Worship Planning Resources – Unwrapping the Gifts

LCMS Worship: Suggestions for 2021 midweek Lenten services

LCMS Worship provides suggestions for liturgy, psalms, readings, hymns and collects to use during 2021 midweek Lenten services.

Video: How to do family devotions

Pastor Sean Daenzer, director of Worship for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and chaplain for the LCMS International Center, shares how to do family devotions at home.

Collects for the Present Pandemic

In the rapidly changing circumstances of this global pandemic, pastors will know best how to adjust, compose and extemporize prayers for the needs of services, broadcasts and other occasions.

Prayers to use during the pandemic — Palm Sunday and Holy Week

LCMS Worship provides updated prayers of the church for Series A and One-Year Series that congregations may use on Palm Sunday and during Holy Week.

LCMS Worship: Suggestions for 2019 midweek Lenten services

LCMS Worship provides suggestions for liturgy, psalms, readings, hymns and collects to use during 2019 midweek Lenten services.

A Brief Advent Devotion for the Family Table

LCMS Worship suggests the following Advent devotions for use at home. Family members may take turns reading the prophecy for each day from Dec. 3 to Christmas Eve.

Kids in the Divine Service: General Information

Kids in the Divine Service is a series of bulletin inserts that complement the Lutheran Service Book. The final installment includes general information about 18 topics, including saints, rites, rubrics, stewards, acolytes and catechism.

Audio: Reproaches from Good Friday liturgy in Lutheran Service Book

LCMS Worship provides an opportunity for pastors to learn to chant in the Reproaches from the Good Friday liturgy in Lutheran Service Book: Altar Book.

Kids in the Divine Service: The Liturgy

LCMS Worship offers Kids in the Divine Service bulletin inserts for the Liturgy that complement the Lutheran Service Book.

2017-18 LCMS Church Year Calendars: Series B and One-Year Series

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Worship Ministry provides the Bible readings for the 2017-18 Series B and One-Year Series church year calendars.

Kids in the Divine Service: The Sanctuary

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod offers Kids in the Divine Service bulletin inserts for the Sanctuary for the Lutheran Service Book.

Kids in the Divine Service: Pentecost

LCMS Worship offers Kids in the Divine Service bulletin inserts for Pentecost for the Lutheran Service Book. The series features the liturgy, sanctuary and information about the Divine Service.

Kids in the Divine Service: Lent and Easter

LCMS Worship offers Kids in the Divine Service bulletin inserts for Lent and Easter for the Lutheran Service Book.

Church Year Calendar Spreadsheet

Rev. Kurtis Bueltmann, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Monticello, Ill., created a color-coded spreadsheet to look ahead to the church year of any given year at a glance.

Kids in the Divine Service: Epiphany

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod offers Kids in the Divine Service bulletin inserts for Epiphany for the Lutheran Service Book.

Psalm tones from Lutheran Service Book

LCMS Worship is pleased to provide these tones from Lutheran Service Book, courtesy of Rev. Sean Daenzer. May they be of help in your worship planning.