The Ministry Lab supports worship leaders with robust resources.
Check out these resources to help clergy, sacristans, musician, and other leaders prepare and facilitate meaningful worship.
Liturgy and Music
- We’re developing an Earth Day resource list: keep checking back for frequent additions!
- Hybrid Know-How webinars – such as Convergence’s 3-Week Cohort, How to Do Hybrid Church and The Indiana-Kentucky Conference (UCC) two-session So You Want to Build a Hybrid Worship Experience – are cropping up. Find an up-to-date list in our Blue Whirl Webinar page.
- See our Worship: Covid Considerations lib guide for Emerging from Covid resources in worship and hospitality.
Preaching
- See our Worship: Racism/LGBTQ+/Diversity-Specific lib guide for insight, wisdom and tools for preaching for justice, especially dismantling racism.
Children & Youth
- Find tips for including children in Holy Week as well as intergenerational approaches to Holy Week, including Stations of the Cross and Easter Pageants in our Lent & Easter lib guide.
- See some excellent Lenten devotions and activity resources in our Faith Formation: Lent & Easter lib guide.
Technology
As we glimpse an emergence from gathering restrictions, find inspirations, support, and tips for hybrid worship in our Worship: Covid Considerations and Reimagining Church: Post-Covid lib guides.
Hard Copy Resources
Hard copy resources—including how-tos, liturgical elements, and music—are available for preview or to borrow. Contact Rev. Emily Meyer to access these resources.
Great Idea
Generated by The Ministry Lab’s partners, congregational leaders and director. If you have a Great Idea to share, let us know!
Triduum Plethora
This Great Idea is just a plethora of Holy Week/Triduum suggestions from Rev. Elsa Cook: it is jam packed and requires no editing!
While Cook doesn’t offer many options for the Easter Vigil, you can find a Pandemic Vigil here.
Thanks, Rev. Cook for this Holy Week in Coronatide Great Idea.
VISUAL WORD
Visual Word videos—created by gifted United Theological Seminary, judicatory and community artists—provide theologically sound, artistically rich resources for a variety of parts of worship.
They enrich local expressions of church by providing diverse perspectives and creative elements. The videos are appropriate to seasons of the church year and are shareable online or in person.
Learn More
Have something you’d like to discuss? Need to check out resources? Share questions, interests and ideas with The Ministry Lab’s Executive Director, Rev. Emily Meyer.