Mission Praise

Mission Praise (Mission England Praise, 1983; Mission Praise 2, 1987; Mission Praise Supplement, 1989; Mission Praise Combined, 1990; New Mission Praise, 1996; Complete Mission Praise, 1999; new edition, 2005; online edition, 2008; 25th anniversary edition, 2009). In terms of sales, Mission Praise was a phenomenally successful publication in the last fifteen years of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st. Across all its editions, including Junior Praise and Carol Praise, it has to date sold over two-and-a-half million copies.  Advertised by its most recent publisher as ‘the most widely used hymn and song resource in the UK’, it came into existence in its original form in...