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The story of Good Friday and Easter Day is dramatized through the device of "man-on-the-street" interviews. As a radio reporter tries to obtain details of the crucifixion, we hear the viewpoints of many people who witnessed the events, from children to a Roman soldier to a rabbi to some of the disciples. Then we hear radio announcers "on the scene" reporting the astounding good news of the resurrection. With parts for 6 men, 2 women, and 3 chi...

Everyone loves a good story. Storytellers who excel at their craft have the ability to draw readers or listeners into the worlds they create, using characters and situations to entertain and enlighten us. Jesus, the Master Storyteller, often spoke using parables -- short stories that conveyed a spiritual truth. By drawing his listeners into his story, he unlocked their minds and hearts to hear the truth he was trying to relate to them.This com...

How recently have you shared with your congregation and its children the story of the "Christian" Saint Nicholas? This book offers you the opportunity to tell the story in a visual way by dressing the part of the Bishop of Myra, Turkey.Saint Nicholas Speaks enables you to tell the story from your pulpit in an informal format with children or to groups outside the church. The monologue is also appropriate for parents and grandparents to read to...

Jan Spence created this short Christmas Eve children's program for her small, rural church. It includes five brief scenes built around a suggested order of worship. Clergy can easily write a meditation to complete the service.Speaking parts are available for a narrator and two readers. These roles are appropriate for junior or senior high students.Any number of younger children can easily be added in non-speaking roles as shepherds, angels, an...

Setting up a new home is an important experience in the life of all families and individuals. This brief service of celebration enables the extended family of God to share in the joy of this event.Peace Be To Your Home includes an order of service, suggested hymns, scriptures, and prayers.A certificate in the back of this book is an attractive memento of the service. It records the date and participants of the blessing service.As for me and my...

This service requires little preparation and involves only three readers. The build up to Holy Communion is dramatic and scriptural, climaxing in the betrayal of Judas, the sense of corporate guilt, and the need for forgiveness.In Table Talk we hear conversations between Jesus and his friends, enemies, and those who are indifferent. These talks occur at tables where Jesus has come as a guest. The service culminates with Jesus serving as host t...

The familiar music and scripture of the Christmas season is interwoven with prayers and responses for the congregation in this well-crafted Christmas Eve candlelight worship resource. Four readers share speaking parts. Suggested music may be sung either by the congregation or by choir or soloists. Holy Communion may be included as a part of the service.The message suggested for inclusion with the service is a powerful modern take about a twelv...

Light Triumphant is an Easter Vigil service, which may be used as an entity in itself or with the Good Friday Tenebrae, "Out of Darkness Came the Dawn."Light Triumphant features the Easter eve service beginning with all appointments removed from the church chancel area and slowly, dramatically, with appropriate scripture readings and hymns, returns the usual chancel appointments to their places in preparation for the Celebration of the Resurre...

Organs, choirs, hand bells, trumpets -- even a brass quartet -- are all possibilities with this versatile service for Easter morning.Appropriate for use as a sunrise service or regular Sunday worship, this celebration of Easter joy will leave you and your congregation exulting in the full meaning and significance of Christ's triumph over death.Ruthanne Kelchner-Cochran is the pastor of Pinnacle Peak Community Church (United Church of Christ) i...

Ever wonder how the word of Jesus' death was communicated to his many followers? This ecumenical Good Friday worship service is based on the authors' speculation that such an important event must have first been proclaimed and passed from eyewitnesses to others through letters to friends.This complete worship service was the outgrowth of a small ecumenical group working and studying together in their rural Nebraska town. Combining insights fro...

The centerpiece of this Good Friday worship service is the monologue, "The Ghost of Judas." Designed to be presented by the pastor or any layperson who can speak with a sense of drama, the monologue places Judas Iscariot at center stage on the day Christ died. His reflections on his own behavior, his remorse, and his deep sense of regret and self-examination lead the worshiping congregation to search their own souls, an appropriate activity on...

Here is a creative way to introduce ADVENT to your congregation.The program involves youth of any age.Very little preparation time is required.Scripture, tradition, and the lighting of the Advent wreath are combined to provide an enlightening, inspiring worship program.Author Lucille Mewhorter searched for an Advent program to use in her small church. She wanted one that would include young people up through high school age. And with the busy ...

All of us have lost family members, friends, and people who influenced our lives. Although we cannot physically bring these people back to life, they can and do continue to live in our minds, our thoughts, and our dreams. The Empty Chair was created with those people in mind. Of course, The Empty Chair also symbolizes the unseen (yet always talked about) guest at every meal, Jesus himself.Written for a Thanksgiving service, this program in rea...

This Christmas Eve Candlelight Service takes your congregation to the hills and homes of Bethlehem on the night that Jesus was born. Monologs by local shepherds and their families reflect on the hopes and expectations of the common people who populated that quiet, historic town. Prayers and suggested hymns combine with traditional Christmas readings and the drama of candlelight to create a spectacular and reverent Christmas Eve worship event.S...

Your congregation's children are the focus of this spectacular service for Christmas Eve.Traditional Christmas scripture texts are skillfully interwoven with mimed dramatizations, dramatic dialogs in contemporary language, and familiar hymns and carols in this complete order of worship.With something for everyone to do, from pre-schoolers to high school seniors, your children -- and their parents -- will personally experience the joy of the Ch...

The Church Is You and I is a simple but significant Confirmation service and message. The service reflects on the meaning of Confirmation in terms of our relationship to the church. Confirmation is seen as covenant -- an affirmation of our new covenant with God and the church. That covenant calls us to service. It is this theme of service and mutual sharing that is found in the message. The church is seen as people -- not as buildings. The ser...

The Trials of Christ is a readers' theater presentation involving six people. It requires little rehearsal and no memorization.The narrative is biblically based and provides a captivating message for Good Friday or Easter Sunday.The Trials of Christ attempts to demand a stand for truth from its audience, whether that stand be a theological position for Christ or a stand for truth in general. It challenges a congregation to consider the difficu...

Miriam had awaited all her life for the spectacular arrival of God's Messiah. She had dreamed of him stopping at her inn, sleeping on her fine linen pillows, and eating from the expensive bowls she had prepared in anticipation of that day.Why, then, did he pass her by? Why was his arrival proclaimed to the uncouth shepherd who had stolen her daughter's heart away from her mother? Why had he made himself known to the crippled stable boy whom sh...

It's Jesus' Birthday! incorporates all the elements that help to create a beautiful and inspiring Christmas Eve Worship service:The call to worshipThe Christmas hymnsThe announcement of Jesus' birthThe Old Testament prophecyThe New Testament fulfillmentThe setting for children's choir or bell choirThe responsive Christmas litanyAn easy-to-produce skitThe pastor's reflectionsThe Christmas prayersCynthia E. Cowen is a prolific writer of worship ...

Anyone who has used Cynthia Cowen's resources knows that they have the following characteristics:They are complete -- everything you need is here.They require little preparation, rehearsal, or props.They are theologically sound and spiritually uplifting.Many churches have discovered recently that families wish to include worship in the festivities of their Christmas day. This is the perfect way to do it without requiring a lot of work.It's all...