Worship & Spiritual Growth Leaders

by Bethany Marsh

With Christmas around the corner and the new liturgical year now begun (Year C), we have been busy updating the Worship Planning Page with service resources for your congregation.

With some major celebrations such as Commemoration of Reformation and All Saints just around the corner, the Worship Planning Page has prepared full suites of worship resources for your congregation to use.

Students from Queensland, Tasmania, Adelaide and Vietnam attended Australian Lutheran College’s (ALC) recent ‘Christian Liturgy and Church Rites’ intensive (a Greek intensive was held earlier this year), which was hosted by St Petri congregation in the Barossa Valley from 19 to 24 August.

The Commission on Worship, in collaboration with Lutheran Earth Care Australia and New Zealand, has made available Season of Creation worship resources for 2024. Congregations are encouraged to begin this season of prayer and action for the environment with a service on 1 September.

The LCANZ’s Commission on Worship maintains a list of congregations and parishes that offer live-streamed worship services.

A Congregational Life website designed to support LCANZ congregations and agencies in areas including worship, pastoral care, discipleship and faith teaching, outreach and church planting, and community service is being developed by the church.