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To train 20 worship leaders and other interested congregants through Bible studies and workshops focused especially on the Psalms and Vertical Habits, Christ-centered hospitality, Scripture reading, visual arts, creative and relevant music and collaborative planning and evaluation that will be contextualized to form participatory and communal worship services in one of the most impoverished districts in Canada.   

To offer workshops and a focus on the Psalms that will create worship habits infused with multicultural voices expressed in music, storytelling, dance, drama and preaching in a growing and increasingly diverse congregation.

To facilitate multi-generational and multi-cultural education in worship arts with an emphasis on the Psalms that will incorporate unique cultural contributions of people in the congregation from many nations.

To teach Vertical Habits through a series of seven worship services that will include creative elements focused on Scripture and a person in history who cultivated a specific Vertical Habit.  The series will include take home materials that will help both adults and children practice the habit throughout the week.    

To encourage continuity of worship practices in daily life by studying with local pastors, educating and training congregational leaders in Adult Sunday School, presenting a monthly drama that focuses on particular practices to encourage the development of that habit in personal life, and designing and displaying monthly banners to reinforce each practice.

To develop teaching materials on contemporary musical settings of the Psalms, with an emphasis on music from Africa and Latin America, and to make these available to the wider church community.

To encourage a deep and ongoing engagement with scripture by singing, teaching, and praying the psalms of ascent as an intergenerational community.

To promote healing through trauma-informed worship that engages worshipers with the Psalms as expressions of the experiences of God’s people. 

To incorporate people of all ages and skills in planning and implementing a series on developing worship habits in daily life with particular attention to visual arts, children’s messages, family activities, and sign language to communicate these ideas through kinetic involvement.

To create liturgy, music and dance that will convey the message of God’s radical hospitality in the Gospel and the Eucharist through a weekend parish retreat and a year-long study of the Psalms that engages the various cultures and ages of those who worship in this increasingly diverse parish.