Thursday, 20 of June of 2013
Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Wild Goose Publications has published a list of Lent and Easter resources, both paper and digital. Click here Lent and Easter resources from Wild Goose .
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Opening and Closing Responses for Sundays in Lent (Digital download) Worship resources Ruth Burgess Digital download: Responses for cycles A, B and C for five Sundays of Lent, taken from the book Eggs and Ashes by Ruth Burgess and Chris Polhill. 15 pages |
Online worship resources for Epiphany Sunday, Baptism of Jesus, General Epiphany resources, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity resources & Transfiguration Sunday resources 
Pastor Steve Johnston of Trinity, London writes, “I’m doing a celebration of ordination for Rev. James Garey (40 years), Rev. Robert Hutchison (50), and Rev. Tom Ristine (59 years) … and me 6 years make 155 years of ordination! I found this site helpful.”
Check out the the worship articles and ideas of Rev Thomas L. Weitzel, ELCA, here Rev. Thomas L. Weitzel resources.
Bare treasure, this crushing frost.
Burrow within, death.
Branches reach for the sun even in November.
Rev. Dr. Matthew Anderson designs a prayer service for the Keffer Chapel community using improvised music, scripture, and sense poems. Have you ever written poetry as a prayer exercise? See the attached service.
KAIROS’ new Advent 2012 resource, inspired by Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter, is based on Las Posadas, a Central American and Mexican tradition in which actors playing Mary and Joseph walk through town searching for shelter, accompanied by local church members singing and carrying bright lanterns. Turned away again and again, they finally find householders who welcome them in.
Today, that search for shelter is a reality for many in our world, whether the shelter people seek is fair wages, land rights, or clean water.
The resource includes: Scripts and simple instructions for movement that weave Las Posadas into worship and invite your faith community’s children and choir into the liturgy
Prayers, liturgical pieces, scripture commentary/homily notes, and suggested symbols for use in worship
A justice focus for each Sunday:
Sunday 1 – Climate justice;
Sunday 2 – Women of Courage;
Sunday 3 – Migrant justice;
Sunday 4 – Peace in Bethlehem
$10 – print copy (includes postage).
$5 – full colour PDF downloadable (all copyright for group use included).
Order Seeking Shelter online at: http://www.kairoscanada.org/shop/
or Email orders@kairoscanada.org with “Advent resource”in the subject line.
Updated worship resources from December 1st through January 1st
Compiled by Rev. Sara Faulhafer, Bethany Lutheran Church, Woodstock
Date: October 10, 2012
Categories: Liturgies, Music Resources, Prayers, Space, World Aids Day, Worship planning
Register Now!! There are still a few spots left!
Music that Makes Community, a project of All Saints Company (www.allsaintscompany.org) in San Francisco, is coming to Kitchener from August 20 – 22 this summer. This is jointly sponsored by St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Kitchener and the Anglican Diocese of Niagara. There is an early bird rate which expires on June 25 and the event needs 30 registrations by that date in order to happen. This event is PARTICULARLY suited to smaller congregations with limited musical resources. There are also group rates available. Maximum registration is 80 people. Attached are a flyer for the event xix_ontario_flyer and an article written by Dr. Peter Nikiforuk, Director of Music at St Peter’s which was published in Organ Canada Music that Makes Community comes to Southern Ontario. Please feel free to contact Peter Nikiforuk (pniki@stpeterskw.ca) with any questions or queries.
Date: August 11, 2012
Categories: Conferences, Music Resources, News, Worship planning
Sundays and Seasons, the companion for worship planning published by Augsburg Fortress, is now available. Easy to use and rich in content, Sundays and Seasons follows the church year and three-year lectionary. Lay worship leaders and planners, preachers and presiders, worship team leaders, musicians and visual artists, educators, sacristans and altar guilds, and pastoral liturgists will find this resource will ease their work. Dated for Advent through Christ the King Sunday, Year C.
For further information, see Sundays and Seasons, Year C
Compiled by Pastor Sara Faulhafer, on-line worship resources for the Time after Pentecost can be found here:
Our care of creation is an act of worship. And our worship is an act of caring for creation. The challenge is to be intentional in making the connections between our caring and our worship, and to find liturgical ways to express that relationship in a way that does not detract from the work of praising God. Worship can be a time to increase our awareness of the world around us, to increase our appreciation of the sacredness of creation, and to deepen our desire to treat it with dignity and respect. Jennifer Edinger, “Creation and Celebration Connections,” in Care of the Earth: An Environmental Resource Manual for Church Leaders, ed. Tina B. Krause, page 45. Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology, 1994.
There are increasingly more resources available on the internet that celebrate our connectedness to all of creation. Perhaps one of these will provide a resource or prayer that can be adapted by your congregation on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, 2012. If you explore the websites further, you will find many ideas for worship throughout the year.
1. Season of Creation: This site provides many liturgies oriented to the celebration and needs of creation that could be suitable for a focus on Earth Day. http://seasonofcreation.com/
2. Let All Creation Praise: Earth Day liturgies http://www.letallcreationpraise.org/worship-services/earth-day
3. United Church of Canada: Bruce Sanguin, author of “If Darwin Prayed”, provides a liturgy based on the four pathways of the heart. http://www.united-church.ca/planning/seasons/earth
4. Earth Ministry: Service compiled and designed by Rev Gregory Peters http://earthministry.org/resources/worship-aids/sample-worship-services/earth-day-eucharist
5. Lutherans Restoring Creation (ELCA): Find theological background for sermons that speak about care of creation http://www.lutheransrestoringcreation.org/ http://www.bibleandecology.org/
6. Iona: Chris Pohill is the author of A Heart for Creation which offers prayers, worship resources and reflections http://www.ionabooks.com/2044-9781905010677-A-Heart-for-Creation.html
7. Lift up your Hearts (ELCIC): essays by Paul Bosch on the Greening of Worship, study documents by Harold Remus and Jana Kelly, and an essay Grain of Life and Grape of Love that includes hymnody lists on stewardship of creation by Fred Ludolph. http://www.worship.ca/
8. Web of Creation: Ecology Resources to Transform Faith Communities and Society: This website is maintained by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; go to http://www.webofcreation.org/
Finally, while Earth Day is one day you may choose to particularly focus on creation, consider that each Sunday there are ways to name our relationship with God and creation. See http://www.letallcreationpraise.org/four-steps-to-creation-care-in-all-worsh for further ideas.
Serve the Lord. Remember the poor. Care for creation!