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Worship Any Time or Place: The Compact Book of Methodist Liturgies, Prayers, and Other Acts of Blessing.

By Nelson Robert Cowan

Soft cover 208pp.
ISBN 9781791029838.
Abingdon Press (2024).

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This book equips ministers, worship leaders and lay people to create meaningful worship moments for any group of people, at any time and in any place. It includes liturgies and prayers suitable for traditional settings such as worship services, funeral services, and administration of the sacraments. 

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This book equips ministers, worship leaders and lay people to create meaningful worship moments for any group of people, at any time and in any place.

It includes liturgies and prayers suitable for traditional settings such as worship services, funeral services, and administration of the sacraments.

There are words to use during hospital visits, retreats, church meetings, and other conventional settings.

It provides words of blessing for departing members.

It also provides language for other spaces and places, like home blessings, blessings for foster care families, words for times of transition, liturgies for fresh expressions of the church, prayers before the beginning of work, language for protests and vigils, ritual moments for difficult conversations, and prayers for interreligious and ecumenical events.

And there are words of lament to use after violent events and natural disasters.

From pulpits to pews, from altar tables to dinner tables, from sanctuaries to streets, the Compact Guide can be used by all ministers – ordained and lay – to employ worshipful words as the Spirit leads.