What's New, January 2026
As we begin a New Year, the Gathering Editorial Team of Tammy-Jo, Alydia, Catherine, and me have a big thank-you to offer to each of you who submit your prayers, worship materials, worship sparks and ideas, hymns, and reflections to Gathering. We love discovering what you have sent our way and getting it ready to share with other worship leaders.
We aim to use everything you send in some way. Sometimes we save it for future issues. Sometimes we use it right away in the issue we are creating. In our editing, we seek to remain faithful to what you have offered, even while we edit according to the United Church and Gathering style guides. Always we value what you have sent to us, an idea, a prayer, a hymn, a drama, or a complete worship service. We know it comes from the heart of your congregation’s worship life and from the love, energy, and time you put in to creating it. We can’t create Gathering without you! The more you send us, the better our resource. So, go to the Submit Content to Gathering button on GatheringWorship.ca or email your material to @email.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
New resources for the Season of Epiphany found on our website:
- When the Ways of the World Wear Us Down (a prayer)
- Thanking Faithful Disciples and Volunteers: a service that you might like to share near to Valentine’s Day
- For lighting the Christ Candle, In the Season of Epiphany in Canada
- Try a new sung version of The Lord’s Prayer. There are many to choose from in the 2025 and 2026 issues of Gathering, on our website, and in Then Let Us Sing! Here are a few:
- Lord’s Prayer by Diana Hannaford-Wilcox
- The Lord’s Prayer by Pat Mayberry and David Kai
- The Lord’s Prayer by Janet Kidd
- And in Then Let Us Sing! you’ll find The Lord’s Prayer (The Prayer Jesus Taught) in various languages and many beautiful settings (pp. 66–70)
Things you might want to bookmark:
- Welcoming in the Name of the Trinity: a variety of greetings to open worship for every season and occasion
- Testimony – For an Annual Meeting
- Remembering: For All Saints' Sunday or an Annual Meeting: a ritual of remembering the saints who have gone before us
- The Transfiguration Story Retold
From my heart to yours, many blessings for your worship journey through 2026!
Susan
