URC Worship Resources

• On-line worship services
  • Active and pre-recorded services which you may join for worship. Click here.
  • During the Covid-19 emergency, the URC provides a weekly Sunday service in a radio-style podcast with hymns, readings, prayers and a sermon, provided featuring preachers from around the denomination.  The Sunday Service email arrive in your inbox around 9:45am on Sundays and contains an order of service and words for you to sing along with the hymns.    Click here to sign up and to view previous services.
  • Zoom and streaming guidebooks produced by the URC – helpful and clear resources to make your on-line worship experience the best it can be. Click here to access these excellent booklets, several of which provide technical guidance and suggestions for using the Zoom platform.
• Worship resources ready-to-use
  • Walking the Way Covid-19 booklet – Being the people of God in the face of Covid-19 — Click here
  • Ideas for worship and inspiring activities shared by local congregations – Click here  
    

• URC Worship Book – free access to the entire book online and as PDF downloads
• Object lessons to use in worship – On URC website (listed as Children & Youth Ministry)
• Resources for study and reflection in worship preparation
  • Text this week:  http://www.textweek.com/ – Lectionary-based
  • Sermons for Kids  https://sermons4kids.com/   – stories, messages & art activities
  • The Dollar Store  https://dskidsermons.com/     –  Lectionary-based children’s sermons
  • Working Preacher   https://www.workingpreacher.org/  – Lectionary-based interpretation and inspiration

• Music in worship

• Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
  • URC Advent Booklet
• Lent
  • URC Worship resources Shrove Tuesday through the Sundays of Lent, created for Feasts & Festivals 2017 – Click here.
• Holy Week & Easter
  • URC Easter resources from Greenbelt – click here
  • URC Easter promotion resources – free printable booklet and service sheet cover
• Pentecost/Whitsunday
  • A Pentecost service with songs, activities written by URC Youth – Click here  While written for use in lockdown 2020, most of the elements of the service are timeless.
  • Prayer Stations for Pentecost including Martin Luther King’s speech, ‘I have a dream’ and related activities – click here.
  • ‘The Fire of Love’, two Pentecosts celebrations produced by the Joint Liturgical Group in Great Britain are available for free download. Click here
• Pentecost Season/Ordinary Time
  • Season of Creation
    • Eco-Church worship resources to help your congregation focus on the environment in prayer and worship – Click here
    • A Creationtide series of URC Daily Devotions is available for download.  Click here. (You’ll find them listed in the left margin.)

• Sacraments
  • Baptism
    • Complete service in the URC Worship Book – click here
    • Celebrating the birth of your child in the United Reformed Church – a URC booklet describing baptism, dedication and blessing options for worship services – click here
  • Communion
    • Complete communion services in the URC Worship Book – click here
    • A complete ready-to-use communion service from Greenbelt – click here.
• Special Days throughout the year
  • • Harvest Sunday
      • URC Harvest promotion resources – free printable poster and service sheet cover
      • Worship resources for Harvest 2020: theme – ‘Thank you to our farmers!’, available from the Arthur Rank Centre for rural Christians
    • Remembrance Day
    • Special Weeks and Sundays are highlighted in a month-by-month listing created by the Joint Liturgical Group of Great Britain. The on-line resource provides a brief paragraph about a particular day, e.g. Sea Sunday, or an organisation, e.g. Seafarers Mission, which might be used in intercessions and a link for further information. This is a helpful tool as your congregation plans its year. Click here.
• Weddings & Blessing Ceremonies
• Funerals & Memorial services
  • Virtual funerals: liturgies and words for our digital world, a URC booklet available on-line – Click here

• Council for World Mission Prayer Book – weekly prayers for our partners around the world – click here
• Commitment for Life worship resources
  • Full service ready-to-use, including videos – click here
• Christian Aid worship resources – prayers responding to emergencies and disasters, worship resources for Climate Justice, resources for weekly worship including sermon pointers and prayers – click here
• Global link worship resources – these are often available from your Synod, relating to international partners.
  • For example, Wessex Synod shares a partnership with the Lusaka Presbytery of the United Church of Zambia. A collection of Zambian worship resources, ‘Zambia Praise, has been developed. – click here

• Joint Liturgical Group of Great Britain
  • An ecumenical service of baptism and confirmation – click here

• Roots on the web – Inspiring ideas and resources to use with toddlers to teens.
  

Personal Devotion   – resources for use at home or on the go

• • URC Daily Devotions – You may sign up for a daily devotion to arrive in your in-box or download A5 booklets of series of complete devotions.   Click here.
  • Prayer   The items shared through this page explore prayer in innovative and fresh ways.
    • Prayer Toolkit   URC resources and suggestions to help you in personal, group or church prayer.
  • Bible Study
    • Lecto Divina   Lectio Divina or ‘holy reading’ is a meditative and worshipful way of reading a passage of scripture.
  • Spiritual nourishment  The items shared through these pages explore Spirituality in innovative and fresh ways.