Worship Service Materials Available for Download

If you are planning to present a service at HUU, the following worship materials are available for your use.

Facilitating the Sunday Service

Our Typical Order of Service and How to Use It contains notes for facilitators and a full script of a typical service. Download it and edit the script to reflect how you plan to lead the service, in particular the names and placement of hymns and readings. Make it your own.

Our Typical Order of Service and How to Use It Our Typical Order of Service and How to Use It in Word format.

We strongly advise you not to rely on the copy of the outline that we keep in the podium. But know it is there in case you forget your personal script.

Simplified Our Typical Order of Service and How to Use It with fewer options. Choose the format you want and Print and Go.  Our Typical Order of Service and How to Use It in Word format.

Service Planning

Readings, Meditations, Children's Stories, Openings and Closings

  • UUA's WorshipWeb - WorshipWeb includes a searchable collection of prayers, meditations, readings, and words to open or close your service. Entire services are also available. WorshipWeb includes Learning Guides on UU worship theory, planning worship, starting a service, leading mediation, using readings and closing a service.
  • Chalice Lighting Readings - a selection of readings that can be used for the chalice reading.
  • Offering words  a selection of words that can be used when asking for the offering