Mission Praise
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Mission Praise is a hymn book used in a wide variety of churches, especially in Britain, including the Church of England.
It originated as Mission England Praise, prepared for Billy Graham's 1984 Mission England campaign. In its "words only" form, it was a thin booklet of 282 pieces, with a wide mixture of hymns and worship songs. Some conservative Christians saw it as a way of bringing what they perceived as charismatic choruses into mainstream church worship.
Mission Praise has been through a number of editions. The second booklet (Mission Praise 2), came out in 1987, and contained songs 283 to 647. A new combined edition was released in 1993, and featured an extra two hundred songs, expanding the collection from 647 to 793 items. In 1999, "Complete Mission Praise" was issued, increasing the number of hymns to more than 1000. The 2005 edition, produced under the Collins imprint, has 100 extra songs from the last few years.
