This sheet provides objectives for various workshops, each with activities for children to learn and understand Biblical stories.
This sheet provides objectives for various workshops, each with activities for children to learn and understand Biblical stories.
Use this resource to plan a worship service for your congregation. The Office of Theology and Worship has put together resources for a mini-course on worship that can be used for Commissioned Ruling Elder education, study for worship ordination exams, elder education, and/or a Christian education course on worship. See the full collection of these resources.
There is more than one “right” way to go about planning a solemn assembly or spiritual renewal service. In some ways the preparation for the service will be just like the preparations made for any other worship service in the congregation’s life together.
You might want to design a timeline such as the one we’ve created. Adapt this schedule according to the needs and interest of your congregation or presbytery.
Worship is central to the Reformed tradition. Engage your congregation in the issues related to HIV and AIDS through the prayer of confession/assurance of pardon, the lighting of the Advent candle, the children’s moment, the sermon, a minute for mission (see the entry for December 1, World AIDS Day, in the 2010 Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study), the prayers of the people and a work of art or a bulletin insert. Here are some descriptions and examples.
A poem for Disability Access/Inclusion Sunday 2010
Veterans:
For those who have been injured
For those who are healing from physical or psychological wounds
For those who have witnessed devastation and death
For those who have lost friends...
Use this hymn written by a seminary student in your celebration of Theological Education Emphasis Sunday.
Prayer by Rosa Miranda lifting up unjust immigration practices, which lead to separated families and communities in crisis.