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Automated checks can confirm a public video link and read uploader metadata, but only people can judge whether the language, translation, theology and cultural context are suitable for worship.
A useful review normally combines a fluent or native speaker with a trusted church or worship leader. Fluency helps with spelling, natural phrasing and subtitle meaning; church experience helps with theology, denominational context and whether the arrangement is practical for congregational singing.
A reviewer can choose whether to be credited by name, church or organisation. No credit will be published without permission. A review describes the exact video and date checked; it does not guarantee that a third-party upload will remain unchanged or available.
“Words indicated” means public uploader wording or maintained catalogue metadata signals lyrics, words or subtitles. It is not the same as a fluent-language review. Churches should continue to preview every exact upload before public use and confirm their own music, projection and streaming permissions.
Allow the full running time of the video plus a few minutes for notes, so a four-minute song usually takes about ten minutes from start to finish. Skipping through is where mistakes happen, because a spoken introduction, a mistimed subtitle or an unexpected closing screen only shows itself on a complete watch. Stop while your concentration is still fresh rather than working quickly through a long list in one sitting.
Look outside your own congregation for a fluent speaker willing to watch the worship video once. A neighbouring church, a diaspora fellowship, a hospital or university chaplaincy, a mission partner or a denominational language network can often help. Give them the exact link and a short list of what you need judged. If nobody is available, treat the entry as unreviewed and consider a version that carries English subtitles alongside the sung language.
Email hello@worshipwordvideo.org, the correction and content-report route for Worship Word Video, giving the catalogue page and the YouTube link. Describe the mismatch in your own words rather than pasting the text shown on screen. Say whether the problem is timing, spelling, a loose paraphrase or an entirely different song. Entries that turn out to be wrongly labelled can be relabelled, corrected or removed from public results.
Treat it as a snapshot rather than a standing guarantee. Uploaders can re-edit a video, replace the subtitle track, restrict it by country, switch it to private or delete it, and none of that produces any warning to a directory that merely links to it. Open and watch the exact link again shortly before any service that depends on it, and keep a second option ready.
That decision belongs to the church rather than to a directory, and a practical middle path is to preview the exact upload with a fluent speaker present even when no formal written review ever happens. Catalogue labels are drawn from public uploader wording and cautious inference, so they indicate what to expect rather than confirm it, and they are not a translation or theological endorsement. Permissions for singing, projecting or streaming remain the church’s own responsibility.
The format labels used in the Worship Word Video catalogue describe what is sung alongside what appears on screen. Native-language words means the on-screen text is in the same language as the singing, which suits a congregation reading and singing together. Translated subtitles means the sung language and the written text differ, so people follow the meaning rather than sing from it. Separate labels cover a native vocal with English subtitles and bilingual versions.