March 2000

Ascension / Pentecost

RW 55

Articles in this issue

Perspectives

Caught Up in the Cloud

Rescuing the Ascension story from familiarity

By

Arlo D. Duba
Songs for the Season

Clap Your Hands, All You Nations; Through All the World; I'm Gonna Sing When the Spirit Says Sings; Come, Holy Spirit; Now Go in Peace

By

Emily R. Brink
Resources

Make a Vision Statement: Basics for bringing new life to your worship visuals

By

Lisa De Boer
How to...

How to...Encourage the Children in Your Congregation to Worship

Part 1: Ideas for Worship Planners

By

Kathy Sneller
Reviews

Book: Psalter for Christian Worship

By

John C. Bush
Reviews

Book: El Himnario Presbiteriano

By

Jorge Lockward
Resources

This Far by Faith: A new African-American hymnal and worship resource

By

Horace Clarence Boyer
Resources

Pentecost Prayer

By

John Paarlberg
Q&A

On the Importance of Appearance, the Catechumenate, and Appropriate Words of Greeting

By

John D. Witvliet
Editorial

Where Two or Three Are Gathered: The definition of what constitutes a worshiping community is changing

By

Emily R. Brink
Come and See

Signal the Sacraments: Baptism

By

Dean R. Heetderks
Perspectives

Planning Ahead: How one pastor was delivered from Monday morning madness

By

John Ooms
Reviews

Letters
Perspectives

Blended Worship: What it is, what it isn't

By

Constance Cherry
Notes

Notes
Series for the Season

On our way to the Celestial City

Six service plans with dramas based on The Pilgrim's Progress
Perspectives

Pentecost Picnic: How the Spirit made what was all wrong go all right

By

Jane Tiemersma Vogel
Perspectives

Ten Questions Youth Leaders Ask About Worship: Sally Morgenthaler and Robert Webber respond

By

Sally Morgenthaler
,

Robert E. Webber
View from the Pew

Warthogs: Why professor Farnsworth didn't go to chapel

By

James Calvin Schaap