The Book of Occasional Services 2003 Edition An essential textbook for beginning

An essential textbook for beginning spiritual directors

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton reflects on a broad range of experiences ministering among merchant seafarers

“Elizabeth Geitz's odyssey to a Cameroon orphanage yields profound insights into AIDS

revised Introduction

The Book of Occasional Services 2003 Edition An essential textbook for beginningThis edition includes the liturgies for Discernment for a New Church Mission; A Liturgy for Commissioning a Church Planter, Missioner or Mission Team; A Liturgy for the Opening of a New Congregation; Setting Apart Secular Space for Sacred Use; a new Litany for the Mission of the Church; and a variety of Church Planting collects, blessings and other prayers, and hymn suggestions. This material, authorized by the 2003 General Convention, is published in