2012 Congregations and Projects:
Keeping Time/Life Passages
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Team Members Jane Arant director of music and team leader
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Liturgical Arts Day Camp: A Model for Nurturing Children in the Experience of the Arts in Worship The hallowing of time is fundamental in the common life of the church. It also provides a wellspring of creativity for the framing of worship and the liturgical arts. For sixteen years, Trinity Presbyterian Church has had a Liturgical Arts Day Camp for elementary-aged children. Activities focus on learning and hands-on experience of the arts that take into account the following four goals: giving attention to some aspect of art in worship; placing this local experience into a larger religious or cultural context; introducing students to working artists; and providing recreation and fellowship.
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First Congregational United Church of Christ
Team Members Cheryl Cornish:pastor and team leader
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A Liturgical Calendar for Sustainable Living Over the past two years, First Congregational Church has used the images of water and earth as a liturgical focus in celebrating “A Season of Creation.” Toxins had been deposited in the groundwater and earth in the impoverished neighborhood near the church. First Congregational has used liturgy and mission to address this concern, developing rituals connecting the life-giving power of creation to outreach programs during the autumn months of 2010 and 2011.
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First United Methodist Church of Evanston
Team Members Dean Francis: senior pastor and team leader
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Embracing Traditions When is it time for a church to expand its musical and liturgical repertoire to meet and reach the increasingly diverse community that surrounds it? Can this work be done so that it marks the sacred time of past traditions, while pointing the church toward a new day? How does the church find a rhythm between the ancient, which grounds us, and the future, which beckons us? How can a church embrace these transitions and use them as a springboard for mission and outreach?
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Trinity Presbyterian Church
Team Members Lenora McCroskey: director of music and team leader
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Sabbath Keeping We live harried lives without taking the time to reflect, let alone to give thanks. We are blind to the humanity of our neighbors and ourselves. We suffer from an idolatry of occupation that confers worth on the basis of work, neglecting the unemployed, the retired, the working poor. We profess with our lips a grace that we don’t reflect in our lives.
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Lake Chelan Lutheran Church
Team Members Paul Palumbo: pastor and team leader
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Liturgy for the Visitation of the Dying Lake Chelan Lutheran Church proposes to create a liturgy for the visitation of the dying that will connect the hope of dying daily in our baptism with the dying that takes place daily in the bodies of those around us.
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Second Presbyterian Church
Team Members Paul Sanner: minister of music
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"Take Back Our Time" Initiative Our community is stressed about time. The 40-hour work week is unrealistic as competition for jobs and personal ambition normalize long hours at the office and working in evenings at home. Even children are expected to do hours of homework at night as education becomes a means of personal and national competitive advantage. Individuals are exhausted and family, civic, and church life suffer. The very pace of time favors routine over reflection.
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The Church of St. Francis Xavier
Team Members John Uehlein: director of music ministries
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The Changing Face of the Roman Rite and the Impact of Text in Music The Church of St. Francis Xavier is a faith community where music, drama, dance and symbolic gesture are an intimate part of the ordinary liturgical experience. Like other English speaking Roman Catholic Churches, St. Francis Xavier is currently involved with the implementation of the third edition of the Roman Missal.
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Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green
Team Members Walden Moore: director of music and team leader
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Shaping Current-day Worship in Changing Times The 11AM liturgy at Trinity has always been a formal liturgy, often with traditional music provided by the choir of men and boys. The 9AM liturgy, on the other hand, has historically been the “contemporary” worship service.
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Yale
Institute of Sacred Music
PO Box 208273, New Haven CT, 06520
409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Tel: 203-432-3187 Fax: 203-432-5296
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