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Uworship: Te Basics Published by Evangelism and Church Growth, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Louisville, Kentucky. Every efort has been made to trace copyrights on the materials included here. If any copyrighted material has nevertheless been included without permission and due acknowledgment, proper credit will be inserted in future printings once notice has been received. © 2015 Evangelism and Church Growth, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation, Louisville, KY. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce any material included in this resource, unless otherwise noted with an asterisk (*). Printed in the U.S.A. Ta b l e o f Co n t e n ts Introduction . 1 Lectionary ..... 9 GERB ........................................................................ 19 Gather ................................................................. 20 Encounter .............................................................. 27 Respond................................................................ 31 Bless................................................................... 43 Creative Arts Resources ............................................................46 Occasional Services .............................................................. 49 Liturgical and Academic Calendar .............................................xx First Week .......................................................... 50 Finding Our Place .................................................... 56 Family Weekend...................................................... 60 Homecoming and Alumni/ae ............................................ 63 Tanksgiving ........................................................ 66 Advent ............................................................. 70 Service of Lessons and Carols ............................................ 74 New Year/Epiphany ................................................... 77 Ash Wednesday ...................................................... 81 Maundy Tursday .................................................... 86 Good Friday ......................................................... 88 Easter .............................................................. 93 Final Exams ......................................................... 97 Graduation/Sending ................................................... 99 Service and Mission ...................................................... 103 Days of Service ...................................................... 104 Commissioning ..................................................... 106 Final Night of a Mission Trip ........................................... 109 Reentry from a Mission Trip............................................ 112 Pastoral Care and Lament ................................................. 115 Service for Healing and Wholeness....................................... 116 Service of Lamentation (Personal Tragedy) ................................. 119 Service of Lamentation (Public Tragedy)................................... 121 Glossary ..................................................................... 123 iii Introduction UWorship: Te Basics Welcome to the UKirk UWorship resource. Already in that frst sentence you may realize that the people who wrote this sometimes use strange language. UKirk? What’s that? Why do you call it a resource? You may also have some questions about why this exists, how best to use it, and who put it together. We’ve tried to answer some of those questions in this introduction, though, of course, we might have missed something. Still, what’s below should be enough to help you start to use the materials we’ve gathered here. What is UKirk? UKirk means University (U) Church (Kirk). It is a network of (predominantly) Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) campus ministers and students who share information, resources, and ideas in order to support their ministries. Tese ministries reach, love, and teach college students to be lifelong followers of Jesus Christ. During the lead-up to the 220th gathering of the PC(USA) General Assembly in 2012, a small group was busy preparing for a presentation that would unveil a new direction for denominational campus ministry. A number of themes emerged, many of them related to providing connections and resources for those serving college students. But what would this mean? For one thing, UKirk provides a unifying brand identifying PC(USA) campus ministries from coast to coast. It has also called for gatherings for those serving students to come together and share ideas. Furthermore, UKirk has promised resources for campus ministry leaders—both students and ministry types. UKirk is committed to encouraging “prayer, participation, and support” and to promoting “the sharing of resources, models, and best practices” (ukirk.org). UWorship is one of the frst of such resources. Why UWorship? Other than being a cool way to link this resource with the name for this network of support for college ministries, UWorship can also be read as a charge, an imperative: “Hey, you! Worship!” It reminds us that, as much as we grow and are changed through worship, worship is also something that we do because of who God is. Worship is about God and is directed to God. Worship is a response to what God has done and a preparation ground for what God calls us to do throughout our whole lives. Our ultimate hope is that what we’ve put together here helps you and your community to worship and glorify God. Te letter U also helps us remember that worshiping God is something that we all do and something that we do together. Worship is not just a time for “me.” Neither is it like a concert, where one person or group is doing the performing while everyone else sits back and watches. Instead, worship involves everyone—young, old, sick, healthy, men, women, the stranger, the outcast, the athlete, the scientist, the artist, dean’s list and D-average students alike. As we support each other in talking with God, crying out to God, and giving God thanks, as we encourage each other to dive deeper into what we believe, as we help each other to grow in our trust of God and others, we fnd that each one of us grows and comes to see God in new and beautiful ways. Finally, of course, UWorship was designed with university and college contexts in mind. However, we also hope (and believe) that people from churches, faith-based organizations, retreat centers, and youth groups will fnd what we’ve gathered here useful. 1 Who was involved in writing UWorship? Mainly a group of people who have worked and continue to work in campus ministries across the country. Some of us have served in congregationally based campus ministries. Others have worked in ministries supported by boards. Still others work mainly as chaplains. Not all of us have worked in campus ministry, though. Some of us just love worship and crafting liturgy, especially liturgy built with young people in mind! We also worked closely with the PC(USA) Presbyterian Mission Agency ofces of Collegiate Ministries and Teology and Worship. What is a lectionary and how do I use it? Te Bible remains one of the major ways that people who call themselves Christians believe they encounter God. For those of us who are a part of the Reformed tradition, reading, praying, and even singing the Bible are important things we do in worship. Even when we do not specifcally reference a Scripture passage, what we do in worship is often inspired by a word, phrase, or passage from the Bible. But sometimes it’s hard to know what specifc part of Scripture to engage on any particular Sunday, and all too often we gravitate toward certain sections of the Bible. Tis is like choosing classes from only one area of the curriculum, depriving ourselves of a well-rounded education. In order to deeply know God, and to enter into the deep and ongoing conversation to which the Bible invites us, we believe that we should try to engage as much of the Bible as possible. So, a lectionary ofers Scripture passages—typically one Gospel passage, one passage from the remaining books of the New Testament, one passage from the Old Testament, and a psalm—to consider from week to week. It is a way of helping us to encounter more of the Bible as well as to fnd ideas for our worship before the well of our favorite passages runs dry. Now, many churches already use a lectionary, one called the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL). Tis is good. It’s actually very powerful to know that, if your church is using the RCL, millions of other people around the world are also reading, praying, and meditating on the same verses of Scripture as you. Why did we create a UWorship lectionary? Well, frst, we should note that this resource is not designed to replace the RCL or the liturgical calendar in any way. However, we set out to create a lectionary that coincided with the student academic calendar, one that makes sense with their lives and schedules, bearing in mind the holidays and seasons they spend on and of campus. Te RCL is based on a three-year cycle, which means that it runs through a particular set of passages once every three years, then begins repeating these again. So, if on the frst Sunday of Year A a church reads a passage from Matthew 24, it would read that same passage again three years later. But most colleges and universities average a four-year program. Tis inspired us to base our lectionary on a four-year cycle, with each year covering one of the four Gospels. Whereas in the RCL, the Gospels are regularly intermixed, in the UWorship lectionary, each Gospel
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