The UCA Assembly’s collection of worship resources available on their website.
This collection of free worship resources has been gathered by the Uniting Church in WA for use by all. You can find a description of the various types of resources and filter by that resource type by clicking on one of the labels above.
Includes a list of different services such as Ordination, Induction, Commissioning and Other Services.
Prayer and liturgical resources for specific occasions, including: * in relation to the revised Preamble to the UCA Constitution * support to the First Peoples of this land * Great Prayer of Thanksgiving, prepared from the dialogue between Lutheran Church of Australia and the UCA.
Monthly Prayer Schedule for the current calendar year.
The Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) is a three year cycle of Bible readings. It follows the seasons of the Christian year and begins each year with the first Sunday in Advent (which usually falls on the last Sunday in November).
Below are links to a variety of resources for the preparation of weekly worship. Please contact our Rural Resource Minister at [email protected] for a more comprehensive list if those below do not meet your specific requirements.
All Resources|Prayer & Liturgy|Orders Of Service|Worship Resources for Congregations|Prayer Calendar|The Lectionary
Includes comprehensive preaching notes and host of other helpful resources e.g. a children’s message.
Reflections on Lectionary readings, prayers, links to other resources (prayers, hymns, videos etc.)
Intergenerational liturgies with prayers, activities, and other resources.
A weekly lectionary-based podcast for preachers – excellent conversations around the weekly texts.
Full weekly liturgy with welcome, readings, prayers, message, hymns, etc.
Lectionary-based liturgical resources – subscription-based. Please contact the Rural Resource Minister if you would like to be included in the monthly mailing list for these - [email protected]
An active, vibrant Facebook group for the Assembly Transforming Worship Circle – a place for questions, ideas and more. Note: you will need to request to join this group and agree to the group rules to be able to participate in this forum.
A lectionary is a series of readings from the Scriptures designed to be used from week to week as the basis for preaching and worship. More information on the Revised Common Lectionary can be found on the Uniting Church Assembly website here - https://uniting.church/2024-2025-lectionary/
- December: Mid West Region
Week starting Sunday 6 December
Dongara Uniting Church and Moora Uniting Church
Frontier Services WA Bush Chaplains and Methodist Church of Sri Lanka
Week starting Sunday 13 December
Geraldton Lighthouse Uniting Church
UCA Redress Ltd and the Protestant Christian Church in Bali
Week starting Sunday 20 December
Northampton Uniting Church and the Multicultural National Conferences
Assembly Circles of Interest: Walking Together as First and Second Peoples, and Being a Multicultural Church
Week Starting Sunday 27 December (Metro North Region)
NorthWay (Beldon-Iluka and Carramar) and Trinity North Uniting Churches
Juniper aged care
- November: Great Southern Region
Week starting Sunday 1 November
Albany Regional Congregations (Albany, Denmark, Lockyer and Mount Barker Uniting Churches)
Week starting Sunday 8 November
Esperance Uniting Church
Council of Christians and Jews WA
Week starting Sunday 15 November
Katanning, and Kojonup Uniting Churches.
Synod of Queensland
Week starting Sunday 22 November
Narrogin Group (Cuballing and Narrogin Uniting Churches).
The Church of North India
Week starting Sunday 29 November
Wagin Group (Darkan, Dumbleyung and Wagin Uniting Churches)
Hope Community Services Inc
- October: Metro East Region
Week starting Sunday 4 October
Armadale, Mundijong and Gosnells Uniting Churches; and the Tapu Niue Faith Community
Kiribati Uniting Church
Week starting Sunday 11 October
Foothills St Martin’s and Kalamunda Uniting Churches
Good Sammy Enterprises and the United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Week starting Sunday 18 October
Glen Forrest and Guildford Wesley Uniting Churches
Week starting Sunday 25 October
Mundaring and Swan View Uniting Churches
Congregational Church of Tuvalu
- September: Synod
Week starting Sunday 6 September
Uniting Church WA Moderator, Rev David Jackson, and the Moderator’s Chaplain.
The 50th Annual Meeting of the Uniting Church Synod of Western Australia
Placements Commission, Synod Business Committee
Week starting Sunday 13 September
The Legal Advisory Group, Council for Mission, Ecumenical Affairs Network, Ministerial Benefits Committee, Covenanting Commission and the Committee for Counselling
UnitingCare Forum
Week starting Sunday 20 September
Synod Standing Committee, the Property Trust, Disaster Relief and Community Recovery Committee and the Synod Standing Appeal Panel
Week starting Sunday 27 September
The Resources Commission, Social Justice Commission, Uniting Church Adult Fellowship WA, Uniting Church Mission Fellowship and the International Partnerships and Development Commission, Synod Sexual Misconduct Complaints Committee, and the Committee for Discipline
- August: Metro Central Region
Week starting Sunday 2 August (Metro Central Region)
Rowethorpe Uniting Church and Uniting WA
UnitingWorld, Frontier Services
Week starting Sunday 9 August
South Perth and Star Street Uniting Churches
The United Church in Papua New Guinea
Week starting Sunday 16 August
Penrhos College, Wesley College and Hospital Chaplains
Uniting Network Australia
Week starting Sunday 23 August
St Andrew’s Perth Uniting Church and Uniting Church in the City
Prison Chaplains
Week starting Sunday 30 August
Frontier Services Bush Chaplains and Remote Area Ministry (Goldfields, Mid-West, Meekatharra and Pilbara)
- July: Great Eastern Region
Week starting Sunday 5 July
Central Wheatbelt group (Tammin and Trayning Uniting Churches) Dowerin and Kalgoorlie-Boulder Uniting Churches
Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress
Week starting Sunday 12 July
East Avon Group (Cunderdin/Meckering and Quairading Uniting Churches)
Assembly Circle of Interest: Growing in Faith
Week starting Sunday 19 July
Eastern Wheatbelt Group (Merredin and Southern Cross Uniting Churches)
Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu
Week starting Sunday 26 July
Northam and York Uniting Churches
Council of Churches WA and YouthCARE
- June: Metro West Region
Week starting Sunday 7 June
All Saints Floreat and St Aidan’s Claremont Uniting Churches
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia and National Assembly Staff
Week starting Sunday 14 June
GKI Mosman Park and Nedlands Uniting Churches
Assembly Legal Reference Committee and the Uniting Church in Australia National History Society
Week starting Sunday 21 June
Mount Hawthorn St Peter and Emmaus Community Church and Wembley Downs Uniting Church
Uniting Church Archives and the Uniting Church Centre
Northern Synod
Week starting Sunday 28 June
Methodist Ladies’ College, Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Scotch College, and Scarborough Uniting Church
The Evangelical Christian Church in Tanah Papua
- May: Presbytery of WA
Week starting Sunday 3 May (Presbytery of WA)
Pastoral Relations Committee and Thrive Mission Committee
Presbytery of WA Chairperson, Rev Ken Devereux and the Presbytery of WA Secretary Rev Reuben Edmonds
Week starting Sunday 10 May
Candidates for the Ministries Committee and the Commission for Education for Discipleship and Leadership (CEDAL)
Week starting Sunday 17 May
Church Law Committee and the Nominating Committee
Standards for Ministries Committee and the Church Polity Reference Committee
Week starting Sunday 24 May
Presbytery Standing Committee and Presbytery Property Committee
Week starting Sunday 31 May
Uniting Generations Network, Intercultural Network and Rural Ministry Network
- April: South West Region
Week starting Sunday 5 April
Pinjarra and Waroona Uniting Churches, Warren-Blackwood Group (Bridgetown, Manjimup, Northcliffe and Pemberton Uniting Churches)
Protestant Church of Maluku and the United Church in the Solomon Islands (UCSI)
Week starting Sunday 12 April
Bunbury St Augustine and Capel Uniting Churches
Defence Force Chaplaincy
Week starting Sunday 19 April
Bay Life Uniting Church
Lay Preachers, PNEUMA, Uniting Church Mission Fellowship
Synod of South Australia
Week starting Sunday 26 April
Augusta and Margaret River Uniting Churches
Covenanting Commission and Uniting Disaster Recovery
Solomon Islands Christian Association (SICA)
- March: Metro South Region
Week starting Sunday 1 March
Applecross St Stephen’s, Beth Shalom Tongan and Bicton Uniting Churches
Please also pray for UnitingCare Australia
Week starting Sunday 8 March
Korean Yeon Hap, Kardinya, and Mount Pleasant Uniting Churches
Please also pray for Tranby College and the Protestant Church in Timor Larosa’e.
Week starting Sunday 15 March
Spearwood, St Mark’s Leeming, The Billabong and Willetton Uniting Churches
Synod of Victoria and Tasmania
Week starting Sunday 22 March
Maaman ‘O’ Mia, Mandurah and South Mandurah Uniting Churches
Frontier Services Bush Chaplains, Mid-West and Pilbara
Week starting Sunday 29 March (South West Region)
Fremantle Wesley and Rockingham Uniting Churches.
The Methodist Church in Fiji
- February: North West Region
Week starting Sunday 1 February
St Luke’s Carnarvon Uniting Church
Synod of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
Week starting Sunday 8 February
Remote Area Ministry Tom Price
Week starting Sunday 15 February
Emmaus Walks, Kairos Prison Walks and Chrysalis Flights
Trinity Residential College and the China Christian Council
Week starting Sunday 22 February
Hedland Fijian Uniting Church
Uniting Church Adult Fellowship WA
- January 2025: Metro North Region
Week starting Sunday 4 January
NorthWay and Trinity North Uniting Churches
Juniper Aged Care
Week starting Sunday 11 January
Maylands-Mt Lawley and Noranda Uniting Churches
Assembly Circle of Interest: Working for Justice
Week starting Sunday 18 January
Osborne Park and Wanneroo Crossways Uniting Churches
Assembly Circle of Interest: Seeking Common Ground
Week starting Sunday 25 January
Gingin Uniting Church, St Stephen’s School Carramar and Duncraig
Assembly Circles of Interest: Discipling the Next Generations and Transforming Worship
Video sermons including a congregational sermon and an all-ages sermon. Also includes recorded hymns from Together in Song.
From David McGregor who is based in Queensland. Helpful for finding videos of songs and hymns to match the lectionary readings.
Lectionary-based sermons, prayers, Scripture paraphrases.
Lectionary-based sermons by Revd Emeritus Professor William Loader.
This Service has been approved for use in its present form by the March 2016 Assembly Standing Committee
This Service has been approved for use in its present form by the March 2016 Assembly Standing Committee
This Service has been approved for use in its present form by the March 2016 Assembly Standing Committee
This Service has been approved for use in its present form by the July 2013 Assembly Standing Committee
This Service has been approved for use in its present form by the July 2013 Assembly Standing Committee
Prepared by the dialogue of the Lutheran Church of Australia and the Uniting Church in Australia and approved for use in ecumenical situations by the UCA National Assembly Standing Committee.
Prayers for congregations following an official report of sexual abuse within institutions / upon the discovery of abuse within a congregation / a communal prayer for individuals who are survivors of abuse.
The Working Group on Worship encourages congregations through the worship leaders to use some form of Acknowledgement of Country and Indigenous Peoples during all acts of worship
Resources suitable for worship and prayer with, or in support of, the First Peoples of this land
on occasions such as Reconciliation Sunday (1 Sunday in June)
Liturgical resources for use in relation to the revised Preamble to the Constitution
Liturgical resource Healing and Hope was prepared by the Assembly Resourcing Unit for use by Uniting Church congregations on the second Sunday of Lent. This is our foreshadowed response to the Royal Commission report handed down in December 2017.