Resources for Congregational leadership

Welcome! This congregational development web presence offers resources for liturgy and music and many helpful topics on congregational life. Click on any of the colored text to visit that resource.

Liturgy and Spirituality Resources

• Episcopal Chruch Center Office for Liturgy and Music
• The Cener for Liturgy
• The Process of Lectio Divina “Listening Prayer”
• Innovative Worship Resources
• Anglo-Catholic Liturgical Resources
• Weekly Guide for Daily Prayer
• The Divine Hours – A complete guide to the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer
• Sermons That Work

Supply Clergy List

Colors of the Church Year and Seasonal Dates

The Church Year begins with Advent in November/December.
This is YEAR B of readings in the Revised Common Lectionary.
Year A: 2004-2005, 2007-2008, 2010-2011
Year B: 2005-2006, 2008-2009, 2011-2012
Year C: 2006-2007, 2009-2010, 2012-2013
The Dates of the Church Year, RCL Year B, 2008-2009

Revised Common Lectionary: Years A, B and C

Resources and Reflections on Worship

What is Liturgy? Evangelicals and Liturgical Worship
Essay on the growing trend of evangelicals toward liturgical worship, with a summary of its seven main elements.
The Prayers of the People
The theological basis for the liturgy of the “Prayers of the People,” with an example.
Teach Us to Pray: Public Prayers for Services of Worship
Short article introducing the need and value of written prayers for public worship, with a menu to a range of model prayers for use in worship.
Word and Table: Reflections on a Theology of Worship
An examination of the theological basis for the renewed emphasis on “word and table” as the structure for Christian worship in some historically low-church traditions; the balance of word and table in worship.

Small-Church Growth Strategy Handbook

A dynamic set of tools designed to affirm and strengthen vitality in small-membership churches (generally those with an average Sunday attendance of seventy or less). Small-membership churches represent approximately half of all Episcopal congregations. [download here]