Call to Worship News

Dear PAM Subscribers to Call to Worship:

As a PAM member you have access to the official PAM journal, Call to Worship as a resource. Call to Worship, is available as a printed version and an online version.

If you are a current PAM member and we DO NOT have your email address already, please email pam@pcusa.org and note that you want the web link to the Call to Worship Lectionary Aids. We will then verify your PAM Membrship and make sure that your email address is added to you account.

Please note that because the link to the Lectionary Aids is only for current PAM members and Call to Worship subscribers, we can not post the link to the download pages.

Please take a few moments to read the letter below from the editor of Call to Worship.

Sincerely,
William McConnell
Executive Director
Presbyterian Association of Musicians
100 Witherspoon St
Louisville, KY 40202
888-728-7228 x5759
william.mcconnell@pcusa.org
website: www.PresbyMusic.org

 

Dear Call to Worship subscribers,

Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts moved into the electronic age in the summer of 2009, with the online-only publication of the Lectionary Aids. In 2010, it became available in both print and onilne version.

We’re excited about this transition for a number of reasons. First, we believe that the electronic publication of the Lectionary Aids will allow us to greatly expand and enhance the liturgical resources we already provide. The flexibility of Web-based publication means that we can make multiple options available for each Sunday and Festival (including archived editions of Lectionary Aids from previous years), we can explore new patterns and practices of worship (such as seasonal calls to worship, prayers of confession, prayers of illumination, and eucharistic prayers), and we can offer fresh approaches to liturgical leadership (such as declarations of forgiveness and invitations to discipleship and prayers from the font and table).

Second, the shift to an electronic medium will facilitate ease of use—allowing pastors, musicians, and other liturgical leaders to plan and prepare for worship anytime, anywhere. The digital format also means that it will be easy to cut and paste texts and images into worship bulletins or projection files. This is a change that many of our subscribers have requested, and we are pleased to make this possible!

Third, the electronic distribution of the Lectionary Aids will make it possible for us to respond promptly to new and emerging ideas in worship, music, preaching, and the arts. This change will also allow new subscribers to receive access to the Lectionary Aids much more quickly than in the past.


We are grateful, as always, for your continuing support of Call to Worship! Blessings in your ministry.

Grace and peace,
David Gambrell, Office of Theology and Worship david.gambrell@pcusa.org