Creative Worship: Services from Advent to Pentecost - Tapa blanda

Poems, readings, songs, and other ideas to build creative worship services covering the major seasons of the Christian year. Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. There are services for Christmas. A Service of Solace remembers with love and thanksgiving those who have died. Worship together at New Year and journey with Jesus through the last hours of his life with a Passover re-enactment, a Tenebrae service, a Good Friday liturgy focused on Christ's "seven words form the cross", and cry "alleluia" in joy on Easter morning. For Pentecost there is an agape meal for use in homes or at the church, including a celebration of gifts and graces. For each there is a full liturgy.

IAN PRICE is the Associate Director of MediaCom. A Uniting Church minister for 20 years, he has served three parishes in South Australia and the UCA Board of Education Exective Director in New South Wales prior to joining MediaCom.

Carolyn Kitto is the Mission Planning Consultant for the Uniting Church Board of Mission. She is also a qualified youth worker, and has particular gifts in worship and education.