{"id":26407,"date":"2026-01-15T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=26407"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:09:15","slug":"service-sunday-worship-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/service-sunday-worship-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship resources are available for Service Sunday on Feb. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Service Sunday is scheduled for Sunday, Feb 1. Service Sunday is recognized annually on the first Sunday in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 theme \u201cLiving with Purpose: Equipping God\u2019s People for Works of Service\u201d is inspired by the scripture text from Ephesians 4:11-13:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/2026-Service-Sunday-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/2026-Service-Sunday-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/2026-Service-Sunday-600px-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/2026-Service-Sunday-600px-560x225.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cSo Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ\u201d (NIV).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Service Ministries of the Church of the Brethren are sponsoring this special observance including Brethren Volunteer Service, FaithX, Brethren Disaster Ministries, and Children\u2019s Disaster Services.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Church of the Brethren has a rich history of service in the name of Christ, the Prince of Peace, that we are called to celebrate and continue to live out in the future. Congregations and leaders are asked to use Service Sunday to recognize those who have served in any of the sponsoring denominational ministries, as well as in the local community to share the peace and love of Christ with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worship resources for Service Sunday include calls to worship, responsive reading, prayers, children\u2019s activity\/message, poems, hymn and song suggestions, sample reflections, bulletin inserts, and multilingual resources in Spanish and Haitian Creole as well as English. They are free to download from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bvs\/service-sunday\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/bvs\/service-sunday\">www.brethren.org\/bvs\/service-sunday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #RacialJustice #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship #NewTestamentGiving<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/discernment-and-calling-an-appeal\/\">Discernment and calling: An appeal for nominations for the Annual Conference ballot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/disenman-ak-apel-yon-apel\/\">Dis\u00e8nman ak ap\u00e8l: Yon ap\u00e8l pou nominasyon pou bilten v\u00f2t Konferans Any\u00e8l la<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/discernimiento-y-vocacion-convocatoria\/\">Discernimiento y vocaci\u00f3n: Convocatoria para la presentaci\u00f3n de candidaturas para la votaci\u00f3n de la Conferencia Anual.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/help-shape-intergenerational-resources\/\">Help shape resources for intergenerational ministry: An invitation from Brethren Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ayude-a-dar-forma-a-los-recursos\/\">Ayude a dar forma a los recursos para el ministerio intergeneracional: Una invitaci\u00f3n de Brethren Press.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Service Sunday is scheduled for Sunday, Feb 1. Service Sunday is recognized annually on the first Sunday in February. The 2026 theme \u201cLiving with Purpose: Equipping God\u2019s People for Works of Service\u201d is inspired by the scripture text from Ephesians 4:11-13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[1252,456,68,5,1253,457,1814,3579,1160,2287,1898,2195,1998],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-26407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bdm","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-bvs","tag-cds","tag-childrens-disaster-services","tag-faithx","tag-free-resources","tag-service-ministries","tag-service-sunday","tag-prayer","tag-service","tag-worship-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26411,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions\/26411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=26407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}