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These prayer requests are provided as many voices are calling for the church to be a significant partner in the complex readjustment process of returning home for military veterans.

To promote cross-cultural healing, prayer, and community unity among and beyond three participating churches by teaching the practice and history of drum circles as worship.

To embody a connection between Christian liturgy and ethical living by implementing a hospitable, ecumenical, multicultural, and bilingual worship gathering for students, staff, and faculty that emphasizes the well-being of the planet and the healing of broken relationships, especially those with Indigenous peoples.

To facilitate a multicultural ministry of reconciliation in worship and life together by engaging Native American history through storytelling and theological reflection that promotes understanding, healing, justice and reconciliation.

An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by John Swinton and Isaac Wardell

To minister to survivors of sexual abuse through an arts-based storytelling project and worship services designed to honor pain and foster healing and through training for church leaders in trauma-informed care. 

Joseph Nyamutera is the founder and director of Rabagirana Ministries in Kigali, Rwanda. After a Bth in Theology at Negst, Nairobi, and a Masters in Organizational Leadership in Africa International University Nairobi, he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Divinity by Logos University in Florida. Today, Rev. Nyamutera leads the global network of Healing Heart, Transforming Nations and also serves as an Advisor with World Evangelical Alliance (Peace and Reconciliation Network).

Many of these resources, initially created for an immediate response to specific events, may be adapted or may help provide ideas for similar resources for other natural disasters or for services remembering these events.

A visual symbol that can be placed on the cover of service bulletins, within the written liturgy, or on a large screen display.

These case studies of worship in other times and places work well in personal devotions, small groups and classrooms.