A printable service outline to launch the week, ideas for bringing justice issues to life in your worship, and resources for children and young people.
Formal service outline
If your church is holding a Christian Aid Week service, the 'Leaders guide' and 'Order of service' can be changed to suit your needs and then printed out.
Service overview - get a sense of the whole service at a glance, including elements that have different options.
Download overview (17kb PDF)
Leader’s guide - includes leader's instructions and sermon notes, as well as congregational service, for explanation and ease of use. Change it to suit your needs then print it out to use in your service.
Download leader's guide (114kb RTF)
Congregational order of service A5 - change as required and then print out to use in your service. This is laid out as a booklet.
Download order of service (99kb RTF)
Congregational order of service to project - change as required then project in your church to guide the congregation through the service
Download PowerPoint (332kb PPT)
Worship resources
Pick and choose resources from this list that best suit your church. Use any element by itself or combine to make a longer statement. Key items this year include our new reflective film 'The Joy to Com,' the key story.
Reflection: The Joy to Come - download this file (65mb MPG)
Sermon notes - an outline based on lectionary readings, for you to adapt for your own sermon or talk.
Download sermon notes (29kb RTF)
All-age talk - a talk designed specifically for children and young people. This can be used as part of the full Christian Aid Week service, or slotted into your normal service at any point.
Download all-age talk (27kb RTF)
Let’s End Poverty: a Christian Aid Week story - the key Christian Aid Week story to tell in a service if viewing the film isn't available.
Download Let's End Poverty (20kb PDF)
Prayers - prayers of intercession and creative prayer stations. Choose one of these for your full Christian Aid Week service, or slot in either at any point in your normal service.
Download prayers (25kb PDF)
Suggested hymns/songs (18kb PDF)
Children's activity sheet - an activity sheet for Sunday schools and children in church, which can be used to follow on from the all-age talk or on its own.
Download activity sheet (576kb PDF)
Sofa Sessions – Youth in Church - discussion-based resource for youth groups and young people.
Download Sofa Sessions (550kb PDF)
Church magazine articles
Print out and photocopy these articlces to insert into your order of service, newsletter or parish magazine in the run up to Christian Aid Week.
Church magazine article 1 - an article for magazines and newsletters to help your church see why the week matters.
Download article 1 (343kb PDF)
Church magazine article 2 - an article for magazines and newsletters wth more information about our work in Kenya.
Download article 2 (590kb PDF)
Order resources online
Order the Christian Aid Week DVD-rom which contains all of the above resources. You can also use the order form to get additional posters, prayer and action cards, sponsorship forms, lapel stickers and how to guides.
