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How do you get started if your congregation and your staff knows little about the Christian Year? Some of you are undoubtedly in congregations that are quite familiar with it. But many others are not and don’t know quite where to begin.
Obviously, this work of getting started on the Christian Year in your worship life is not going to be something you will tackle by yourself as a worship leader. You’ll need others to join you in learning and studying, in teaching and introducing, and in evaluating the progress your congregation makes.
We discover easily that visual communication is often most effective. So if we are going to teach the Christian Year to our congregation, some diagram or picture of the Christian Year is needed, or at least some helpful metaphor that will portray it’s dynamic.
From his native Guatemala, Pastor Jorge Fuentes came and established himself in the United States. For 18 years, he has been the pastor at the Church of Christ Elim Central in Los Angeles, a numerous and prosperous congregation in Southern California.
Visual artists can help us start talking about major life issues that we don’t often acknowledge in worship.
Pastor Javier Buelna: It is addiction to emotions that creates no change.
Some questions to guide you through the worship planning process.
The Rev. Hugo Molano and his wife Nubia founded Salem International Ministries in their native Columbia in 1979. They continued expanding their work with the planting of new churches in Venezuela, Peru, and Mexico, until reaching the United States about 27 years ago.
A basic flow to the dialogic pattern of worship.
Maybe you heard her song “Try Again” on the TV drama Parenthood or NPR’s Morning Edition.
John Calvin wrote much about the value, purpose, and nature of Christian liturgy.
We need a perspective, a way of conceptualizing our role as worship leaders that will sustain us in our day-to-day work in our congregations.
