Worship Committee | July 30, 2024
During the month of June, the Worship Committee asked worshippers to share what they value in their worship experiences and preferences. You responded to writing prompts as follows:
- June 2: What helps you worship?
- June 16: In your worship experience today, what helped you worship?
- June 30: What do you look forward to when you come to worship? What do you take with you?
Each week, approximately 50 responses were received. The responses were tallied according to broad topics such as music, sermon and reflection. The largest number of responses were related to:
- Music: all kinds of music! Choral, congregational, organ, piano, guitar, old hymns, newer songs.
- Reflection: time away from the noise of life – to reflect, feel close to God, listen, renew, be calm.
- Community: appreciation for fellowship, connection, interaction with others.
- Sermon: proclamation of the good news, lessons.
- Scripture, Prayer, Testimonies, and Stories: Praising God and feeling close to God through worship and experience of others.
There were many more items with a few mentions such as welcoming of all, communion, variety of worship leaders and mix of worship elements, energy and hope, visual worship items and justice and mission projects. It seems that most services have something for everyone.
The Worship Committee is grateful for the participation in this writing process and the responses are helpful in planning future worship experiences.
Christi Gabbard, Chair
Ann Armstrong
Daniel Clausen
Dennis Johnson
Jane Tatum
Comments
As a Baptist church affirming the liberty of conscience, we recognize each individual's right to his or her own opinion and welcome your comments, positive or negative. We strive for communication that invites a respectful and personal exchange of opinions and thoughts. This is often not possible through running dialogues in our comment section. To respect the dignity of all persons, we may delete comments that contain profanity, hate speech, or threatening language.
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