Christ Our Shepherd launches new contemporary service

Christ Our

Shepherd launches new contemporary service

Christ Our

Shepherd Lutheran Church in Peachtree City will begin a new worship service

next Sunday, June 10, on a trial basis for the summer at least.

Overflowing

attendance at existing services, plus a desire to appeal to a different

group of worshipers, prodded the church to try an additional service,

according to associate pastor Miriam Beecher. Either she or senior pastor

John Weber will preach at both the new service ­ scheduled for 10:45

a.m. in the church's Fellowship Hall ­ and the familiar 11 a.m. service

in the sanctuary. No changes are planned for the congregation's other

worship services, at 7 p.m. Saturday and 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday.

Although essential

elements of Lutheran worship will be present, the style of the new service

will be more relaxed and the service briefer. A team of two lay "host

families" will greet worshipers, read Scriptures, offer prayers,

serve Communion and collect the offering. They will make available materials

explaining Lutheran beliefs and worship principles. Barbara Tinker coordinates

scheduling and training these host families.

The new service

will be hymnal-free: Scriptures, songs, announcements and other worship

materials will be projected onto a large screen using Power Point software.

Kathy Rothfusz is charged with preparing these materials, and Britt Weber

will be the first from a team of volunteers to operate the program.

A team of 10

singers and 10 instrumentalists, most of whom also sing, will lead the

music. At least half of these musicians have led contemporary worship

services in other churches, and two couples organized similar services

for their former congregations.

According to

music director David Beecher, the music ranges from "exciting to

devotional; it is 'hummable,' but has musical and theological integrity."

The church

is at the intersection of Georgia Hwy. 54 and Peachtree Parkway North.

For further information, call 770-487-8717.

Back

to the Top of the Page