Many thanks to NALC pastor Cathy Ammlung for this second in a series of videos intended to provide congregations – especially those with temporary and/or longer-term pastoral vacancies – with some tools for worship planning. A link to Cathy’s video can be found HERE. A link to our You Tube channel, which contains sixty-one reviews of books and videos on topics of interest and importance, can be found HERE.
In this video, Cathy discusses the church year and festivals. She looks at the rhythm and logic of the secular year, as broken unofficially into various seasons and as punctuated by special holidays, as a way to think about the church year cycle. She gives some suggestions for how the church year can help you plan a season of worship as well as some simple examples of using the season or day of the church year in your congregation’s life. Next session will focus on understanding and using the lectionary as you do your worship planning.
