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Words of approach

What words do we use to call people together for worship?

What words do we choose to invite people into worship space and time?

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• Call to Worship resources written for young readers
• Calls to Worship – using the Psalms
• All other Calls to Worship

Call to Worship resources written for young readers

Bringing Our Questions — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Creation Call to Worship Dance — Susan Brecht, USA

God’s table of Love — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Hey God, Wanna Play? — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

How Love Came to Earth — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Praise God! — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Psalm 96, Sing a new song – Ana Gobledale, UK

Call to Worship – Using the Psalms

Lift our eyes, Call to worship — Cara Heafey, UK

Psalm 1 Renewed — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 100, Words of Gathering- Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 105, Call to worship — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 105, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

Psalm 106, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 107 Inspired — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Psalm 107, Call to worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 107, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Psalm 111, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 111, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, UK

Psalm 112, Gathering Words — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 112:1-7 responsively — St Paul School, USA

Psalm 121, Call to Worship — Yuki Kim, UK

Psalm 121, Opening words — Rachel Leach, UK

Psalm 138 Praise — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 138, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 139 Call to Worship — Mark Manterfield

Psalm 147 renewed — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 147, Call to worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 147, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Psalm 148, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 16, Call to Worship – Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 19 Collect — Merryl Blair, Australia

Psalm 23 for worship — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 23, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

Psalm 24, Lift up your heads — John Edgerton, USA

Psalm 25, Call to worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 30, Call to Worship – Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 30, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 32, Call to Worship – Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 40, Gathering words — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 42 prayer – Cara Heafey, UK

Psalm 43, Gathering words — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 50, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Psalm 62, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

Psalm 65 renewed, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Psalm 65, Praise from the heart — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 67, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 68, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 78 Call to Worship — Graeme Blair, Australia

Psalm 81, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Psalm 86, Call to Worship — Duncan Wilson

Psalm 89, Praise from the heart — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 95, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 95, Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 97, Call to worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 98 for worship — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 98 renewed — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 98, Creation’s Harmony — Merryl Blair, Australia

If we seek Wisdom, She will come – Jann Aldridge Clanton

Inspired by Proverbs 3:13-15, 17-18

We come today seeking Wisdom.
If we seek Wisdom,
She will come to us.
Come, Wisdom!

Alphabetical archive of more ‘Call to Worship’ resources . . .

Affirmation — Stephen Best, UK

All one in Christ — United Church of Zambia

An Existential Search, Call to worship — William Stephenson, USA

Be still, words for gathering — Ana Gobledale, UK

Beautiful Diversity, responsive reading — Ben Saunders, USA

Cafe Church, Open Table service – Advent

Call to Journey together — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Call to Worship for Father’s Day – Tod Gobledale, UK

Call to Worship, Advent 4 — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Call to worship, Epiphany 7 — Ana Gobledale

Call to Worship, Responsive — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

Call to Worship, to the mountaintop — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Call to Worship: Open Your Eyes! – Christine Longhurst, Canada

Call to Worship: A Credo for Christians — Jim Burklo, USA

Celebration of Earth, Call to Worship Dance –Susan Brecht, USA

Church Anniversary gathering words

Come and Worship — Thomas Bwalya, Zambia

Come to the mountaintop, Transfiguration Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Come to us in worship, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Come! — Christian Peacemaker Teams, Chicago USA & Toronto, Canada

Created for joy, Collect — Warren Hartley, UK

Creation Call to Worship Dance — Susan Brecht, USA

Distract, prayer — Sam Goodman, UK

Divine Lover — John van de Laar, South Africa

Existential Search, preparing for worship — William Stephenson, USA

Gather, God’s people! — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Gathered in masks, gathered in love — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

Gathering hymn — George Stuart, Australia

Gathering prayer to pause — Ana Gobledale, UK

God of Creation (Genesis 1) — Merryl Blair, Australia

God’s Light, call to worship — Susan Brecht, USA

Hope Litany — Simon Cross, UK

How good to worship together — Sam Goodman, UK

Invitation to God’s dysfunctional & beloved family — Cara Heafey, UK

Invocation: Drum-beat Prayer for Divine Rhythm

Isaiah 12 responsive reading – Duncan Wilson, UK

Isaiah 35, responsive reading — Duncan Wilson, UK

Just as You Are, A Progressive Christian Welcome — Jim Burklo, USA

Lean into Grace, Call to Worship — Cara Heafey, UK

Letting Go and Grabbing Hold — William Stephenson, USA

MLK Day, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Mothering Sunday Call to Worship, Proverbs 3 – Jann Aldridge Clanton

Mwaikala Apashila – Cephas Ng’oma, Zambia

My Soul Awaits, a call to worship — William Stephenson, USA

New Year Call to Worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Now, for this space — Jeanne Lohman, USA

Open to the Creative Heartbeat — Stephen Best, UK

Opening Prayer by G Oberman — adapted by Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Our hope is in you — Simon Cross, UK

Peace call to worship — Susan Pickering, Australia

Praise & Elation, hymn — George Stuart, Australia

Prayer of Approach, Proper 13 — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer of Praise & Confession, Genesis 32, Proper 13A — Ana Gobledale, UK

Preparing For Worship — William Stephenson, USA

Psalm 112, Gathering Words — Ana Gobledale, UK

Responsive Call to Worship for outdoor service — Susan Brecht, USA

Ringing the Singing Bowl — Cairn Christian Church, USA

Ritual of Arrival – Christian Peacemaker Team, Chicago USA & Toronto, Canada

Romans 15:4-13, Call to worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Sabbath Rest — David Long-Higgins, USA

Sanctuary — Eleanor Nash, USA

Spirit, Call to Worship — John van de Laar, South Africa

Spirit, thank you — Ana Gobledale, UK

Thank God for Church — Ana Gobledale, UK

The Touch — Sam Goodman, UK

The Windermere Centre Prayer — Graham Cook, UK

Transfiguration Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Trinity of Love, prayer — Louise Gough, UK

Waiting to be filled – Bill Stephenson, USA

We Are Gathered, hymn — Amanda Udis-Kessler

Welcome God’s kin-dom– Christian Peacemaker Teams, USA & Canada

What is worship?

World Refugee Day Call to Worship – Church World Service, USA