Worship Planning

When someone invites you to plan and lead worship, it may feel like a daunting task. But if you follow these guidelines [RTF: 4 pp/86 KB], you’ll find that planning worship is a natural process—following a reassuringly familiar flow while seeking opportunities to do something fresh or particularly appropriate for the week and context.

Key Resources for Worship Planning

• Gathering: Resources for Worship Planners
  Gathering is for ministers, lay leaders, music directors, and worship committees. Its content is grassroots with tried and tested worship ideas coming from congregations all across Canada. Published three times a year for Lent/Easter/Pentecost; Summer/Autumn; and Advent/Christmas/Epiphany.
• Celebrate God’s Presence: A Book of Services for The United Church of Canada
  As its subtitle suggests, Celebrate God’s Presence is not a service book, but a resource for services—a rich and widely diverse offering of worship ideas, prayers, and service outlines that honour the breadth of United Church liturgy.

Additional resources can be found in Worship Planning.