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
Boundaries for Blessing - Call to Worship
Call to worship to be used around the 10 commandments or the sermon on the mount
Welcome:
Let us enter into worship of our God together. We come to worship to praise our God and offer our gratitude for the presence of God’s grace in each of our lives. In your bulletin, you’ll find an adapted prayer in the voice of Moses, let’s re-create this praise in our worship today.
Call to Worship Psalm 90:
One: The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together.
Many: The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road.
Call to Worship - God Takes Personal Care of Us
Two versions - One more closely reflects Psalm 4 and the other is with gender-neutral language for God
Scripture Based Call to Worship (from Psalm 4)
Answer me when I cry out, my righteous God!
Set us free from our troubles! Have mercy on us! Listen to our prayer!
The Lord will hear us when I cry out.
We remember…
The Lord takes personal care of us.
Easter Opening Prayer - John 20
Ever Present God,
You are found by those who seek you.
On that first Easter morning,
Mary came to mourn,
she rose early seeking to visit her beloved friend,
she knew exactly where to find Jesus.
But her beloved wasn’t where she expected.