Worship Notes over the next two months

Worship Notes for September and October

Dear Friends,

As you know we provide notes to help those lead worship prepare.  September’s material has been on the website for some time and October’s has been up for a week or so; we’re nearly ready with November’s.  You can find the material by going to urc.org.uk then clicking on Your Faith, then Prayer and Worship, then Worship Notes.  Here’s a direct link.

As many of you may know it has become a tradition in recent years to observe a season of Creation from 7th September until 4th October.  I am very grateful to the Revd David Coleman and his wonderful team at EcoCongregations Scotland for helping provide resources for these Sundays.  I’ve added other material to them and so, for each Sunday of September, and the first in October, there will be an additional set of Worship Notes for those who lead worship wishing to develop a Creationtide theme.  They should be read in conjunction with the regular Worship Notes so you can get a good range of material.  The first two Sunday’s worth of additional material are posted and I hope to get the other two loaded tomorrow.

The alternative material has the normal range of prayers, with a Communion prayer for each Sunday and a range of hymns with a creation theme.  In addition it has commentary on all the readings in the Lectionary – the alternate Old Testament passages as well as the regular ones.  All Age Activities are found in the regular notes as are hymns with a closer connection to the particular themes in the readings.  

I hope those who plan worship will find these notes helpful in the vital work of planning and preparation as we facilitate the feeding of God’s people.

With every good wish

Andy

The Rev’d Andy Braunston
Minister for Digital Worship