Christian Worship: Service Builder will be an indispensable tool in every congregation’s worship ministry. Every task associated with worship planning and preparation takes only a fraction of the time it once did. Worship leaders 'need to offer prayers, prepare an order of worship, select music, and even prepare a sermon.
Want to print the full text of the appointed readings? It’s not only possible, it’s fast. The Abingdon Worship Annual 2019 (AWA 2019) offers fresh worship planning resources for all who plan and implement weekly worship. Want to omit a stanza or two from a hymn? Simply select the stanzas you want included and Christian Worship: Service Builder instantly redraws the musical notation to include only your selected stanzas.
Like the customizations you’ve made? Save them as a template to instantly access them for future worship plans. Powerful layout options are available for every element of the service, if desired. The application offers contextual suggestions to speed the process of planning and preparation and provides powerful resources to manage a local congregation’s entire library of liturgical texts, local customizations, and imported resources.īuilt-in and customizable print templates make it fast and easy to generate a standard worship folder and a large-print version with just one click. Worship planners may further customize the display of every element of the service in a visual interface (see opposite page).
Once the hymns have been added, it is possible to generate a print-ready worship folder or screen-ready slide deck in a matter of minutes. Planning begins by selecting a day from the lectionary calendar and selecting an order of service-whether one of the standard settings or any number of customized options. Included are suggestions for each season: rites, blessings, prayers, litanies, pageants, and checklists. Following the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle and the church calendar year, this is the all-in-one liturgical season planner for worship.
Christian Worship: Service Builder® offers an intuitive and effective workflow. This is the indispensable companion for worship planning for the Episcopal Church.