‘Shaping Worship: Creation’s Climate Crisis – responding in faith’

Wednesday 15 March 2:00-5:30 on Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85184771951

‘Shaping Worship: Creation’s Climate Crisis – responding in faith’

We have arrived at our Earth Environment’s Crisis/Kairos Moment – how can worship help us wake up?

Spring Conference sponsored by the Joint Liturgical Group of Great Britain

Presenters:

• Bible Power – Can the Bible wake us up to Climate Chaos?   - Revd Dr Rosalind Selby (URC), Principal of Northern College, Manchester

• Time for listening – worship to wake us up   – Revd Phillip Melstrom, Church of Scotland

• People Power – Can we wake up our congregations?   --  Steve Hucklesby,  Policy Advisor for JPIT, Joint Public Issues Team.  Waking up to the climate emergency, our Christian faith, and preserving the planet as Christians (worked 10 years in conflict and post-conflict settings in Africa and Asia)

• Science – Can the truth wake us up?     - presenter TBC, hopefully, a Scientist from Norway

Isaiah 24:4 NRSV

The earth dries up and withers,

the world languishes and withers;

the heavens languish together with the earth.

The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; 

Everyone is welcome to attend.  For more information, please visit Here.

For the Zoom link, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85184771951  (Meeting ID: 851 8477 1951) 

contact:    worshipwordsmatter@gmail.com

Shaping our Every Day Prayer – Zoom Conference September 22, 2021

Joint Liturgical Group of Great Britain presents

“Shaping our everyday prayer”

A Zoom Conference for all who pray and lead prayer in Christian Communities

22nd September 2021

2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. (Zoom will open at 2:00)

For more info, please visit HERE.

Join in at Zoom link HERE

There is no registration fee, but donations will be accepted on the day, for the costs of the day and the on-going work of the Joint Liturgy Group.

Contemplation & Prayer — Fr. David Birchall will lead the Conference in imaginative contemplation and reflective prayer.

Watch and Pray: responding to visual art as a practice of prayer — Revd Peter Gardner will invite us to open our eyes, to look with attentive curiosity and to consider what we would choose to look at when we pray. He will reflect on ways that contemporary visual art practice can enhance our ways of seeing and transform our everyday prayer as individuals and worshipping communities.

About our presenters:

Fr. David Birchall joined the Jesuits in 1976 and was ordained in 1985. For nine years he was the Director of St Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality centre. He is currently Director of the Ignatian Spiritual centre in Glasgow.

Rev Peter Gardner lives and works in Glasgow. Visual artist and Church of Scotland minister, Peter studied at the University of St Andrews, Edinburgh University and Leith School of Art. Ordained in 1988, Peter has served in rural and city centre Parishes and currently is the Church’s pioneer minister among the visual arts communities of Glasgow. Together with his wife Heidi, they form visual artist duo Gardner & Gardner. Their art practice focuses on temporary, site-specific installations and interventions, often set within the context of worshipping communities and their buildings, introducing a conceptual element into the sacred architecture and drawing attention to the sacred found in contemporary culture.

JLG Conference - Shaped by Welcome: Generous Worship

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On Wednesday 11th March 2020 the Joint Liturgical Group will be holding its fifth annual one day conference. This year we will be looking at how our welcome shapes our worship through the concept of an invitational approach to Church going. The day will be led by Michael Harvey who is a co-founder of Back to Church Sunday. He has developed the concept of invitation as a mission tool across seventeen countries. Michael will address the subject and facilitate discussion on how we invite people to share in communities of faith.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

Venue: St. Aloysius Church Hall, 20 Phoenix Road, Euston, London, NW1 1TA
(Next to Euston Station, very convenient for St Pancras/King’s Cross Stations)

Doors open 10.30 a.m for an 11am start. Finish by 3.30pm

Price £25 (Includes light lunch)

Further Details, please visit the JLG website here.

Booking/Tickets via Eventbrite here.

Note: The Joint Liturgical (jlg.org.uk) exists as a creative working group. It offers materials to churches and ecumenical bodies, organises conferences, and advises and comments on worship matters. Work produced by the group is offered to churches and worship leaders to use as they see fit. Currently about one third of the active the membership of the group is drawn from denominations that are members of the Free Church Group.

Free worship resources for Advent and Christmas services, produced by the Joint Liturgical Group

New resources for worship are generally welcomed by worship leaders and the Joint Liturgical group has developed free to use material for three sequences ideally suited to a Sunday evening or weeknight celebration during Advent. Too often the distinction between the preparation for Christmas and the celebration of Christmas is lost. The material suggested by the group helps to preserve that distinction. The three sequences for Advent are:

Prepare the Way of the Lord
The Jesse Tree
Advent Refrains

Worship leaders are encouraged to consider this material and adapt the patterns offered to suit their local situations or simply incorporate some of the ideas or text offered into their own services.

The full text of these resources may be downloaded as a pdf file here.

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In addition to the Advent resources, the Joint Liturgical group has produced a further four patterns for use during the Christmas & Epiphany Season. These four sequences are entitled:

The Promise Fulfilled
Christmas Eve (a traditional 9 Lessons and Carols)
Light to the Nations
The Glory of Christ Revealed

As with the Advent sequences, each pattern is offered with a number of options including ideas for readings, music, prayer and other elements drawing on texts and material from across the Churches.

The full text of these resources may also be downloaded as a pdf file here.

The Joint Liturgical Group (jlg.org.uk) exists as a creative working group. It offers rites and texts to the churches and ecumenical bodies, organises conferences, and advises and comments on worship matters. Work produced by the group is offered to churches to use as they see fit. The Free Churches Group (FCG) has been a member of the JLG since 1995. Whilst the larger Free Churches are members in their own right, the FCG representatives have sought to enhance the work of the group with some of the distinctive insights that can be drawn from the smaller, less traditionally liturgical, Free Churches.

For more information and resources please visit The Joint Liturgical Group website here.