Hi, I’m Allan Buckingham creator of Together We Worship.

Our goal at Together We Worship is to help worship leaders create engaging worship. We do that by creating worship resources that empower you to easily lead a service of worship with as little or as much planning as you’d like.

More and more often as I work with congregations in my Region, and across the church I’m running into places that either can’t afford or have difficulty attracting full-time Ministry Personnel. In the best case situations this leads to lay people in the congregation taking a more active role in leading worship. In the worst, congregations spend lots of money paying for people to come from nearby, or sometimes not so near by, to lead worship. Or, there simply is no worship for weeks, or even months, at a time.

It’s no one’s fault in particular, and it’s not just you that’s having to deal with this situation. The reality is that there are less Ministry Personnel in the United Church of Canada, and other mainline churches in Canada as well. Beating yourself, or your worshipping community up because you can’t attract paid worship leadership doesn’t help. You’ve taken steps to help your community remain viable, and this might be one more. Empowering everyone to be able to lead worship with minimal training and effort can re-enliven folk and even get them interested in being church on more than just Sunday morning.

Most of us love meaningful, engaging worship and I’ve always wished that everyone was able to experience it. The more conversations I have with people about the state of many smaller, often rural, congregations, the more I realized I might be able to help. Not only can I help folks with the problem of holding Sunday morning worship, I can, hopefully, help you experience Meaningful, Engaging Sunday morning worship.

I’ve been privileged to be actively involved in the United Church of Canada at all levels, and even to represent the United Church of Canada at the international level with the World Council of Churches and the World Communion of Reformed Churches. Through this work I’ve been able to experience some amazingly powerful worship. I’ve also made connections with some pretty cool people who do some amazing work. Somewhere along the line I thought, “why don’t I use these connections and create a worship service that gives congregations access to these great people right where they are?”

And so Together We Worship was born. You’ll experience some of my favourite liturgists and preachers from across the country and around the world to offer you meaningful, engaging worship in an easy to use package for up to 75% less than the cost of pulpit supply.

All you need is someone willing to read from the leader’s sheet and a way for people to see and hear the video sermon.

Don’t have a church sound system or a projector, don’t worry. We can help you find a solution that works for your church for less than you think.

If your excited to join a growing Network of Communities of Faith using this resource, click here to join Together We Worship.