All Nations Heritage Week Litany
We hope that this litany from Our World Belongs to God will be helpful to your congregation as you celebrate God's diverse and unified family.
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We hope that this litany from Our World Belongs to God will be helpful to your congregation as you celebrate God's diverse and unified family.
Wondering where to get started planning for Justice and Hope Sunday? We have gathered litanies, prayers, songs, and sermon resources below!
Prayer language to correspond with the words of Christ from the cross. It is adapted here in light of COVID-19 and is suitable for congregational, household, or private prayer.
A small group worship service with scripture, prayer, and songs around the theme, Do Not Fear.
Use this litany (available in English and Spanish) to celebrate the multicultural church of Christ during All Nations Heritage Week, taking place September 28 to October 4 this year.
Synod 2019 included a powerful litany that invited delegates to reflect and lament abuse of power that has caused much harm to many within our CRC community. Safe Church offers and recommends this litany for use in churches.
If you’re not sure what to say, or how to say it, when leading a prayer for the children who are still incarcerated in camps at the U.S. southern border, consider these words based on Psalm 28.
Each year Christian Reformed churches across Canada recognize National Indigenous Peoples day and celebrate the Indigenous Ministries of the CRC. Here are some litanies for this annual day.
This paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 is a choral reading that highlights that we are one body in Christ, whatever our age, ability, income, gender, or ethnicity.
Chaplaincy and Care Sunday takes place on the third Sunday of November. This is a liturgy and prayer that churches can use to acknowledge and support the ministry of chaplains.
Summer worship ideas for planning or leading worship.
Every year churches across the Christian Reformed Church celebrate the multicultural church of Christ during All Nations Heritage Week. This year, the date falls on September 30, 2018. Join us in the celebration!
Justice and hope. Can these two words really go together? We have hope because we are not saving the world, Christ is. Join churches across Canada in marking Justice and Hope Sunday this February 18.
Scripture reminds us over and over that God uses “strangers” and immigrants to bring a blessing. Use this litany in your Sunday worship as a way to remember our many brothers and sisters whose immigration status puts them in need of prayers and to remember stories of immigrants in the Bible.
These holiday worship resources from Mental Health Ministries allow worshipers to reflect and accept the reality of where we are emotionally. They offer a message of hope in the midst of our darkness.
Use these litanies to engage the issue of racism in preaching and worship.
April 23 is Refugee Sunday in Canada. Join World Renew in celebrating God’s goodness and His providence in supporting refugees in need by planning a Refugee Sunday service in your church.
Here are a few Commissioning Service guidelines and litanies that you are free to use as prepared, or modify to meet your needs and circumstances.
The following litany, Telling the Gospel Story, is a reading that we sometimes use in preparation for celebrating communion together.
Will your church be marking the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on Nov. 6 or 13? The CRC Office of Social Justice is pleased to offer a PowerPoint and litany for churches to use.
Back to School Litanies includes 3 great resources: an encouraging Back-to-School Liturgy for children, a positive Back-to-School Liturgy for Youth, and an understanding Back-to-School Liturgy for Educators.
God our Creator, you give breath to each person you made. You treasure the gifts of each unique person. But when life becomes a burden rather than a gift, God of life, hold us.
Last year I was struck by Jesus' words at the triumphal entry that if his disciples kept quiet, the stones would cry out. Moved by this, I created a song/call to worship that I'd like to share with the community.
Use this brief litany as a tool to welcome and engage the gifts of people with disabilities.
In response to the San Bernardino shooting and increasingly hostile anti-Arab and anti-Muslim rhetoric, the Office of Race Relations and Social Justice have collaborated on this litany and prayer.