R3 Worship in the Local Church

Welcome to the R3 Worship in the Local Church Weekend web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources relating to topics covered in R3 with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute. These weekends are linked to the Home Church Reflection module

What is this Weekend all about?

The second weekend particularly explores how your church undertakes its worship.

Click here for:

• Full module description for R3
• Sample R3 Programme
• Residential Timetable for dates of the weekend
• Booklists for the weekend
• Handouts for the weekend

Books

• Bowden A Ministry in the Countryside London, Mowbray 1994
• Chauvet, L-M. Symbol and Sacrament Liturgical Press, 1995
• Davie, G. Religion in Britain since 1945 Oxford, Blackwell, 1996
• Dulles, A. Models of the Church 2nd edition Doubleday 1988
• Greenwood, R. Practising Community: the Task of the Local Church London, SPCK 1996
• Macquarrie, J. A Guide to the Sacraments London, SCM, 1997
• Warren, R. Building Missionary Congregations CHP 1995
• Williams, R. Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 2000

R3 Worship in the Local Church Web Resources

The Internet is not 100% reliable and documents move, disappear and change their names. If you find a link does not work, try again in an hour, a day, or a week. But do feel free to email us to report a link doesn't work. Don't forget to tell us the name of the link!

Resources Generally

WEMTC Resources Page

See our resources page for liturgy and worship links that are designed for everyday use rather than academic study.

Worship Resources

Choose relevant links from the library of Graduate Theological Union Berkeley to find preaching, liturgy, prayers, creeds and general worship resources.

Praxis

Praxis produces very good training packs on a variety of liturgical and worship related subjects including Common Worship, the Lectionary and even Church Newsletters.

Anglican and Methodist Liturgies

Common Worship

All the Common Worship services available for downloading in pdf format (You will need an Adobe Acrobat Reader - but you probably already have it on the hard disk somewhere). Great if you don't have Visual Liturgy but less easy to form your own service sheets.

Book of Common Prayer

One of two American sites for copies of the BCP and its predecessors and successors. Note in U.K. this material is copyright and the property of the Crown in perpetuity.

Book of Common Prayer II

The second BCP site (see above)

Visual Liturgy

Visual Liturgy is the CD Rom that contains Common Worship and the Methodist Worship Book for creating your own service sheets. Read all about it here.

International Anglican Liturgies

This has links to liturgical material from quite a few Anglican communions including USA, UK and Wales. It is also a place to find the BCP, CCP and liturgical services for different events. It also contains a collection of Anglican hymnals online with some midi files which saves typing all those hymns into the service sheet.

Liturgies for the Festivals

Lent, Holy Week, Easter

Services and Prayers.Commended by the House of Bishops of the General Synod of the Church of England

Eastern Orthodox Church

Information on the church including the Great Lent and Pascha. (No need to download the pan-European language to use it)

Coptic Orthodox Lectionary

Including the Great Lent and Passion Week

Christmas

This is a general site for Christmas and Advent links that includes some liturgies and other interesting sidelines (drama, sermons, cartoons etc.) on a religious Christmas theme.

The Common Lectionary and Daily Office

American Common Lectionary

Revised Common Lectionary in the American version with readings from NRSV from the Vanderbilt Divinity Library

Celebrating Common Prayer

The Franciscan Daily Office CCP on line.

Why not tell us of some sites you have found useful? If the webmaster agrees we'll list them here.

Go ahead - be the first to submit something

A sample R3 Weekend Programme

Preparation

Programme

Saturday
8:00        Worship
8:30        Breakfast
9:15        Session 2
10:45      Coffee Break
11:15      Session 3
1:00        Lunch
2:00        Free
4:15        Session 4
6:00        Worship
6:30        Dinner
7:30        Session 5

Sunday
8:30        Breakfast
9:15        Session 6
10:30      WEMTC Forum
11:00        Coffee
11:30        Worship
1:00        Lunch

Preparatory Assignment

ASSIGNMENT 2 WORSHIP IN THE LOCAL CHURCH

I am currently awaiting an electronic version of the assignment - please come back shortly.

Resources Addition Form

Contribution to this Page

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Content summary

• Sharing experiences of the local church in a number of different contexts, such as liturgy, local community, pastoral care, ministerial practice.
• Exploration of models of the Church in relation to the local church
• Developing tools for collecting and understanding church data
• Use of the Pastoral Cycle
• Biblical models and stories of Church and their relationship to the local church
• Reflection on liturgy and the local church
• The Church's role in the community with reference to the local church
• Reflections on the Church and pastoral care in relation to the local church
• An exploration of Missiological themes in relation to the local church
• Worship and Sacraments including: Worship on the Course; Learning from Tradition; Worship and the Senses; Recent experiments in liturgy

Learning outcomes

a) Knowledge and Understanding

• Be familiar with some of the significant theological models for the Church
• Have an understanding of different worship traditions and ways of being the Church within an ecumenical perspective
• Understand a variety of traditions and perspectives on the relationship between Church and Community
• Have considered a number of models of pastoral care as exemplified in the communities represented by the group
• Deepened their understanding of the nature of worship Have considered different understandings of the role and nature of the sacraments

b) Skills

• Have gained skills in working and theologically reflecting with a small group.
• Have gained a respect for the strengths of traditions other than their own
• Demonstrate an understanding of the pastoral cycle
• Be able to theologically describe and reflect on their home church
• Be able to connect scriptural insights to their home church context
• Be able to apply theological insights in practical situations
• Be equipped to organise and lead worship within WEMTC and have developed the confidence to explore worship within the home church

Teaching and learning

Assessment

Indicative resources

• Bowden A Ministry in the Countryside London, Mowbray 1994
• Chauvet, L-M. Symbol and Sacrament Liturgical Press, 1995
• Davie, G. Religion in Britain since 1945 Oxford, Blackwell, 1996
• Dulles, A. Models of the Church 2nd edition Doubleday 1988
• Greenwood, R. Practising Community: the Task of the Local Church London, SPCK 1996
• Macquarrie, J. A Guide to the Sacraments London, SCM, 1997
• Warren, R. Building Missionary Congregations CHP 1995
• Williams, R. Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 2000