Worship Planning Resources

Music that Makes Community is excited to share webinars and planning guides that help you incorporate paperless music into your community's worship life. Resources include teaching notes, as well as links to musical scores and videos. After you submit payment, you'll receive a confirmation email with links to digital material.

Advent Worship Planning Webinar (September 2023)
Suggested donation $50.00 (sliding scale rates available)

Paul Vasile led an 2.5 hour hybrid workshop focused on Advent and Christmas (Year B) from Hope Lutheran Church, Bozeman, MT inviting participants to CENTER in song and prayer; READ sacred text with an ear for how it speaks in our contexts; SING diverse seasonal music from varied traditions and cultures, focusing mostly on paperless music while including a range of congregational song repertoires; and COLLABORATE with others to imagine context-specific liturgy for our communities;

In addition to a recording of the webinar, you'll receive links to:

a list of songs from the webinar and suggestions of how to share them in your context
curated resources and tools for online singing and collaboration
Lectionary-based song suggestions for each Sunday of Advent

Community-Rooted Lenten Planning Workshop (January 2022)
Suggested donation $50.00 (sliding scale rates available)

Paul Vasile and The Rev. Ashley Goff broadcast live from Arlington Presbyterian Church, sharing Lenten songs and liturgical practices inspired by the transformative ministry of Arlington Presbyterian Church, which sold its building and land to the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH) to build Gilliam Place, a 173-unit affordable housing apartment community on the site of their previous building. They explored how the season of Lent invites deeper listening to the stories and experiences within our community and invited conversation around the unique challenges we may be facing in this late pandemic time.

You'll receive a link to a recording (which you can share with your planning team or worship committee), as well a list of songs and resources shared during the webinar.

Holy Week Test Kitchen (February 2021)
Suggested donation $50.00
(indicate Test Kitchen in the "Additional Info" line of the donation form)

We offered a webinar including songs and liturgical ideas drawn from our creative community of MMC leaders, including Jorge Lockward (Church of the Village in NYC), Miranda Hassett (St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Madison, WI), and Christian Scharen (St. Lydia's Dinner Church in Brooklyn). They offered thoughtful insights for Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, and the Easter Vigil and we experienced music for the season, as well as ideas for integrating participatory singing and liturgy this extraordinary week of the liturgical year.

Suggested donation for the webinar is $50. You'll receive a link to a recording (which you can share with your planning team or worship committee), as well a list of songs and resources shared during the webinar.