Resources to aid worship at home

This page will be updated as more resources become available

• #LiveLent: Care for God’s Creation – the Church of England’s Lent campaign for 2020. With weekly themes shaped around the first Genesis account of creation, it explores the urgent need for humans to value and protect the abundance God has created. This daily audio content is available via the app and daily emails.
• Time to Pray app – everything you need for Prayer During the Day, with variations according to the day of the week and the season of the Church’s year. Download for free.
• The BBC’s Daily Service and Sunday Worship – radio programmes will be using some of the themes from #LiveLent as part of their broadcasts.
• Prayer for the day – each day the Church of England publishes audio and text of the Prayer for the Day.
• Smart speakers – daily prayer and #LiveLent audio content can be accessed via our smart speaker apps.
• Live streaming services – users can watch live streams of services from a range of churches.

What will we be developed in the weeks ahead?

In the days and weeks ahead the Church of England will be significantly expanding its output:

• Simple daytime prayer and night prayer service – building on the existing daily prayer feed, we will record audio to accompany daytime prayer and night prayer per day, which will be available via an updated app and accompanying podcasts.
• More video content – this will include video services and more content for Holy Week and Easter. In addition, we will make Holy Week audio content available.
• Using AChurchNearYou.com – signpost those churches that are live streaming services and events. Churches need to add the ‘Livestream’ tag to their services and events that will be broadcast. Remember to add into the description, how people can watch this. You can add a link to the platform you’re using to stream, such as your Facebook Page or YouTube Channel. Find out more about live streaming services and events.
• Mental health reflections – daily reflections to help people, especially at a time when they are feeling lonely, isolated or anxious. 
• Increasing the number of webinars – to help churches stream sermons, events and make the most of social media. Sign up for free.

Alongside the use of audio, app, smart speakers and social media, one of the main principles the Church of England are working to is to make as much as possible available in simple downloadable and printable formats for those who can’t easily access the technology.

Prayer and liturgy

A new page has been created containing:

• Prayers and intercessions for personal or group use
• Special prayers for use if it isn’t possible to meet in church
• Asimple form of prayer for the morning and evening, which can be downloaded, printed, and shared with those remaining at home or who are unable to access the Internet.

These resources are offered to help those who are struggling to find words at this difficult and stressful time, and to enable Christians to worship in solidarity with one another even if it is not possible to gather in church.