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INFORMATION FOR LITURGISTS

1. A copy of the bulletin will be mailed to you in mid-week, with your parts highlighted. 
   If you have any questions call the pastor.

2. Please use the wireless microphone. Even if your voice carries well, there are people 
   with hearing impairment who hear better when the microphone is used.  Hold the 
   microphone right up to your mouth.

3. Please stand when you are reading or leading the people in reading. Remain standing 
   through the silent prayers and prayer response after the prayer of confession. You 
   don't need to remain standing, for the hymn that follows the affirmation of faith.

4. Invite people to stand for the call for worship (they will remain standing through the 
   Gloria Patri). After the Gloria Patri, if they don't sit down, you may need to tell them that 
   they may be seated.

5. Please announce the hymn that comes after the call to worship and the hymn that normally 
   comes after the affirmation of faith.

6. Invite people to join you in the responsive and unison readings (call to worship, prayer of 
   confession, words of assurance, affirmation of faith). If the affirmation of faith is on an 
   insert, give people time to find it.

7. For the prayer of thanksgiving, you may write your own or use the one provided (which 
   comes out of a book). Except on Communion Sundays, the prayer of thanksgiving is 
   followed by the Lord's Prayer, which you invite people to responsively join you.

8. There will also be a call to confession provided. Read this and then invite people to join 
   you in the unison prayer of confession.  Following the unison prayer, invite people to a 
   time of silent prayer. Betty Hass concludes the silent prayer by playing the introduction 
   for the choir's prayer response.

9. You will ordinarily be asked to read the first Scripture reading

   1. Please practice it out loud ahead of time, remember that you are reading the
      Word of God.

   2. Announce the passage and the page number where it is found in the pew 
      Bibles (that page number will be in the bulletin), and give people time to find it.

   3. You may read either from the pulpit Bible (the big one on the communion table with 
      the large print) or a pew Bible or your own Bible. If you want to use your own Bible, 
      make sure it is the New Revised Standard Version (NSRV, which is what the pulpit 
      and pew Bibles are), so that what you read will be the same translation the people 
      have in front of them.

   4. If you aren't sure how to pronounce a word, ask the pastor.

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