Resources by Jane Tiemersma Vogel

Traveling on Easter Sunday
Easter Family Resurrection of Jesus Christ
December 4, 2004

Easter sometimes falls during spring break, when many families travel. This piece is not so much for worship planners as for families in your congregations who may be away from their home church; you may wish to consider using it in your church newsletter.

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Purim, Passover, Pentecost
God's Deliverance God's Provision Passover Pentecost Purim
March 2, 2002

We presented service plans for the three Old Testament fall festivals in Reformed Worship 61 (Sept. 2001). The three springtime Old Testament “religious festivals” are

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Purim, Passover, Pentecost: Passover Script
Passover Pentecost Purim
March 2, 2002

[Family of four—Mom, Dad, two kids aged 8-12—enters the sanctuary. They are dressed for a summer outing and carry things for a picnic: lawn chairs, blanket, picnic basket. They also have Bibles.]

Child 2: [running ahead] Hey, everybody! I think this is the place.

< strong >Child 1: I don't think so. I think it’s further south.

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Pentecost Picnic: How the Spirit made what was all wrong go all right
Lord's Supper Multicultural Pentecost
March 1, 2000

This piece is an excerpt from one of the weekly e-mail newsletters she sends to all college students away from their home church. (http://www.mcs.com/-w crc/)

I'm a front-row kind of person—always have been. Rut on Pentecost Sunday morning, when we arrived at the outdoor joint service/potluck with Vietnamese New Hope Christian Reformed Church, the lawn chairs were already spilling down the hillside, so we settled in.

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The Feast of Booths
Feast of Tabernacles God's Deliverance Hope Light Water
September 1, 1999

We planned this service as part of an evening series on the book of Nehemiah. It focuses on the feast of booths or tabernacles (sukkot). With a little bit of tweaking, it could be an interesting service either for the time of sukkot or else possibly a service for the first Sunday of Advent.

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Reinventing the Youth Service: Discipling young people in a way that benefits the whole congregation
Faith Spiritual Gifts Testimony Worship Planning Youth
March 1, 1999

If you’ve ever suffered through trying to organize an unfocused group of teenagers into a cohesive team of worship leaders, you may have asked yourself, “Why are we doing this?” That’s the way we felt when we started working with our church youth group eight years ago. It took us a while to figure out how the youth service we had inherited fit in with the rest of the youth ministry program. Were we only going through the motions each year because “We’ve always done it that way”?

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