Offertory hymns

To choose a hymn for "offertory" (officially, preparation of the gifts), or any time of offering during a church service, you could look at:

• Hymns based on the scripture readings of the day or for the service
• Hymns for the feast-day or season eg a song about resurrection at Easter, the Holy Spirit near Pentecost, or a hymn about a saint on their feast-day
• The Offertory chant from the Mass "propers" for the day - or hymns based on it.

But there may be times when you don't know any hymns which fit these criteria - or when you don't have the resources (singers, musicians or instruments) to sing them well.

So it can be helpful to know have a small number of general-purpose "offertory" hymns.

The list below has some hymns like this.  Some are about the offertory in a liturgical service, and others about ideas of giving and self-giving.  Free-use hymns that can be freely used with no concerns about copyright, and some which may still be copyright depending on the laws in your country are both included.

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Free-use offertory hymns

• Accept, Almighty Father
• Almighty Father, Lord Most High - Coles
• Come God's Children Let us Sing
• Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
• Let us Bring our Gifts to God
• O Holy Lord By All Adored
• O Worship the King
• On the Paten with the Host
• Take my Life and Let it Be
• Upon Thy Table Lord
• We Place upon Your Table Lord

Offertory hymns which may still be copyright

• Abba Father, Let Us Be Yours - Unknown (Bilbourgh?)
• Accept, O Father, In Thy Love - Westendorf
• All that I Am, All that I Do (Temple)
• All for You Lord, All for You
• Almighty Father Take this Bread

• Blest are You Lord - Nazareth
• Bread and Wine we bring to you Lord - unknown

• Come Now the Table's Spread - Haugen

• Earthly Gifts (Come and bless your people)

• Father, Take The Gifts We Bring
• Fill my House Unto the Fullest

• Gifts of Bread and Wine
• God Almighty (O brothers of Christ Jesus come)

• In Bread We Bring You Lord

• Let us Break Bread Together at the Altar

• Lord Accept the Gifts we Offer
• Lord Accept this Bread and Wine
• Lord, Make Us Ready - Parker

• O Give the Lord you Sons of the Lord (Bring to the Lord your offerings)
• O God, We Give Ourselves Today
• O King of Might and Splendor
• O Lord with Wondrous Mystery (O Lord in this Great Mystery)
• Of my Hands - Repp

• Payback Time / I Believe that Jesus Died for Me (Oh how can I repay the Lord)

• Reap me the Earth
• Receive (Dear / O) Father God of Might

• Take O Lord This Offering (These Offerings)
• Take my Hands and Make Them as Your Own
• Take my Life O Lord (and ever let it stay)
• Take our Bread ( We are Yours, Yours as we Stand)
• Take this Bread, Take this Wine - Winter
• Take this Moment - Bell
• The Earth Is His - J Smith 
• To You Alone (How privileged are we) - Leckebusch
• To You, O Father Above - unknown

• United In One Body  - Unknown

• We Celebrate this Festive Day - Jabusch
• We Come to You Lord Jesus Christ - for children
• We Offer you Bread and Wine, O Lord - Shelley 
• We Offer You O Lord Divine

• What Can We Offer You
• What Have we to Offer Him
• What can we Bring to Offer

See also ...

• Church service planning template
• Music selection worksheet

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A Gift We Give, Lord - TBA

Almighty God, We Offer Thee

Bless Now, O Heavenly Father - TBA

Father, In Whose Life We Live

Lift Up Your Hands And Offer - TBA

Look Upon Our Offerings

Lord, We Offer You These Gifts

Our Gifts Of Bread And Wine

Take Thou The Offering - tba