Worship

In this worship page you’ll find the Regional Council prayer cycle, Annual Meeting worship services, Affirming Sunday liturgies, special services, links to national and other resources, and more!

Click here for the Pulpit Supply List – April 28, 2025

A downloadable Hospital Chaplaincy Sunday Service has been prepared by the Hospital Chaplains in Living Skies Regional Council, Revs Emily Carr and Lorna King. Please feel free to use some or all of it to celebrate chaplaincy in your community.

I_WILL_SING_TO_OUR_GOD – a Walter Farquharson / Richard Hall hymn addressing the invasion of Ukraine

Here are worship materials for use on March 21, 2021.
They are provided as documents that you might edit to suit your own context – include your territorial acknowledgement and other content specific to your regular worship practice. The PowerPoint slides are a skeleton for you to insert into your own slideshow as appropriate. Please be sure to include the various copyright acknowledgements found at the end of the liturgy.

March 21. 2021 – Worship 4 page bulletin – Word
March 21, 2021 – Worship non-bulletin format – Word
March 21, 2021 – Sermon Lent 5 – Word
March 21, 2021 – Sermon Lent 5 – pdf
March 21, 2021 – Time with children – Word
March 21, 2021 – Time with children – pdf
March 21, 2021 Worship Slides – PowerPoint

Prayer Cycles

Living Skies Regional Council 2025 Prayer Cycle
Living Skies Regional Council 2024 Prayer Cycle
Living Skies Regional Council 2023 Prayer Cycle
Living Skies Regional Council 2022 Prayer Cycle
Living Skies Regional Council 2021 Prayer Cycle
Living Skies Regional Council 2020 Prayer Cycle
Archived: 2019 Prayer cycle; 2017-18; 2016-17

Ecumenical prayer cycle, the World Council of Churches

COLLECTIONS & SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES

As recommended by Living Skies colleagues in ministry:

United Church of Canada collection (organized by theme and highlighted Seasons)

Minute for Mission collection and related Full stewardship/ Mission and Service worship resources

Gathering magazine for worship and music leaders

Practical Resources for Churches (www.prcli.org): library of recorded webinars, workshops & resources for Creative Worship, Faith Study, Spiritual Practice, Mission & Social Justice, Growth & Renewal, Music Ministry, Children & Family, Youth & Young Adult, etc.

Clergy Stuff

Prayer Bench

Singing from the Lectionary

The Text This Week

Together We Worship

United in Worship

Working Preacher

Worship Ways (from our full communion partner, the United Church of Christ in the US)

Streaming & Online-Worship Resources

Online Worship Software & Resources (pdf): recommendations provided by some of Living Skies’ tech gurus as part of their Practically Prophetic Webinar (April 2021)
https://livingskiesrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Online-Worship-software-and-resources-april-26-2021.docx.pdf

Living Skies YouTube Channel: Includes How-To Videos for live-streaming and links to Community of Faith YouTube Channels
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQumvdyab1_LlPIluOPgArg/featured?view_as=subscriber

Facebook Group – Canadian Churches that Live-stream: This group is coordinated by a UCC techie to provide a venue for discussion, questions, and suggestions for Canadian communities of faith who are live-streaming their worship services and special events (or want to!)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/676613006560597

Hosting Zoom Online Meetings & Worship
ZoomZoomZoom-the basics (pdf)
Super Easy Guide to Zoom by Amy Lenzo (pdf)