Prepare! 2024-2025 CEB/NRSVue Edition: An Ecumenical Music & Worship Planner

by David L. Bone, Mary Scifres

Overview

A weekly worship planning book for United Methodist pastors and musicians – Refreshed! You’ll find new features like: - The full text from the two most-used Scripture translations, NRSVue and CEB - Blank writing space to record your plans, ideas, and questions - Recommendations for music geared for smaller choirs, solos, duets, and other ensembles - Many new hymn and song suggestions, as well as more song suggestions for modern or contemporary services - Suggested themes for each week, a helpful Theme Index, plus a Scripture Index - Weekly suggestions for using visuals in worship - Reproducible Worship Planning Sheets An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the year, The United Methodist Music and Worship Planner 2024-2025 is lectionary-based and places at your fingertips: - Weekly pages in a spiral-bound format that help you plan the entire worship year from September through August. - Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to United Methodist worship resources: The United Methodist Hymnal, The Faith We Sing, Worship & Song, The United Methodist Book of Worship, and The Africana Hymnal. - Complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings using the Common English Bible translation. - Reproducible worship planning forms. - Resources for holidays and special days. - Suggestions for prayers, solos, anthems, visuals, and much more. In addition, you will find more: - Emphasis on Methodist/Wesleyan theology, worship practices, and historical roots - Consistent Worship elements - Content for contemporary worship services - More innovative worship elements

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781791015725
Publisher:	Abingdon Press
Publication date:	04/16/2024
Edition description:	Prepare! 2024-2025 CEB/NRSVue Edition
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	487,497
Product dimensions:	8.75(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

David L. Bone is Executive Director of The Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Mary Scifres is a United Methodist pastor and church growth consultant. She is the author of The Gospel According to Beauty and the Beast, and co-author of both The Abingdon Worship Annual and Is It Communion Sunday Already?! Find out more at www.maryscifres.com.