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  • Based on the theology of Creative Interchange, this training is for teams who have the honor of co-creating meaning while shaping the worship experience of the congregation.
    Training | By Erika Hewitt | September 13, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • Help people live lives of purpose and meaning by providing worship experiences that grapple with the big questions.
    Video | By Sarah Movius Schurr, Pacific Western Region of the UUA | March 17, 2023 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips, Small Congregations
  • Are you already livestreaming and want to do more to integrate the online and in person participation? Here are some practical tips!
    Book | By George Carvill, Evin Carvill Ziemer, Renee Ruchotzke | November 17, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • Rev. Jim Keat gives his Top 10 Tips for Hybrid Worship. As the Digital Minister of Riverside Church he has important wisdom to share for our new world. Most ministers and lay leaders are not trained in simultaneous in person and online presentation, but doing this well is vital for full inclusion.
    Book | November 16, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips
  • Introduction and Overview of Camera Options video text Audio video text OBS video text Camera Mounting and Placement video text Lighting video text If You Need Help video text...
    By Warren Brown, Renee Ruchotzke | October 29, 2021 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips, Disability & Accessibility
  • When designing an online memorial service there are some worshipful elements that can enhance the experience.
    By Renee Ruchotzke | April 8, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Rites of Passage, Worship Tips
  • When physical presence is not possible, we can still do our best to create time and space to gather in virtual space until such time that a physical gathering is possible.
    Book | By Renee Ruchotzke | April 3, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Pastoral Care, Rites of Passage, Worship Tips
  • Many Unitarian Universalist congregations and communities are choosing to livestream their worship services during the pandemic so that members can connect to their faith community at a familiar time. Creating online worship—whether it's live or recorded—involves a series of learning curves,...
    Webinar | By Erika Hewitt | March 18, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Worship Tips
  • A quality Sunday morning experience online does not need to be complicated or highly technical. Especially helpful for smaller congregations.
    March 13, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Worship Tips, Trauma and Disaster Response, Small Congregations
  • Church of the Larger Fellowship past and present Learning Fellows share their top learnings about worship, connecting and doing church online.
    Leader Resource | By Church of the Larger Fellowship, Boston, MA | March 13, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Worship Tips
  • Learn what congregations and other groups are doing to maintain real connection virtually in times such as these. Guests include the Revs Mykal Slack, Jessica Star Rockers and Suzanne Fast.
    Webinar | By Church of the Larger Fellowship, Boston, MA | March 12, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Worship Tips
  • Many congregations record or stream their in-person services so that people can participate even if they can't be there in person. Some use low tech video with one person in front of the camera in order to record and/or stream the sermon and similar Sunday service elements.​ Others have cameras...
    Leader Resource | By Renee Ruchotzke | March 10, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Crisis Planning in Congregations, Worship Tips
  • Overview of the Context and Premises for this Training Model West Shore’s worship associates team was established in 2001. Most years the team had as many as six people, serving overlapping two-year terms. People had to apply for the program, and understood they could only serve two years. The...
    By Wayne B. Arnason, Kathleen Rolenz, West Shore UU Church, Rocky River, OH | September 3, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips, Worship
  • Making the decision to add an additional worship service, or even considering such a thing, is a major undertaking in congregational life. As institutions (and even as members of institutions), we don’t always embrace even the smallest changes easily, and alterations in our worship...
    Book | March 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • Adding services can provide a wonderful, invigorating climate for growth of all sorts, both individual and institutional. But large-scale change without adequate planning not only may doom the change but also may create additional problems. Therefore, ...
    Leader Resource | March 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • Some useful points to consider and remember as the congregation faces the addition of a service and the consequent growth.
    March 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • Adding a worship service inevitably means more work for the congregation’s staff, both professional and support. The leaders of worship and religious education must not only repeat the service, create a separate special focus, and oversee another religious education program but also do more...
    Leader Resource | March 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Staffing & Supervision, Worship Tips, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • One of the key challenges in adding an additional service is providing religious education for children. What is needed, what will be offered, and how it will be done are large questions that need and deserve special consideration. The process of determining the answer to these questions runs...
    Leader Resource | March 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Worship Tips, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • A congregation might choose to add an additional worship service for many different reasons: Some are from the needs of the congregation, and and others are driven by needs of individuals not yet within the congregational walls.
    March 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips, Membership Growth & Outreach
  • Three sample surveys that can be modified easily for your specific situation.
    Leader Resource | March 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship Tips, Membership Growth & Outreach