Here are three worship formats that can be adapted to meet your needs.
Adoration: 8:30 a.m. (mellow praise with keyboard and 5 babyboomer singers...the order below is simplified, not like what's printed in bulletin). Running time: 1 hour, 10 minutes.
-Welcome/Scripture Call by singer
-3 upbeat praise songs with handshake and prayer mixed in. [BR]-Announcements/offering appeal by pastor
-2 songs, the last leading into prayer time
-Morning Prayer (can be a Garden of Prayer)
-3 quieter songs (can include a old gospel one...a reading is sometimes mixed into these.)
-Sermon
-Response song
-Pastor's benediction
Praise: 10:00 a.m. (More contemporary with keyboards, drums, bass guitar, 5-8 young adult or youth singers. This format will vary significantly.) Running time: 1 hour.
-Welcome by singer
-3 energetic praise songs
-Invocation by singer or youth pastor
-Announcements/offering appeal by young adult pastor
-Offeratory by band
-Themeatic focus by singer (on occasions)
-3 quieter worship songs
-drama, dramatic reading or video (on occasions)
-Sermon
-Pastor's benediction
Exaltation: 11:30 a.m. (More traditional with organ/choir and participants sitting on platform) Running time: 1hour, 5 mins.
-Welcome/announcements
-Children's Story
-Call to Worship
-Hymn
-Morning Prayer
-Offering appeal by pastor
-Offertory (organ, instrumental or sometimes congregational singing)
-Anthem*
-Sermon
-Response Hymn
-Pastor's benediction
*Sometimes we'll do a block of worship flow starting with an offeratory congregational song on God's goodness followed by responsive reading of our unworthiness, then a choral anthem on God's mercy and the cross that is not based on our worthiness, then a read prayer of confession and acceptance of God's grace followed by a congregational song of joy.
Submitted by Pastor Terry Pooler, Apopka, FL.