Worship Resources & Liturgies
At Sacred Narratives, worship and storytelling meet. Here you’ll find original liturgies, prayers, and intergenerational worship resources written by Rev. Rachel Fetters—all rooted in Wesleyan grace, curiosity, and real-life faith.
These materials are created for both individuals and congregations who want worship that’s simple, meaningful, and inclusive. Churches are welcome to use and adapt these liturgies in worship; please credit them as:
“Liturgy by Rachel Fetters | sacrednarratives.com.”
Worship Content is easily searchable using tags. Use the Search block or click on what you want in the Tag Cloud.
Intergenerational or Accessible - These tags will pull content that is interactive or prioritizes simple repeating congregational responses
Liturgical Season - Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Ordinary Time - These tags will pull content that is for those specific liturgical seasons
Bible - Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), Wisdom, Apocrypha, or New Testament - will pull content from those sections of the Bible
Parts of Worship - Worship Opening, Prayer, Litany, Sacraments, Closing and Benediction - will pull resources for those portions of worship
Holy Giving Opening and Pastoral Prayer
Welcome home. This is a place where you can kick off your shoes. Put on comfy pants. Relax on the couch. This is a place where you can be yourself. You can take off the masks and hats that we each wear in the world and be ourselves. This is a place where you can just be. Let us be together. Let us be with our God.
So Now What? Opening and Call to Worship for Acts 1
So now what?
How do we follow Jesus now?
We have so many questions…
Where will we find our answers?
Together in prayer
Easter Confession - John 20
Holy God,
We sometimes miss the signs and wonders that point us to you
We look for you in the wrong places
We look for you in a fortress instead of on the beach
We look for you on a throne instead of on a cross
Who are we looking for?
We seek the Jesus who defies expectations.
Easter Proclamation Litany
Written for an Easter Sunrise service. Incorporates O Come, O Come Emmanuel themes to tie Advent to Easter. Could be modified to use in Christmas Tide as well.
On this radiant Easter morn,
As dawn breaks and shadows flee,
We gather in joyful expectation,
To celebrate Christ’s victory.
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Christ is risen, He is risen indeed!
Seeing God in One Another
Seeing God in One another - praise through creating art and prayer.
Unconventional Prayers of the People & Pastoral Prayer
I was convicted this week that we are all humans, created with love by God. In the image of God.
Greeting One Another
Those of you who are able, I would like for you to get up, and go sit right beside someone that you haven’t spoken to yet this morning. Shake their hand, greet them, and welcome them into worship with you and into your physical space.
Go ahead! Go and sit beside someone you haven’t spoken to yet this morning. If it is harder for you to relocate, one of those of us who it is easier to uproot will come to you; just stay where you are.
Does anyone need a partner still? Let’s each look around and make sure all have a place.
We are going to hand out a ½ sheet of paper and a pen/pencil. We are going to make contour drawings of each other. So I invite you to look into your partner’s face and then draw them. Contour drawings are done without picking up your pencil. We will set a timer for two minutes, for those two minutes, you should look at the beloved child of God in front of you and put their essence on your paper.
Don’t worry if you are a terrible artist, we will trust the Spirit in our endeavor to compensate for any lacking skills we have here. The point of this is to see the beauty and care of our Creator in each other. Ok, timer is set, go!