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Learning Guide

Starting a Service

Search for words to open your service using the general Index of First Lines or by browsing the following subgroups:

• Calls to Worship
• Chalice Lighting Words
• Invocations
• Opening Words

Sample Beginnings

There are a variety of ways to begin a service. Consider the following outlines:

First Order of Service - See example

Prelude
Welcome and Announcements
Opening Hymn

• Chalice Lighting
  Affirmation
       See the rest of this Order of Service

Second Order of Service - See example

Prelude

• Opening Words
  Hymn
  
• Invocation
       See the rest of this Order of Service

Third Order of Service - See example

Prelude

• Opening Words
  Acknowledgment of Limitations
  
• Call to Worship
  Hymn
  
• Chalice Lighting
       See the rest of this Order of Service

Fourth Order of Service - See example

Prelude

• Call to Worship
  Hymn
  
• Chalice Lighting
  Children's Story
  Song and Dismissal
       See the rest of this Order of Service

Fifth Order of Service - See example

Welcome and Announcements
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
Prelude
Statement of the Theme
Hymn
     See the rest of this Order of Service

Sixth Order of Service - See example

Prelude
Hymn

• Opening Words
  
• Invocation
  Affirmation of Faith
  Doxology
  Anthem
       See the rest of this Order of Service

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