Prayers for Southern People and Prayers for Southern Seasons: Two eBook set – eBooks.

Prayers for Southern People and
Prayers for Southern Seasons: 

Two eBook set.

By Joy Kingsbury-Aitken

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Prayers for Southern People

Revitalise your worship services with this extensive collection of responsive prayers and liturgies tailored for the Southern Hemisphere, perfect for engaging congregations throughout the liturgical year.

This book will help you to:

• Access new prayers and liturgies that breathe life into your services.
• Enjoy liturgical resources that honour Southern Hemisphere seasons.
• Explore a wide variety of liturgical forms, including intercessions and meditations.
• Foster congregational participation with responsive prayers.
• Easily locate prayers with a detailed Table of Contents and Scripture Index.
• Find enriching materials suitable for individual reflection and prayer.
• Address contemporary social justice issues relevant to today’s church context.

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Prayers for Southern Seasons

Prayers for Southern Seasons is a collection of prayers and poems designed to enhance Christian worship in Aotearoa New Zealand, reflecting the unique rhythms of the church year and inviting congregational participation.

This book:

• Helps worship leaders create services that resonate with the unique seasonal experiences of Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Offers a variety of prayers for different occasions, enhancing the depth of congregational worship.
• Includes many prayers designed for responsive reading, encouraging active participation from the congregation.
• Reflects the local church calendar and seasonal changes, making it relevant and relatable for worshippers.
• Sparks inspiration for worship leaders and congregants alike, enhancing personal and communal spiritual practices.
• Serves as a readily accessible guide for worship leaders needing words for various liturgical moments.
• Includes poems suitable for personal reflection, enriching the spiritual life of individuals outside of corporate worship.

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About the author

Joy brings to her writing a love of literature and of scripture. She holds an honours degree in English from the University of Canterbury, and in 2004 gained a Bachelor of Theology degree from the University of Otago.

Soon after Joy began to be asked to lead worship for her home congregation and then for other congregations, learning how to do so by trial and error and with helpful advice offered by those sitting in the pews. This experience convinced her of the importance of resourcing lay worship leaders for the task they are requested to undertake.

Joy has served on the executive committee of the New Zealand Lay Preachers Association, including in the role of President. She is a member of the Village Presbyterian Church in Christchurch. Joy is now retired after a 31 year career with the Christchurch City Council, in the discipline of road safety education.

She is married to David Aitken, without whose support her lay preaching ministry could not happen.

Her first book Prayers for Southern Seasons was published in 2019. Prayers for Southern People was published in March 2023.