !! KARAOKE
VERSION !!! NEW !!
of Elton's MIDI
Right click title below and
"Save Target As"
to download Adrian V. Miller's
MIDI performance of
He Shall Be Called (Key
of C)
He Shall Be Called (Key
of B flat)
He Shall Be Called (Key
of A)
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click title below
to hear Ralph
sing this song (MP3 format).
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to download to your computer
He
Shall Be Called
Hear Jay Droz sing
this song
(English Version)
Sheet Music !
New
SATB Choir
Arrangement (PDF) New
created by Fred Scorza
(Acrobat Reader 5.0 version)
New
Worship Team Lead
Sheet (PDF) New
created by Fred Scorza
(Acrobat Reader 5.0 version)
SATB Choir Arrangement
(PDF)
created by Fred Scorza
(Acrobat Reader 3.02 version)
Worship Team Lead
Sheet (PDF)
created by Fred Scorza
(Acrobat Reader 3.02 version)
Right click title below and
"Save Target As"
to download Adrian V. Miller's
PDF Sheet Music of
He Shall Be Called (Key
of C)
He Shall Be Called (Key
of B flat)
He Shall Be Called (Key
of A)
(Acrobat Reader 5.0 version)
You can download a PDF
file (using Acrobat Reader, versions 3.02
and 5.0)
of the choral SATB arrangement, worship team lead sheet,
MIDIs and a MP3 file by using the links above
(downloading would save us time and postage!)
If you cannot download and
read the PDF files,
we can send you a free printed copy.
Just e-mail ralph@newhopemusic.com
with your regular mailing address (the one the post office uses)
and include the type of arrangement(s) you'd like.
After
listening to SATB arrangement from your site, I selected
two of your beautiful Carols "He
Shall Be Called" &
"The Baby Of
Bethlehem"
and presented by
my Choir during the Christmas programmes in
December 2003 and 2004. These were the best enjoyed among the
seventeen carols we presented.
The
tune and arrangement were indeed
exceptional and the effort is really commendable. May God
bless you
and let you create more such carols to enable attracting many souls to His
Kingdom.
(K.M.Thomas, Choir Director, CNI Immanuel Church, Mayur Vihar, New Delhi, India)
YouTube - CSI Hudson valley congregation NY carol 2007
HISTORY:
I originally wrote
"He Shall Be Called" in December 1988
(based on the nativity accounts in Isaiah 9:6 and Matthew 1:21-23)
while sitting at my kitchen table in our small 5 room house in Milford MA.
In 1990 (in the back room of Dave Wells' mobile home ! ),
we included it on our first recording "In The Knowledge Of Him".
I sang and played guitar, while my friend, Bob Nute,
accompanied with electronic percussion.
You can hear this recording by clicking on the MP3 link above.
Our home church has
been using this
song as a public worship chorus for over a fifteen years.
CONTRIBUTORS:
A special thanks to Elton
Smith (Texas)
for making two MIDI versions of "He Shall Be Called"
(our first arrangements!) available on several of his marvelous web sites.
Several web sites use this arrangement as background, including one in Alaska!
He's
also done an arrangement of "Splendor and Majesty",
"Mighty One" (in English and Spanish), "How Awesome Is This
Place"
and created our New Hope Music banner !!
Songs
Of Praise Web Site
In 1999, Leona
Plymate (Oklahoma)
included the song in a musical she wrote,
"A
Christmas Gift Sent Special Delivery"
and I received several e-mails
from saints across the nation
who have used it in their Christmas programs.
During the summer of 2000, Fred
Scorza (Pennsylvania)
completed his lead sheet of the song (vocal, chords and piano)
and his SATB choir arrangement.
Fred has also arranged several other NHM songs.
Lassen
Technologies
now includes this song on their web site
along with several others of ours.
See Other Christmas Songs & Hymns
Only Immanuel knows His
plan for
"He Shall Be Called".
He will open the doors He wants opened,
and close the doors He wants closed.
Halleluiah !!
Thank you for the part you
have
in sharing this song with others...
Ralph Merrifield
Last updated 12/16/09
visits since 7/20/04
Thank
you for the "He Shall Be Called" music.
Our choir at St Luke United Methodist Church sang it
the first Sunday in Advent for our anthem.
The congregation liked it so well, I decided for us to sing it (1st verse)
as a Call to Worship, which we are doing every Sunday
for the Advent season. We have a young man who plays the guitar
along with the piano. The congregation loves to sing it!
Attached is a picture of our choir singing the song on November 27, 2005.
(Patty, Choir
Director from South
Carolina)