Book Description

A weekly worship planning book for United Methodist pastors and musicians – Refreshed! You’ll find new features like: - The full text from the two most-used Scripture translations, NRSVue and CEB - Blank writing space to record your plans, ideas, and questions - Recommendations for music geared for smaller choirs, solos, duets, and other ensembles - Many new hymn and song suggestions, as well as more song suggestions for modern or contemporary services - Suggested themes for each week, a helpful Theme Index, plus a Scripture Index - Weekly suggestions for using visuals in worship - Reproducible Worship Planning Sheets An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the year, The United Methodist Music and Worship Planner 2024-2025 is lectionary-based and places at your fingertips: - Weekly pages in a spiral-bound format that help you plan the entire worship year from September through August. - Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to United Methodist worship resources: The United Methodist Hymnal, The Faith We Sing, Worship & Song, The United Methodist Book of Worship, and The Africana Hymnal. - Complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings using the Common English Bible translation. - Reproducible worship planning forms. - Resources for holidays and special days. - Suggestions for prayers, solos, anthems, visuals, and much more. In addition, you will find more: - Emphasis on Methodist/Wesleyan theology, worship practices, and historical roots - Consistent Worship elements - Content for contemporary worship services - More innovative worship elements