Ann, PM me your fax # and I'll fax the Finale sheet music to you.  Feel free to share any of my comments with folks here if you like.  I just PMd them to you because I thought some of my comments/suggestions were outside the main point of this thread.

Ann, Funny, that's what Genie said, but when I cut the syllable from the lyrics, the words stop one note before the dots on the staff do...
If you take out that one syllable, you need to change the two half notes to one whole note.
Noteworthy Composer simply won't put a note on the staff unless there is a syllable (or pause symbol) to go with it.  Finale will let you do that.  (I can't use Noteworthy, since I have Mac.)

So, instead of "Raise up your / voices, Let sweet / songs fill the / air,"  you would have  "Raise up your / voice, Let sweet / song(s) fill the / air."  "...voice, Let sweet" is three quarter notes.

An alternative is "Raise all your voices, May sweet song fill the air."

I also like, "Raise all your voices, let your joy fill the air."  (Same # of syllables as in the other 3 verses, but more melodic words and less a tongue-twister.)

----Oh, I see you already zoomed in on that one, Ann.   (I told you great minds think alike, didn't I?  *BG*)

Genie