Plan deep, joyful worship for every season of the church year.
For pastors, worship planners, church staff, and the laity who help shape worship, Call & Response 2027-2028 is a planning companion built around the Year C lectionary. It gathers ready-to-use texts and practical guidance for Advent, Lent, Pentecost, and every season and special day of the liturgical year.
Each section supplies:
Full texts of calls to worship, responsive readings, offering invitations, benedictions, and other prayers and liturgies, so leaders can move from planning to worship without starting from a blank page
Prompts and sidebars support sermon development using both lectionary-based and thematic approaches, connecting Scripture to the congregation's life
Explains and illustrates the elements of a service built on the pattern of Gathering, Proclaiming, Thanksgiving, and Sending, including the Call to Worship, Passing of the Peace, Affirmation of Faith, Prayers of the People, the sacraments, and the Benediction
Further suggestions help leaders engage children, youth, and adults together, and open up creative options through dramatization, music, and visual storytelling, along with guidance for pastorally sensitive situations such as trauma, natural disasters, current events, and patriotic observances
Drawing on both ancient and contemporary voices, Call & Response Years C 2027-2028 also gathers prayers, litanies, and liturgies for baptism and holy communion alongside practical instruction on the meaning, history, and logistics of worship. A companion volume, Call & Response for Young People, extends the same approach with a special emphasis on involving children and youth.
