Congregational Resources

Mission and Service Articles

Articles and letters about M&S—including the online version of the Mission and Service Today column—featured monthly in The Observer, with ideas and tips on stewardship and giving.

Annual Plan for Conferences, Presbyteries, and Pastoral Charges

This annual plan gives monthly suggestions for keeping up your support of M&S all year long.

Networks and Blogs

You can learn more about—and get involved with!—the Mission and Service Fund by visiting any of these sites:

• Mission and Service Fund Blog (MaST)
• Mission and Service Fund Facebook Group
• Mission and Service Fund WonderCafe Group

Worship Planning

Worship resources for M&S goal-setting, M&S Sundays, or times when an M&S-themed prayer, hymn, or liturgy is needed. Includes White Gift services, WDR services, "Colour Your World," and more.

Minutes for Mission

Rated as the most popular M&S resource, Minutes for Mission are designed for reading during Sunday worship. The attractive booklet can be ordered from UCRD, but for convenience, the text of the Minutes is also available online, along with additional photos to support some of the stories.

A United Fund for a United Vision

Mission and Service United Fund for a United Vision Youth Guide [PDF: 2 pp/367 KB]

A Mission and Service guide for youth coordinators, youth leaders, Sunday school teachers, camp leaders, and confirmation classes.

Advent/Christmas Resources

A New Heaven and a New Earth: M&S Advent Calendar 2008 [PDF: 2 pp/180 KB]

This is an Advent calendar suitable for individuals and families. Before Advent, prepare five candles to light. Decorate an M&S "blessing box" and keep this at the dinner table to receive gifts. On Christmas Eve, bring your M&S gifts to worship.

Mission and Service Candle-Lighting Services for Worship and Home [PDF: 9 pp/107 KB] NEW

Two sets of Advent candle-lighting services: one to use in worship in your congregation and the other for church families to use at home after creating an Advent wreath.

The Real Thing This Christmas [PDF: 4 pp/123 KB]

If it sometimes feels that hope, peace, joy, and love are being replaced by stress, greed, waste, and hurry, this is the resource for you. Includes weekly suggestions for adults or families and an Advent colouring calendar for children. Produced for Advent 2007.

Is This the Look of Christmas? [PDF: 8 pp/233 KB]

Family ideas for each day of the Advent season that will help people analyze materialism while focusing on the true meaning of Christmas. Produced for Advent 2006.

For an archive of ideas, stories, and articles to help tell the Mission and Service Fund story, please visit the M&S Ideas page. These include ideas from Enthusiast newsletters and suggestions from M&S Enthusiasts and congregations.

More resources are also available in the M&S for Children section of this website.