The Ministry Lab supports worship leaders with robust resources.
Check out these resources to help clergy, sacristans, musicians, and other leaders prepare and facilitate meaningful worship.
Liturgy and Music
- Taking 2nd Easter off? Take advantage of Lutherans Restoring Creation’s 3rd Annual Earth Day Worship Service. Free to share!!
- Our Pentecost Great Ideas are numerous and rich with overlapping guidelines including story-sharing, community-building, prayer, and worship. See:
- For more general worship prep and liturgical arts resources, see Liturgy, Music, & Liturgical Arts
Preaching
- For prompts, sample sermons, preparatory study and more, for preaching about antiracism, diversity, and social transformation, see our curated lists on:
- Pentecost & Trinity Sundays
- Worship: Lectionary & Preaching
- Worship: Racism/LGBTQ+/Diversity-Specific
- Racism: Spirituality, Identity, & Healing: Preaching about…
- Racism: Restorative Justice
Children & Youth
- Children, Youth, Families & Intergenerational includes general resources for all ages, including Children’s Story Time
Technology
Amidst continuing upheaval in decision-making, find inspirations, support, and tips for hybrid worship:
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!
CELEBRATE DIVERSITY – PENTECOST STYLE!
Read the Pentecost text (Acts 2:1-21) in all the languages of your congregation. For tips on recruiting leaders to building a full worship service, read more.
Let Pentecost be a celebration of the diversity that God is drawing into Beloved Community!!
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.