What's New, December 2025

We hope that you’ve discovered the new, easy access to the Upcoming Weekly Services on your Dashboard page. We appreciate your feedback and continue to update the site to help resource your worship planning.

We know that searching for items on GatheringWorship.ca has been a bit of a challenge. We are working on some changes. Check out the Notes from the Editor blog to learn more about how to use the Search functions on the site.

Advent Unwrapped is now live on the main United Church site and offers a great variety of worship ideas, services, music, and other related material to support your worship planning.

New resources for Advent Christmas Epiphany found on GatheringWorship.ca:
•    The Hands of Christmas: A Christmas Pageant 
•    Thoughts of a Woman in Bethlehem: A Story 
•    A Time for Dreaming: An Advent Theme 
•    Advent Amen: A Sung Commissioning 
•    Donkey Plodding to Bethlehem: A Hymn 

Things you might want to bookmark
•    A Blue Christmas 
•    Keeping Watch in the Night: A Blue Christmas Service 
•    Christmas Eve Airbnb: A Drama  
•    Enter into the New Year Enfolded within the Divine Presence: New Year’s Day At-home Prayers  

In the midst of planning, preparing and guiding the journey of the worshipping community through this season, may you discover Jesus as your guide into the wondrous mystery we celebrate.

Many blessings for the Advent journey.  

Susan