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Opening to a Spring Celebration & Mandala
Intro Today is a special holiday celebration. Today we come together as church community to bless God for the season of Spring. For spring in creation, for spring times in our lives. For change and growth and new things. First, Let’s spend a moment or two in quietness. Consider the winter that is drawing to…
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Two Communion Meal Liturgies
Saints Communion We will begin the morning in sharing the communion meal. This is something followers of Jesus have done all throughout time and will do in the future until we all eat and drink together again with Jesus. It is a beautiful thing to think that we share this meal with all the saints,…
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A simple All-age Pentecost celebration
Here is how we celebrated Pentecost this year over brunch. A lot of our ideas were taken from this wonderful resource. You can delegate different parts of this service to different people. Pentecost Celebration Decorations – candles, orange or red flowers, food. Introduction Today is a great Christian holiday. Today is Pentecost Sunday and on Pentecost Sunday…
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A couple of communion meal liturgies
Communion – Jesus on the Road Share a time of recognizing Jesus walking beside you. Show the story of when Jesus appeared to his friends along the road to Emmaus. They were very upset and confused because he had died and so they didn’t recognize him at first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmTWQn95xQ Let us say together: The Lord…
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Greening of the Cross Liturgy
Set up: Movie clip, slideshow, cross structure or drawn on ground with chalk or rocks, greenery or flowers near by. Play clip of Easter Resurrection appearances.’ Until 4min 43 sec. Greening of the Cross Jesus, the first of the sleepers has risen. Power is His to wake us all from darkness. To bring life into every…
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A simple Tenebrae Service
Set up: Table with communion meal and Christ candle, music player, handouts of readings with images throughout. Introduction This morning we are celebrating a medieval liturgy called the Tenebrae. Tenebrae is the Latin word for darkness or shadows and this service is a representation of the darkness that covered the world at the death of Jesus.…
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A simple Ash service
Set-up: Bowl of Ash. The ‘wisdom of ash’ poem printed on the wall. (below) Native white flowers in basket. Communion. Psalm pages for each person. Optional Kids package – pretzels – remind us of praying arms and some plasticine to make something out of. Introduction – with picture of Spring. Lent has a long history. It…
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Spring Prayers & Music
Prayers of Worship & Intercession from our Spring Clean Service Emerging Prayer A sleeping world emerges to new possibilities, For the cycle of life Which brings death and rebirth A. We rejoice in the promise of Spring For lengthening days, for time to play after dinner And sunlight’s warmth upon the soil and our faces…
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Greening of the Cross Liturgy
Greening of the Cross Play dvd clip ‘God’s Wonderful Surprise’ from the Jesus Storybook Bible What a wonderful mystery is this God, this power, this life beyond death. Jesus, the first of the sleepers has risen. Power is His to wake us all from darkness. To bring life into every place. We like…
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Communion Meal – The Jack Pine Tree
Today we have communion meal. This is a time where we remember Jesus’ life. There is a song that I love called ‘The Jack Pine.’ It reminds me of how Jesus’ death has bought life to others. The jack pine tree has its seeds hidden in thick pine cones. The only way these seeds can…
