This page includes anything a COS worship leader could ever want: links to song lists and liturgies, a list of services and times, and other resources. It is a work in progress.
- If you need to know who’s doing what when, visit the online COS worship schedule.
- For lectionary Psalm resources, check out Lectionary Psalms: A Worship Music Planner’s Guide.
- A list of songs we’ve sung at COS can be found here: COS Song Use
- A list of songs used in the BES worship service is here: BES Song List
Seasons and Services
- Advent The four Sundays leading up to Christmas
- Lessons & Carols (6pm) Usually held on the Sunday after the Calvin L&C
- Christmas Eve (5pm) A family-friendly service that often includes drama
- Christmas Eve (11pm) Traditional candlelight service
- Christmas Day (10am) Relaxed family-friendly service with lots of carol singing
- Christmastide The services that fall within the “12 days of Christmas”
- Epiphany 5-7 weeks celebrating Christ’s childhood and ministry
- Lent 6 weeks of penitence leading to the cross
- Ash Wednesday (7pm) Remember our mortality, including the imposition of ashes
- Maundy Thursday (7pm) A service of the upper room that may include passover and tenebrae elements
- Good Friday (12:15pm) A short services of readings from the cross, usually with dancers
- Eastertide 7 Sundays following Easter
- Easter evening testimony service (6pm)
- Ascension celebrated the final Sunday of Eastertide
- Pentecost Season Pentecost Sunday, followed by two different liturgies, each used for 5-9 weeks
- Creation Season 5-6 weeks, starting close to September 1 and extending through October 4, The Feast of St. Francis
- Trinity Season 5-6 weeks
- All Saints (6pm) A service of testimony and remembrance of the cloud of witnesses that have been formational to our faith.
- Thanksgiving (10am)
- Periodic services and service elements
- Baptism
- Commissioning
- Profession of Faith/Affirmation of Baptism
- Ordination