Worship Resources

Supplements to the resources printed in Leader (password required)

Worship resources for bulk subscribers:
Congregations ordering 5 or more copies of Leader may access documents of all the worship resources here.

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Free Resources

Spring 2010—Easter to Pentecost Resources

Update (2/10/2010) from Ten Thousand Villages regarding the bird ornaments: One of the suggested birds is not available and Villages is suggesting a bird house for that week. Please see the flyer here. Also, Villages and MCC have updated some of the resurrection stories with the revised stories available here.

• Acts 16 for Easter to Pentecost 2010
• Banner Layout Guide
• Banner Lettering CG
• Resurrection stories
• Visuals Banner Pt. 1
• Visuals Banner Pt. 2
• Birds
• Bird Holder BW

• Visual A, Visual B, Visual C

Winter 2009-2010—Lent Resources

• The Lenten clinging cross can be ordered online from a variety of sources, including Abbey Press.
• The Lenten cross worship center was inspired by a Chinese proverb:
       Heaven's net is cast wide
       and though its meshes are loose
       nothing is ever lost.
• Lenten Retreat resource

• Ash Wednesday Service.
• Reader's Theater.
• Spiritual Disciplines.
• Tenebrae or Maundy Thursday.

• Image 1, Image 2 , Image 3, Image 4, Image 5,
• These are the photos of the gray clothes for the children's time for the Lent worship resources: Image 1, Image 2

Note: Unfortunately, we did not receive the Good Friday service as promised in the Lent worship resources in the magazine. We apologize for this confusion. However, there are three Good Friday services in Words for Worship 2, edited by Diane Zaerr Brenneman (Herald Press, 2009), #314-316.

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Internet Explorer, right-click on the link; click on "Save Target As".
Mozilla Firefox, right-click on the link; click on "Save Link As"
Apple Safari, command-click on the link; click on "Download Linked File".

ZIP files: After saving a ZIP file to your computer, double click on the .zip folder to access its contents; then click and drag the contained files to the desired location on your computer.

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