WELS Christian Worship on YouTube
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Custom-designed software for a unique ministry task
Planning worship and designing worship folders is possible using software designed for accountants and editors, but a far better solution is software custom-designed for the job. Christian Worship: Service Builder combines all the best features of a calendar, a word processor, and a database to unify all the work of planning and preparing worship. Nothing is as fast, convenient, and powerful for planing and producing Lutheran services as Christian Worship: Service Builder.
Comprehensive support manuals for parish ministry
Multiple volumes of training manuals are included in the Christian Worship suite of resources. Volunteers in the congregation who tend to the altar, music, choir, and other related areas will have access to a rich set of documentation on how to cultivate best practices in a local worship ministry.
Unified texts that frame wholesome variety
By combining the strengths of a new, thematic lectionary and a unified concept for liturgical texts, Christian Worship will delight planners with a solid foundation for worship that fully accommodates healthy variety while maintaining a pattern of wholesome repetition that engenders familiarity and memory.
A Service Plan and Worship Folder in About a Minute
See how Christian Worship: Service Builder can save tremendous amounts of time in worship ministry.
Features for Planners
Powerful software
Christian Worship: Service Builder is powerful software designed to meet the unique challenges of planning and preparing liturgical worship.
Increased excellence
Christian Worship: Service Builder puts an entire worship library of carefully curated and expertly designed resources at your fingertips.
Time savings
Christian Worship: Service Builder offers incredible time savings in the weekly work of planning worship and producing service folders.
Redesigned lectionary
The Christian Worship lectionary employs a new numbering system to make navigating the church year more intuitive for everyone.
Useful guides
Three volumes of support manuals give congregations ready access to thorough yet accessible training materials for worship ministry personnel.
Timely suggestions
Christian Worship: Service Builder offers relevant worship suggestions at the best possible time: right when and where you are making worship plans.
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The Foundation
Worship planning materials for each church season are available on the WELS Congregational Services website. Visit The Foundation resources page to download worship planning materials to assist your planning.
Devote Yourself
The Devote Yourself newsletter features articles of encouragement for leading public worship, preaching, and teaching. Subscribe to the Devote Yourself newsletter today for inspiration to be good ministers of Christ Jesus.
For Worshipers
Christian Worship builds on a beloved tradition with familiar continuity and wholesome change — all in service of the gospel in word and sacrament.
For Leaders
Christian Worship fosters unity of praise with carefully curated and expertly designed materials that congregations can use confidently.
For Musicians
Christian Worship offers rich depth of accompaniment and attendant resources so that all of God’s gifts may be used in praise and proclamation.