Prayer and Worship
Prayer, hymn and worship resources to help you fulfil and explore your faith
Worship
Worship Notes
A regular resource for anyone who leads and plans worship. Each week’s notes contains prayers for Sunday services, thoughts on readings and hymn suggestions
URC Worship Book
Material for Holy Communions, Baptisms, confirmations, weddings, funerals, ordinations, inductions, and public worship
Daily Devotions
Our Daily Devotions offer you a Bible reading, reflection and prayer for every day of the year
Worship Notes Archive
An archive of the week-by-week URC worship materials that reflect years of prayerful work in leading God’s people in worship
Pulpit supply materials
As part of the URC’s support of local churches we are pleased to make Powerpoint Pulpit Supply Materials freely available to churches.
Worship with us digitally
A list of URC churches that are live streaming acts of worship or offering Bible studies, sermons and services as podcasts, audio files or video recordings
Small group studies
A collection of resources developed from the Daily Devotions to support small study groups
Prayer
URC Prayer Handbook
Order your copy of the 2025 URC Prayer Handbook, and find out the latest news about the 2026 Prayer Handbook.
Prayers for church seasons
Prayers to help you mark seasons of the Church
Pray Like Paul
Everyone is invited to pray with, and for, young people throughout Lent.
A simple pattern of daily prayer
This simple pattern of prayer is designed to be used by anyone, at any time and in any place
Black Lives Matter intercessory prayer
Please use this video intercession in your online service of worship.
Prayers for Ukraine
Please use these prayers for peace and for the peoples of Ukraine and Russia in your private devotions, prayer groups or sermons
Prayers In A Time of Conflict
The URC offers these prayers for public or private use for the continuing hostilities in Israel and Palestine.
Prayer Prompts for Children
Prayer Prompts for Children are free resources using symbols, words and pictures to help children pray.
Praise
Sunflowers & Thistles
A collection of praise and protests songs written by the Revd John Campbell that focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic
Worship Resources Competition Winners
Listen to, or download the music and words to, the winning entries of the URC 50th anniversary Worship Resources Competition
Christmas songs for testing times
The Revd John Campbell wrote three new songs to help straddle the gap between the Holy Land of Christmas and the current conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories
50 Hymns For 50 Years
50 Hymns for 50 Years is a wonderfully readable collection of reflections looking at 50 hymns that tell something of what’s happened to the URC since 1972.
