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Churches can offer a countercultural message about the gifts of older adults and walking with them through the challenges of aging.
Your students or small group can use hymns and Christian songs to design meaningful personalized worship for older adults living in their own homes or in care facilities.
Residents of senior living facilities do not have to be Episcopalian to appreciate regular onsite morning prayer services. Your congregation could offer a similar ministry.
Residents of senior living facilities often are treated as recipients of worship services presented by visiting groups. Nancy Foran offers an alternative design to receive and honor the wisdom of older adults.
A conversation with researcher Ricardo L. Franco on the Latino Protestant Congregations project.
Bethany Hanke Hoang and Kristen Deede Johnson co-wrote The Justice Calling: Where Passion Meets Perseverance. They explain how weekly worship helps congregations keep working with, and waiting on, God to make all things new.
Some churches care deeply about studying the Bible. Others are passionate about justice. Authors Bethany Hanke Hoang and Kristen Deede Johnson offer help for congregations that care or want to care about both.
This choral reading on Revelation 4 is adapted for 1 speaker and 3-4 singers.
This reading on Luke 24:13-35 is for 4 voices.
This readers' theatre on Matthew 18:21-35 is for 3 voices.
This choral reading on Matthew 13:1-23 is adapted for 3 voices, with percussion.
This choral reading on 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 is for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, with spoken solos.
