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Come to the Table: Worship Planning Retreat
Planning Ahead for Worship in 2023-2024 with Dr. Marcia McFee – Free to You
The Presbytery of Los Ranchos is pleased to offer you the chance to participate in Dr. Marcia McFee’s 2023-2024 livestream worship planning retreat at no cost to you on August 13-16, 2023 (recordings also available in perpetuity afterward). Our participation gives you access to the entire event for free! This is a multi-day continuing education experience that will focus on planning ahead for the liturgical year to come. The last few years have pushed us all to become more “rhythm flexible” through offering online and hybrid worship, and at the same time we recognize that weekly worship is an important source of spiritual nourishment and community connection for many people in the communities you serve.
Dr. Marcia McFee will help you explore emerging themes to engage with in worship, guiding you to develop concrete plans for each season of the liturgical year. Dr. McFee’s teaching sessions draw on historical and thematic notes from traditional scripture lectionaries as well as non-lectionary sources. Engage with all the worship arts – music, media, visuals, verbal arts, and dramatic arts – to bring your messages alive in meaningful and memorable worship.
Your participation in this retreat will also give you access to the Worship Design Studio website, Dr. McFee’s online community of 8,000+ pastors, worship staff, and volunteers who put her design principles into practice and bring creativity and inspiration into their own communities.
All you need to do is register (at no charge). You can invite unlimited members of your worship team (or potential worship team members) to sign up through our registration link as well. We encourage you to take advantage of this free offer (usually $150 per church) made possible through our presbytery’s participation.
