Resources

Sharing resources for the whole church

Leadership
Pastors, preachers, musicians, worship committees, altar guilds, and synod workers will find ideas useful in planning worship, continuing education opportunities, and more catered to their specialty.

Language Resources
The ELCA is committed to providing worship resources in languages other than English. Currently, we have resources available in Spanish and Chinese.

Media Art
Resources to use multimedia technology in worship, including helpful books, software, video and image sources, and copyright information.

Worship Resources

   Prayer & Worship resources for Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion - April 2013
   Prayer & Worship resources for Boston Marathon Bombing - April 2013
        Worship in Times of Public Health Concerns

Stand for Welcome Sunday. Click here for PDF

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Worship Resources for Disaster Response:
Church Building Fires 2013

Hurricane Sandy - October 2012

Six Laments

Spring Storms 2011

Earthquake and Tsunami - Japan March 2011

Spring Storms and Ecological Disaster Spring 2010

Earthquake - especially Haiti January 12, 2010

Times of Economic Uncertainty

Natural Disaster

Hurricane

Violence

Wildfire

Ministry Rites
Ordination, Installations, Commissionings, Consecrations
Synods in the ELCA oversee ordinations, consecrations, commissionings, and installations of rostered leaders and often host large assemblies in worship. Find electronic versions of the approved ministry rites along with advice and resources for planning large worship services.

Worship Books, Hymnals and Songbooks
Exlpore the ELCA's newest worship resource, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, along with This Far by Faith, With One Voice, Worship and Praise Songbook, and Spanish and Chinese language resources.

Daily Prayer
“Exploring Evangelical Lutheran Worship: Shaping Daily Prayer and Responsive Prayer for a Variety of Settings” is a resource that includes helpful advice about how to use and adapt Evangelical Lutheran Worship’s orders for Morning, Evening, and Night prayer as well as the order for Responsive Prayer for meetings, retreats, personal devotion, assembly worship, and more. Download the pdf

Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
The ministry of publishing for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Augsburg Fortress, Publishers is the place to look for printed and electronic resources for worship, to order worship supplies, and to get copyright permission for the liturgies and music whose copyrights are administered by Augsburg Fortress, Publishers.

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