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Worship Renewal Grant Recipients—Region East Canada

You can view posters displayed at Colloquium for grant recipients from the years 2003-2008. Click on the organization's name for an image of the poster. (You may need to zoom in to read the text on the poster.)

The following is a combined list of churches and organizations that received Worship Renewal Grants during the years 2000 - 2008. Sort the following list by State/Province

All Nations Christian Reformed Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia To develop a set of liturgies for the seasons of Lent and Eastertide, use them in worship, study them with a range of fellow congregants, and prepare them for dissemination to a broader audience.

All Nations Christian Reformed Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia To train lay leaders in understanding and communicating Scripture through workshops in several churches, so that Scripture might be integrated into worship in meaningful ways.

All Nations Christian Reformed Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia To develop and publish a worship resource manual for intergenerational worship services that more fully integrate youth into the worship life of congregations.

All Saints Anglican Church, Huntsville, Ontario To establish a series of workshops and discussions on the language of liturgy, and to encourage creativity in congregational song, movement and visual art.

Celestial Church of Christ Emmanuel Parish, Toronto, Ontario To train youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds to lead worship and to strengthen unity in the congregation by encouraging and studying intergenerational worship.

Centennial Park Baptist Church, Grimsby, Ontario To enhance the accessibility of the preaching of the word to worshipers of all ages through the use of drama, visual arts, music, and puppets and to design a children’s bulletin that encourages active listening.

First Christian Reformed Church, Hamilton, Ontario To create a sense of narrative, memory, and time by focusing on the practices of lectio divina, prayer, study, and service through a series of workshops and collaborative projects on using word and image in worship.

Grace United Church, Sarnia, Ontario To create litanies, choral readings, and scripture dramas to facilitate the dramatic nature of worship through the collaboration of lay theologians and artists of all ages within the congregation.

Grace United Church, Sarnia, Ontario To bring together artists and theologians to create pieces of art that illustrate and communicate the connection between the arts and theology, and to offer times of reflection and discussion, seminars and a Festival of the Arts.

Immanuel Christian Reformed Church, Brampton, Ontario To offer leadership training for Immanuel and neighboring churches that will include workshops, resources, and worship planning and evaluation experiences for musicians, readers, worship teams, worship planners and dramatists.

Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, St. Catharines, Ontario To sponsor a two-day conference on worship and the arts.

Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, St. Catharines, Ontario To sponsor an arts conference to broaden the experience of the arts in worship in southern Ontario churches by actively involving conference participants in the process of developing the arts for worship.

Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, St. Catharines, Ontario To engage the congregation in a process that will deepen understanding of the seasons of the Liturgical Church Calendar through sermons, teaching and the creation of visual arts.

Knox Presbyterian Church, Mitchell, Ontario To teach skills in sermon preparation and delivery to 15 lay preachers from rural/small town congregations in southwestern Ontario. They will come together for times of study, sermon preparation, and individual mentoring.

Knox Presbyterian Church, Mitchell, Ontario A liturgy training program for lay people in six rural/small town Presbyterian congregations in southwestern Ontario.

Presbyterian College, Montreal, Quebec To equip lay people of rural and small town settings to preach, plan and lead worship services, and to develop coaches/mentors for further support.

Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario To develop a process for worship renewal by linking worship, education, and the mission of the college.

Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario To strengthen campus worship leadership through leadership retreats, a regional conference that joins theoretical study with practice, training events, a worship-song composition workshop and the creation of worship visuals.

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