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Planning Ahead

One of the most valuable practices for planning worship is simply to plan ahead. "In our ministries we have always discovered great benefits in planning a worship calendar," write the authors of Designing Worship Together. "Short notice and short-range planning lead to missed opportunities, but those who [plan] ahead are able to give more careful thought to each season of the church year, to collect ideas and information, and to discover more resources." (For the authors' ten benefits of planning ahead, see pages 99 to 103.)

Over the next year, we will be posting monthly planning guides, well in advance of the months they cover, to encourage worship planners to plan ahead. The featured resources of these planning guides are the book Designing Worship Together, and a database of worship service outlines designed by the authors of this book.

Planning Ahead Guides

• January/February
• March/April
• May/June
• July/August
• September
• October
• November
• December

More Planning Ideas and Resources

Reformed Worship
Center for Excellence in Preaching: This Week
Ministry Resource Center
The Text This Week
WorshipHelps weblog
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Worship Planning Ideas
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Worship Planning Basics

The Nuts and Bolts of Worship Planning
Worship Planning Grids
Designing Worship Together
More Worship Planning Resources

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