Your gifts to Mission and Service should be celebrated, and what better place than in worship. Mission and Service provides clean water, food, shelter, medical aid, community of faith support, refugee programs, and emergency aid, both in Canada and globally.
Please use these resources to tell the story of the generosity and compassion shown through your support.
Remember, Stories = Minutes for Mission. An updated name for the same great resources.
Mission and Service This Season
- Advent Appeal 2023: Bringing hope, peace, joy and love to people who need it. (Video)
- New Year’s Eve Liturgy and Service: Celebrating the Renewal of Our Covenant with God (58.09 KB) (Word): A liturgy and sermon that can be shared on New Year's Eve Sunday (December 31) or to celebrate Epiphany (January 7).
Worship Ideas
- 2023 Indigenous Day of Prayer | The Possibility of New Beginnings (58.95 KB) (Word): Worship service that addresses change and the remit on an autonomous National Indigenous Organization in the United Church.
- Advent Candle Lighting Liturgy Lifts Up Mission and Service Projects (26.02 KB) (Word): Liturgies for Advent and White Gift Sunday that incorporate and Mission & Service story.
- Your Generosity Matters 2023 PDF (1.17 MB) (PDF): 8 Inspiring Mission and Service Stories and Devotions.
- Your Generosity Matters 2023 Word (142.19 KB) (Word): 8 Inspiring Mission and Service Stories and Devotions.
Related Material
- Five Easy Ways to Promote Mission and Service (14.01 MB) (PDF): Simple steps United Churches can take to promote Mission and Service on Sundays.
- Make A Gift Through Mission & Service Today!: Help transform and save lives, inspire meaning and purpose, and build a better world.
- Our Generation: The Mission & Service Music Video 2019!: Toronto Conference youth's song "Our Generation" is the theme song for this Mission & Service music video.
Worship Blog
Why Do You Have a Building?
The Rev. Brenna Baker invites us to tell a new story about our church buildings and what the community would lose if we didn’t have them.
A Revolution of Generosity and Simplicity
Vicki Nelson writes about creating space to learn about simplicity, generosity, and stewardship.
A Life-Shaping Decision
Rev. Roger Janes writes about the wise stewardship decision to "pay God first."
A Healthy Lent
Rev. Melody Duncanson Hales writes on the importance of being intentional about our spiritual practices during the season of Lent.
For more inspiring worship ideas and resources subscribe to GatheringWorship.ca!
