Worship Planning

Worship outlines for the seasons of the church year using Evangelical Lutheran Worship as the primary resource. Each week’s worship orders include options for Holy Communion and Service of the Word.

Where Two or Three are Gathered – April 7 – May 12, 2024 (Season of Easter, Year B)

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Holy Week and Easter Day 2024

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Lent Year B

Where Two or Three are Gathered – The Epiphany Season Year B

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Advent through Christmas Year B – Dec 2023 through January 2024 

Where Two or Three are Gathered – October 15 to November 26, 2023

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Season of Creation (September 1 – October 8, 2023)

Where Two or Three are Gathered – August 6-27, 2023

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Season after Pentecost (2023)

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Easter 5, Trinity

Lent Planning Workshop

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Easter 2023

Where Two or More are Gathered – Lent 2023

Where Two or Three Are Gathered – Epiphany 2023

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Advent 2022, Revised Common Lectionary, Year A

Where Two or Three are Gathered – Season after Pentecost

Where Two or Three are Gathered: Season of Creation

Where Two or Three are Gathered – 2022 Pentecost Summer

Where Two or Three Are Gathered – Season of Good Friday through Easter

Where Two or Three Are Gathered – Lent

Where Two or Three Are Gathered Epiphany Resources 2022

Where Two or Three Are Gathered Advent 2021

Where Two or Three Are Gathered Easter Season worship planning 2020

Holy Week from Not Counting Sundays

LWF – Easter Liturgy 2020 – resources in a time of physical distancing

When Two or Three are Gathered for Ash Wednesday and Sundays in Lent – Year A (prepared by Rev. Kathy Calkins, ABT Synod)

Holy Week – Year A : Worship for Small Assemblies (prepared by Rev. Kathy Calkins, ABT Synod)

Worship for Small Assemblies – Epiphany and Time after Epiphany Year A 2020 (prepared by Hilla Lahtinen, the Worship Ministry Director of the Eastern Synod of the ELCIC)

Worship for Small Assemblies Advent through Christmas A 2019-2020

The Advent Project of Lutherans Connect provides daily readings and reflections for the Advent season. The theme for the season is Praying for Creation.

https://lcprayingforcreation.blogspot.com/

2019 Ordinary Time until Sunday of Christ the King  (prepared by Rev. John Boyd)

 2019 Time of Creation – Resources for Small Assemblies – Year C

2019 Lent Resources for Small Assemblies – Year C

2019 Epiphany Resources for Small Assemblies – Year C

2018 Advent Resources for Small Assemblies

Fall 2018 – Year B

Remembrance Day 2018

2018 – PCW – Time of Creation

2018 – PCW – Time After Pentecost – SUMMER

2018 Lent Resources for Worship for Small Assemblies

 2018 Easter Resources for Worship for Small Assemblies

We hope you find these resources helpful in your worship planning.

Resources for other seasons include weekly themes, songs, prayers and liturgical and visual ideas as available that are more specifically “ELCIC and ecumenical, Canadian, current and contextual.” If you have any feedback or wish to contribute to this online resource, please contact the editor.

The following weekly resources are available:

Day of Prayer for Jerusalem and The Holy Land

Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) are invited to pray for peace for Jerusalem and the Holy Land on Sunday, May 24, 2020.
For more information: 
https://www.anglican.ca/gr/provinces/jerusalem/sunday/

The ELCIC lifts up the 7th Sunday in Easter for this day of prayer and joins with full communion partner, the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC), who also designates the 7th Sunday in Easter to pray for peace for Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

ELCIC congregations and ministries are encouraged to use the following prayer resources from the ELCIC and ACC:   Jerusalem Holy Land Prayers – 2019