Special Living Liturgy Event Sponsored by Holden Village
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June 4-8, 2012
Worship and a Way of Life
a week at Holden Village led by
The Living Liturgy Team and friends
Worship and a Way of Life, June 4-8, 2012, is an opportunity for Lutheran worship leaders and others to experience, explore, and reflect on ways to help their communities pray with power, integrity, and meaning. Led by the Living Liturgy teaching team, this conference seeks to recover, renew, and enliven the worship of the church, while strengthening the connections between the life of the worshipping community and our life of faith in the world. The week will take its shape from the four-fold pattern of the liturgy: Gathering, Word, Meal, Sending, and will include bible study, sessions on worship planning, liturgical theology, building leadership skills for musicians, and forming lay leaders.
Together we will explore how to reclaim and maintain the powerful and deep connection of scripture with the life of the worshipping community, and especially how those connections are expressed and nurtured within the life of worship.
Various full-group and small-group sessions will explore:
- Roots and current state of Christian worship
- In-depth look at the Eucharistic liturgy -- moving from Gathering to Word to Meal to Sending
- "Leading the Congregation’s Song" sessions for introducing and leading a variety of musical styles, including songs and chants from the world church
- Worship planning and resource sharing
- Reading sessions of new music appropriate for worship
- Creative use of sung responses in community prayer
- The role of the choir and musical ensemble as supporters of the congregation’s song
- The role of preaching/proclamation at the Eucharist
- Baptism as a process of welcome and renewal
- Inviting and training Lectors
- The role of lay worship leaders
- Deepening our connections to seasons of the liturgical year
- Holy Communion amid creation, at home, and with those who hunger
- Dust to Dust: Green funerals and a way of dying
- The sacred conversation in liturgy
The week will include an abundance of singing throughout, plus a special evening sing-along concert with Marty Haugen, Mary Preus and Tom Witt.
Teaching Staff for the Week
The Living Liturgy team brings a wealth of experience from years of planning and leading worship, teaching in seminaries, and leading workshops for clergy, parish musicians, and other worship leaders. The team includes:
Susan Briehl, pastor and Valparaiso Project associate; former Holden director.
Ben Stewart, Professor of Liturgy at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, former Holden Village pastor.
Marty Haugen, musician and composer, former Holden musician in residence.
Mary Preus, church musician and song leader.
Tom Witt, church musician, former Holden musician in residence.
They’ll be joined by Julia Fogg, Professor of New Testament, California Lutheran University, Brian Johnson, Executive Director of Campus Ministries at Valparaiso University, and Scott Kershner, Village pastor, and the Holden Village Community.
The week is open to anyone who registers to come to Holden Village this week, but will be especially helpful for all those involved in leading worship: pastors, presiders and assisting ministers, music directors, organists, choir directors and members, those who play in worship bands and ministers of the word. For costs and registration information, see: http://www.holdenvillage.org/reservations/
Worship and a Way of Life is a special week of programming at Holden Village sponsored in cooperation with The Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith (www.practicingourfaith.org).