Making the shift from one season to another; from Sunday to home life
In the context of worship, the day offered ideas, suggestions and experiences around the coming season of Advent.

(In the image Elizabeth Mathers prepares worship space at the October 30th event)




Here’s what the participants said: (taken from the Evaluation Forms)

· -appreciated learning about a liturgical season and its meaning
· -loved the workshops - want more and longer!
· -like the integrated worship - and the colour
· -really appreciated the Evanglelical Lutheran Worship book resource Workshop
· -I suggest we keep this format
· -Want more! Like the idea of a focus on liturgical seasons

· Excellent energy
· Fresh ideas, fresh expressions
· New ideas and music for worship
· The lectures are organized and practical

RAWWG asked the participants:

What was your single greatest learning today?

· That there are reasons for what we do in every season and that it is important to me to try to learn more about how worship happens or can happen..
· How to make praise and worship more meaningful and how we can bring it into our daily lives
· The freedom to adapt resources for our use in our own services
· Learned about understanding the Collects
· Learned about the Revised Common Lectionary prayers

· Ideas on color light and space

· Lots of good music ideas
· Lots of good music ideas
· Developing Prayers
· Also that “chanting is for everybody” – that’s great! Lots of good music ideas.

· I learned more about the Evangelical Lutheran Worship book as a resource for prayers and music, psalms and chanting

Workshop Topics
Collects & Liturgical Prayers for Advent
Why are the Three Kings on the stairs?
Celebrating Advent in the home:

Tired of “There’s a Voice in the Wilderness”? exploring Music for Advent:

Come and Journey with the Saviour - A Seven-Week Advent

Beyond “Lord hear our prayer”- Leading the Prayers of the People

Singing the Blues - Use of colour/space/imagery

A Gift from Wittenberg: exploring the Evangelical Lutheran Worship for Anglicans.
  
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 Renewing Anglican Worship Working Group (RAWWG)
Conducts a
Church Depot Day
November 21, 2009

 

 

Diocesan-wide consultations showed that there is a thirst in this diocese for renewing Anglican worship. Renewing Anglican Worship was named as one of the priorities in the Diocesan Strategic Plan - Plan 2018. In March 2009 a new diocesan group called Renewing Anglican Worship Working Group ( RAWWG for short) was formed to help the diocese respond to this priority.


A Church Depot Day
The group conducted a Church Depot Day on Nov 21, 2009 called Renewing Anglican Worship: ‘Building vital and faithful worship’ The Church Depot program has been discontinued, in fact the RAWWG Day was the final workshop day in the programs 8 year history. We look forward to being part of Road to 2018 - Working together to strengthen the mission of the church the new diocesan program.

The day started with the presentation of four worship stories from around this diocese. These accounts revealed the diversity of worship practices that already exist in our local area. This opened the way to an exploration of what makes us identifiably Anglican, yet at the same time, invites a variety of expressions.
Over lunch the participants shared stories about their own meaningful worship experiences and discussed what had made them so meaningful.

In the afternoon particpants experienced singing the Pslams in a variety of ways and engaged in movement during worship.

Commitment to Listening:
Before concluding with Eucharist the participants were invited to share with RAWWG some of their dreams and hopes about the renewing of Anglican Worship .
The suggestions received will form the basis of future workshops and projects.

What the participants said:


What a great experience! So different from what I expected it to be. I went expecting a couple of possibly-useful, likely-rather-boring lectures, but it was nothing of the kind! We *experienced* worship together, and I came away bursting with new ideas! Sarah Pridy, St. Stephen the Martyr, Burnaby




For me the Church Depot day on Renewing Anglican Worship was exciting and affirming! Exciting to see that other churches are also working toward worship that is understandable and meaningful to all and affirming to us at St. Dunstan’s that we are indeed moving in the right direction.
Carol Tindall