Resources to help you and your church engage with worship and spirituality in meaningful and relevant ways in your context. Here you will find prepared material ready-to-use in gathered worship and personal devotion. These sources are many, representing the variety of worship experiences in the United Reformed Church and our ecumenical partners.
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Online worship services - a list of churches streaming acts of worship which you can join Prayers during the pandemic - weekly prayers from the United Reformed Church to help bring you comfort and spiritual support during the Coronavirus pandemic Walking the Way: Continuing to support each other (PDF) - advice and resources to help you and your community cope during the Covid-19 pandemic Walking the Way News - includes ideas for worship and inspiring activities shared with us by local congregations Church information guides - a series of free guides with advice for churches and church organisations to help them stay in contact with and support their local community during and after lockdown
URC Worship Book – the entire book is available online as PDF downloads 12 complete worship services from Open Table Children’s and youth work - complete online recorded services and children’s messages on the URC YouTube Channel – subscribe to it for notifications of new resources Scottish Bible Society – brilliantly illustrated Bible Stories on PowerPoints, free to download and use for on-line worship
URC Easter resources - free printable booklets, service and activity posters and service sheet cover Walking towards Easter together - a Lent resource for churches to give to students, seniors, households and families to reduce isolation and offer hope in these challenging times Lent resources (PDF) - URC worship resources for Shrove Tuesday and the Sundays of Lent Pentecost service Youtube video - songs and activities written by URC Youth for use in lockdown 2020, although most of the elements are timeless Prayer Stations for Pentecost (PDF) - including Martin Luther King’s speech, ‘I have a dream’ and related activities 'The Fire of Love' - two Pentecost celebrations produced by the Joint Liturgical Group in Great Britain are available for free download A complete Pentecost service from Open Table Eco-Church worship resources (PDF) to help your congregation focus on the environment in prayer and worship A Creationtide series of URC Daily Devotions is available for download. You'll find them listed in the left margin of the website URC Advent resources - resources for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany 'Light in the darkness' - a complete Advent service from Open TableHoly Week and Easter
Lent
Pentecost/Whitsunday
Pentecost Season/Ordinary Time
Advent
Baptism (PDF) - the complete service from the URC Worship Book 'Recognising and celebrating the birth of your baby' - guidance describing baptism, dedication and blessing options for worship services from the URC Communion (PDF) - the complete communion services from the URC Worship Book A complete ready-to-use communion service - from the Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2016 Joint Liturgical Group of Great Britain has produced an Ecumenical Service of Baptism and Confirmation (PDF) Virtual funerals: liturgies and words for our digital world - also available as a downloadable PDFBaptism
Communion
Baptism and Communion
Funerals and memorial services
Harvest Sunday - a free printable poster, leaflet and service sheet cover from the URC 'Thank you to our farmers!' - a worship resource for harvest from the Arthur Rank Centre for Rural Christians 'Celebrating Abundance’ - a complete worship service for Harvest Sunday from Open Table 'Remembrance for whole-of-life disciple’ (PDF) - Walking the Way resources for remembering and peace-making: prayers, poems, photos, reflections and activities Harvest
Mothering Sunday
Remembrance Sunday
Walking the Way Sunday
Council for World Mission Prayer Book - weekly prayers for our partners around the world Commitment for Life worship resources from the URC Christian Aid worship resources - prayers responding to emergencies and disasters, worship resources for Climate Justice, resources for weekly worship including sermon pointers and prayers Global link worship resources - these are often available from your Synod and relate to international partners. For example, Wessex Synod shares a partnership with the Lusaka Presbytery of the United Church of Zambia and developed a collection worship resources
Children and youth work resources – links to numerous creative and helpful URC resources for worship and faith development Roots on the web - inspiring ideas and resources to use with toddlers to teens Diddy Disciples - worship and storytelling podcasts for young children from Southwark Diocese Godly Play stories online Same Boat music - snappy music videos and worship resources
Walking the Way News - articles that explore spirituality in innovative and fresh ways URC Daily Devotions - sign up for a daily devotion to arrive in your inbox or download A5 booklets of series of complete devotions Exploring prayer - explore prayer in innovative and fresh ways with the URC Lectio Divina or ‘holy reading’ is a meditative and worshipful way of reading a passage of scripture Spiritual nourishment - explore spirituality in innovative and fresh ways with the URCPrayer
Bible study
Spirituality
