On Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday, February 27, 2011, we celebrate the beautiful women in the household of God who regularly do beautiful things in love and faithfulness to Jesus Christ. There are women in scripture and women in our congregations who regularly do beautiful things and are remarkable saints in the faith. Use this bulletin cover for your celebration.
On Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday, March 4, 2012, we honor women who contribute their gifts to the church and community, lift up issues of women’s rights, and focus on the role of women in our communities and world. Your congregation or women’s groups can use this resource on March 4 or on any date that you choose to celebrate courageous women who struggle, persevere and survive.
On Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday, March 4, 2012, we honor women who contribute their gifts to the church and community. In 2012, the Presbyterian Planning Calendar designates March 4, 2012 as Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday. International Women’s Day is March 8 and many congregations choose the Sunday closest to that date for their annual celebration. However, this resource may be used whenever your congregation or women’s group chooses to celebrate women.
The Celebrate the Gifts of Women resource, written by Frances Taylor Gench, includes a worship service with a call to worship, prayer of confession, suggested …
In 2013, Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday honors women through whom God is transforming the church in an emerging era. Though the official Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday is March 3, 2013, your congregation or women’s groups may use this resource on any day that you choose. The resource also includes a worship service with a call to worship, prayer of confession, suggested hymns, suggested scripture readings and a litany of remembrance and renewal, preaching and program suggestions, and recommended resources for further study.
On Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday, we are encouraged to live life with an “attitude of gratitude.” Though Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday is March 5, 2017, your congregation or women’s groups may use this resource on any day that you choose. Living life with an “attitude of gratitude” is having a readiness to show appreciation, returning kindnesses, saying thank you, and giving thanks with a grateful heart. Order the resource through Presbyterian Distribution Service, item 27501-17-001, or download from www.pcusa.org/women. Also, available in the November/December issue of Horizons magazine. A resource that includes a worship service with …
Worship resources for addiction awareness services
Use these worship resources for an addiction awareness service with your congregation.
A worship aid for Disability Access/Inclusion Sunday 2010.
Believe it or not, it is possible to talk about AIDS with children, even in a worship service. Use these guidelines for planning the discussion in your congregation.
This is a choral reading of the Pentecost story from Acts 2:1-21 for thee voices. The Taizé song "Holy Spirit, Come to Us" (Sing the Faith 2118) may be used with the reading as an optional refrain and/or Prayer for Illumination.
See related paged: Day of Pentecost, Presbyterian Worship
This Children's Sermon by Jennifer Whitford introduces the Christmas Joy Offering as a way to share with others in response to the gifts we've been given.