Dear Worship Planners,

At a meeting of those of us involved in worship planning and leadership the other day, we decided that we wanted to put on the church website a list of resources that we knew of.

When a group is planning worship, go to this page to get some ideas - there are some fantastic websites around with access to lots of interesting and relevant resources.

Worship Planning Rosters & Songlists

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http://www.sermons4kids.com - This website is a useful tool for worship planning - particularly around childrens activities.

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http://www.thebricktestament.com - This website has most of the Biblical stories done in lego. From Genesis to the teachings of  Jesus, they are presented by lego and the story is listed as well. Worth a good look. 

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http://www.australianscreen.com.au - Access to short clips from most Australian movies. You can type in a particular movie to find a particular clip, you can look up a theme. They are down loadable in different formats.

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http://www.togethertocelebrate.com.au - David MacGregor is a well known UCA songwritier in Queensland. We sing a few of his songs from time to time. He gives lectionary based suggestions for worship.

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http://www.hollywoodjesus.com - a resource which helps identify useful film clips and complete films (both current and past) that can have some relevance to our understanding of faith. Check it out and see what they say about the new film - Horton Hears a Who.

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http://www.laughingbird.net/WeeklyArchives.html - We have found this site useful as the readings are written in more modern down to earth language.

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http://www.sermons4kids.com/hmartin.htm - This site has cartoon type pictures for some bible stories. 

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http://www.textweek.com - This has lectionary resources - lots of links to different sites, movie suggestions that fit with the theme, etc

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http://home.alphalink.com.au/~nigel/index.htm - This is Bruce Prewers home page. He is a Uniting Church minister (retired) and has written books of prayers/poems. On this site you may find some of these linked to the lectionary readings.

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http://vineresources.com - For those that do a teaching series from time to time and like free stuff. They have packaged a whole lot of their series graphics - including PowerPoint backgrounds, video loops, title image files - even countdowns, bumpers, and Photoshop files - and have made them available for download. Most themes are simple and based around only a word or two, such as 'Dirty Laundry', 'Wake Up', or 'Connect'.

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