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Blue Christmas

Contributed by Rick Marshall

A Service of Remembrance for the Time of Advent and Christmas

Christmas can be a painful time for some. It may be the first Christmas without a loved family member who has recently died; it may be a time that has always been difficult. The constant refra..

A Ceremony of Lessons and Carols

Contributed by Jeanyne Slettom

This service of lessons and carols is based on the traditional set of readings with some changes. It retains lessons 3-9, but shifts the message of lessons 1 and 2 away from original sin toward original blessing. The first reading is God’s creation and..

Advent Candle Liturgy

Contributed by Jeanyne Slettom

This liturgy, which includes candle lighting and benediction/commission and blessing, was written to reflect a process-relational theology.

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Candle liturgy

One: The Gospel of John speaks of Christ as the true light coming into ..

Hanging of the Greens: First Sunday of Advent

Contributed by Slettom Jeanyne

adaptation by Jeanyne Slettom

Hanging of the Greens: First Sunday of Advent

The Hanging of the Greens is a service for the first Sunday in Advent. It is based on the English tradtion of decorating the home with wreaths, garlands, a Christmas tre..

Service of Adult Baptism and Confirmation

Contributed by C. Kit Wilke

INVITATION TO CONFIRMATION

Kit:

M.E.K.:

Kit: we invite you to come forward to be baptized or to affirm the commitment of your baptism through Confirmation.

Kit: Friends, we are on a journey together. We are part of the pilgrimage of..

Process & Faith Table Grace

Contributed by Paul Nancarrow

(sung to Tallis Canon)
O gracious Giver of all good
And loving keeper of our deeds,
Accept our thanks for this good food
And serve through us our neighbor’s needs.

A Brief Communion Service

By Jeanyne Slettom

Jesus said: I am the bread of life.
All who come to me shall not hunger,
and all who believe in me shall not thirst.

With Christians around the world
and throughout the centuries,
we gather around these symbols
of bread and wine—simple elements
that speak..

Prayer of Invocation

By Sharon Rhodes-Wickett

Creating, beckoning, loving God,
We invoke our heightened attentiveness that you are with us, within us, and beyond us.
We praise you that you never give up on us.
We acknowledge we are a stiff-necked people who get stuck without ever intending it.

So..

Pastoral Prayer for the Gulf Oil Spill

By Jeanyne Slettom

“When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51).

Loving God,
We seek clarity in all the dimensions of our lives–our relationships, our work, our leisure.
Like Jesus, who set his face toward Jerusalem in the ce..

Process-Friendly Hymns: Trinitarian and Unitarian Compatible

Legend COC: Circles of Care, by Ruth Duck CH: The Chalice Hymnal, by the Disciples of Christ VU: Voices United, by the United Church of Canada UMH: The United Methodist Hymnal, by the United Methodist Church FWS: The Faith We Sing, by the United Method..