Since Churches are worshipping online through streaming services, there is an opportunity for enhancing worship. The typical pattern is:

• Welcome
• Call to Worship
• Music
• Reading Scripture
• Prayer
• Sermon
• Music
• Benediction

Why not add some new items? This is a chance to be creative. You could have a drama. You could have people singing the hymns from their homes all over the community. You could include former members who are now far away in reading the scripture. You could have children sharing the prayer (i.e. using multiple takes if needed.)

The Welcome and the Benediction should be by the same person. This brings a sense of wholeness to the service. Some elements will be the same as the Church did in “live worship” before the pandemic. That gives a sense of familiarity. Finding new ways to worship online is like filling new wine in new wineskins. It allows the Church to grow and try out new items. And you may find that the congregation likes a new item so much that you’ll decide to incorporate it in “live worship” when you resume meeting in the sanctuary!