Image: Saget, Father George. Ascension, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.
As you plan for Ascension Day and Pentecost services, consider adapting one of these resources for your own context.
Ascension and Pentecost
- Services for Ascension Day and Pentecost: With Suggestions for Celebrating with Children
- The Earth is the Lord’s: Service Planning for Ascension and Pentecost
- Ascension and Pentecost Services from Italy: Joint Liturgies of the Baptist, Methodist, and Waldensian Churches
Ascension
- Ascension Matters: A Service Based On the Heidelberg Catechism
- A Litany for Ascension Day: Based on Texts from J. S. Bach's Cantana "Gott fahret auf mit Jauchzen" (BWV 43)
- Blessing for a Lifetime: An Ascension Service Using the “Children and Worship” Approach
- The King of Glory Now: A Service Celebrating the Ascension of Christ
- Look Around, Not Up: Worship Elements for An Ascension Day Service
- For additional resources view the Ascension Day collection at ReformedWorship.org.
Pentecost
- From the Cross, Through the Church, To the World: Resources for Celebrating Pentecost
- You Shall Be My Witnesses: A Pentecost Service with a Dramatic Reading from Acts 2
- A Prayer for Pentecost: Adapted from Acts 1:8 and Acts 2:1-4, 17-21
- The Fire, the Wind, the Water: A Dramatic Reading for Pentecost
- Pentecost Flames: Using Vertical Blinds to Move the Imagination
- Reconciliation and Pentecost: A Worship Series
- For additional resources view the Pentecost Sunday collection at ReformedWorship.org.
Other Resources
- For resources related to the Revised Common Lectionary readings, see Lectionary Year B.
- Worship Resources for the Sundays after Easter
- Worship Resources for the Sundays of Eastertide and Ascension Day: Litanies for the Opening of Worship
These resources are free to use in worship contexts with acknowledgement. For more specific guidelines see reformedworship.org/permission-guidelines.
