"Visions of Lent Year 2 "-- Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) offers congregations a weekly presentation to be included in the regular Lenten worship service. This follow-up to Volume 1 (which concentrated on the Feast of Passover) focuses on the Palm Sunday story and six elements within that story that were significant parts of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. The festival is rooted in Leviticus 23:33f, where God commanded Moses to declare the festival to the people of Israel as a reminder of the temporary shelters they lived in when He delivered them out of Egypt.
Preparation for...

Experience a story of seeming despair, tragedy, and restored hope -- of a loving daughter, her carpenter father, and the trials they face when he is branded a leper. A full order of worship, staging instructions, a "children's moment", and production and lighting suggestions are included.

"Every congregation should consider incorporating this welcome addition to Christmas resources into its programming soon."
Walter Farquharson
Moderator
The United Church of Canada
"The blend of insights and sounds makes the Christmas story come alive."
Anne M. Squire
Former Moderator
The United Church of Canada
"An excellent resource for those designing Christmas eve worship for all ages."
Marilyn Perry
General editor
"The Whole People of God," Lectionary curriculum
Attention congregations with young children Here is an exciting, happy,...

A new and unusual service for Lent...
At the beginning of Lent each family in the congregation is invited to lend a plant from home (silk or live), following a Jewish Shavuot custom. The following Sundays in Lent build on this focal point as an object is added each week. Two readers participate in a dialogue explaining the symbol for that day. A child brings the symbol forward and holds it during the dialogue. In this way several families are able to participate.
"Visions of Lent Year 3 "also includes:
- Sample bulletin insert prior to Lent
- Example of plant reminder that...

Worship in Lent provides an opportunity for a congregation to reflect significantly on our faith. Unlike Advent and Christmas, Lent is free from the excitement busyness and commercialism that distract us as worshipers. We need to hear God's voice afresh. The Passover tradition is a wonderful vehicle for that kind of listening, writes Betty Lynn Schwab.
"Visions Of Lent, Year 1" (three-book series) is a resource for congregational worship on each of the six Sundays in Lent. Special to Year 1 is a Maundy Thursday communion service.
The series provides congregations with a weekly...