Worship at Home

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Worship at Home: Advent and Christmas 2020</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is packed with weekly worship services you can do on your own or with others and includes services for each week in Advent Christmas Eve the Sunday after Christmas and Epiphany. This book is for congregations and individuals who want to stay spiritually connected and growing even when they're not worshiping together in the same space. It provides everything you need to conduct meaningful spiritually fulfilling traditionally rooted worship services at home or in other intimate environments.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Each service includes essential worship elements from gathering to benediction with words and actions you can say and do yourself. Included are links for online musical selections plus traditional hymn suggestions from a variety of hymnals. You'll find helpful ideas for how to use this resource in a variety of settings and how to create worshipful spaces even in your own home.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Worship at Home</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> series is organized by the liturgical year with a new book for each season: Advent and Christmas Lent Easter and Eastertide Pentecost and the weeks after Pentecost. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ways the resource can be used by individuals and families include: </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Individuals can use the resource for personal devotion and worship at any time wherever they like. Go through the entire service or simply choose whatever portions are helpful. Read a prayer and meditate. Watch a video clip and reflect on it. Sing a song or hymn.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Families can use </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Worship at Home</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in the same ways any time and any place.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Suggestions are included for creating worship spaces at home and for involving children in the services.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Here are some ways the resource can be used by a congregation or group: </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Pastors or group leaders can use </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Worship at Home</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> as the worship plans for weekly church services. The pastor might prepare a sermon or homily but everything else is ready to go.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- People can use the resource for worship in any space-at a senior care center in a park on the lawn at the church and so forth. No bulletins or hymnals are needed. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- People gathered to worship via Zoom FaceTime Facebook or Instagram Live or livestream will all be reading aloud the same prayers from these books singing the same songs or singing along with a video. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Worship at Home</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> provides a participatory experience and a sense of community even when people are worshiping remotely.</span></p><p><br></p>