Content for Online Worship
Content for Online Worship
Below are worship resources produced by the conference or shared by other settings that may be used by churches during worship or other gatherings.
New: Musical performances that have been used in various Conference settings are available for churches to download for use in their own worship services under their own licenses. Find them in the Music Performance Showcase.
Daily Devotionals
Starting With Scripture Weekly Devotional
Starting With Scripture is a weekly devotional curated by Drew Page of the Southern New England Conference, UCC.
Silver Lake Sunday Worship
Silver Lake Worship Service Videos
The Silver Lake Conference Center has made a complete virtual worship service available for churches that they may use - in whole or in parts - to celebrate their church's participation in outdoor ministry
Resources Based on the Lectionary Cycle
Advent
A Video for the First Week of Advent
Written by Cindy Bailie, Chair of OPTIC, UCC
Hymns by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette - For Advent
Churches are given permission to use all hymns contained on Carolyn's site during the pandemic free of charge. Hymns may be including worship services that are livestreamed and hosted on Zoom.
Three Great Loves Advent Toolkit
This toolkit, offered in digital download form, includes social media graphics and weekly video Advent prayers written and recorded by UCC clergy. Great Loves is our denomination-wide mission initiative, telling the story of how we live out God’s love through the lens of 3 Great Loves: Love of Neighbor, Love of Children, and Love of Creation.
AdventWord
A global, online Advent calendar. Join an international community in prayer to explore the mystery and wonder of Advent!
The Work of the People - Advent
A subscription-based platform for mini-movies and film. You may incorporate these resources in whole, or in part, into your worship services that are livestreamed. You may not upload these resources directly to Facebook or YouTube as a standalone work. They must exist as part of a worship service.
Christmas
The Southern New England Conference offered a special online worship for churches to use the Sunday after Christmas in 2020. That worship service is available here.
Lent
Lenten Prayer of Transformation
“The Life-Giving Lattice of the Ordinary”
Service of the Word, Holy Communion, Tenebrae
by the Rev. Quentin Chin
An interactive service designed for virtual worship using Zoom
(May be adapted for other formats)
Simple Tennebrae service (video)
Developed by Jennifer Geary, who gives permission for anyone to use.
Service Developed by Laura Westby
Easter
Series of Easter Worship videos produced by a team of Conference worship leaders.
Eastertide
Worship with the Council of Conference Ministers
We invite you and your congregation to attend this worship service on May 17th, 2020, or any other Sunday in this Eastertide. Here you will find a printable bulletin, a printable read-only service for those without easy access to internet, and a 50 minute video service. The video service is available in segments and in full. Join for the whole service or your congregation might also choose to use just a few of our videos.
Season of Pentecost
Council of Conference Ministers Offer Worship Resources
The Council of Conference Ministers developed a worship service centered around the Parable of the Talents which is suitable for the 24th week of Pentecost and usable in many other seasons as well. It has been crafted and offered by Conference Ministers from across the country, including our own Marilyn Kendrix.
Resources Across all Seasons
Strathdee Music
A website packed with original music by Jean and Jim Strathdee. Churches may incorporate their sing-a-long videos in worship services. Works utilized must be attributed and reported to CCLI or OneLicense.
Queer Sacred Music
Featuring the music of Amanda Udis-Kessler, the 100+ pieces on this site are free to use with attribution. No licensing or reporting is required.
Art in the Christian Tradition
Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database is a regularly updated visual image internet resource. Designed for scholars, students, pastors, and religious educators, all of the images may be used for non-commercial purposes, with attribution.
2020 Annual Meeting
Permission granted to SNEUCC churches to use this recording in their own worship services, but they must do so under their own licenses. The SNEUCC license does not extend to local church use.
Bert Marshall has video recorded a telling of the Gospel of Mark, and invites churches to use it in their own settings.
Available here on YouTube.
The UCC is also posting online worship resources here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_RKfy_VOzelb5jbXV7UW5ytjmiI-_Md-W0H8UaRlaM/edit?ts=5e66621c
And here: www.ucc.org/worship_worship-ways
Council of Conference Ministers Offer Worship Resources
The Council of Conference Ministers developed a worship service centered around the Parable of the Talents which is usable in many seasons. It has been crafted and offered by Conference Ministers from across the country, including our own Marilyn Kendrix.
SNEUCC Devotion
The Three Bridge Conference Ministers, Rev. Marilyn Kendrix, Rev. Don Remick, and Rev. Kent Siladi, share a message and reflection on Colossians 2:5, speaking about the new ways we are learning to be church. (Click the CC button for closed captioning).
Oh God, I’m Spinning Out: A Prayer by Rev. Dr. Hannah Adams Ingram