Watch the recordings and have your own “roundtable” long-range worship planning retreat at your convenience! Plan a few days to watch all the sessions and get your plans in place, or move through the year one season at a time with inspiration and plenty of ideas to support and nourish your community through powerful worship experiences.
Prepare for each season of the 2023-2024 liturgical year by watching each of our recorded sessions. Dr. Marcia's conversations with guest theologians and artists will inspire your creativity as you reflect on what messages your community needs most to hear in the coming year. If you prefer to plan solo, set aside some time for yourself in a sacred space to watch the recordings. If you have a worship team who helps you prepare ahead of time for each season, gather your team at someone's home, at the church, or a getaway retreat space to learn and plan together.
Prepare for each season of the 2023-2024 liturgical year by watching each of our recorded sessions. Dr. Marcia's conversations with guest theologians and artists will inspire your creativity as you reflect on what messages your community needs most to hear in the coming year. If you prefer to plan solo, set aside some time for yourself in a sacred space to watch the recordings. If you have a worship team who helps you prepare ahead of time for each season, gather your team at someone's home, at the church, or a getaway retreat space to learn and plan together.
Immerse yourself in a time of evaluating where you are in your worship and where you want to go! Long-range worship planning is not just about picking scriptures, making sermon titles, and choosing anthems. It is an opportunity to assess elements that work or need improvement, and to reimagine the possibilities. Through these recordings, Dr. Marcia McFee guides you in a process of tending to all these needs so that you finish the retreat with renewed excitement, stronger purpose, and clearer objectives for the year ahead. This is the greatest gift you can give yourselves as leaders in this moment as we continue to navigate changes in our churches and the world.
Join us at the table, now and later.
The wonderful thing about this livestreamed retreat is that these recordings are valuable resources to refer to throughout the entire liturgical year to come. You don't have to watch them all at once, and you can take your own time to pause, reflect, and discern where the Spirit is calling your community through each season of the year to unfold.
Make plans now, and you will be so grateful to your "past self" two months from now, or five months from now, or anytime you need to recenter as a spiritual leader and come back to the vision that you carefully cast at the beginning of the year.
Come back to the table anytime you need a refresher. Let this be a resource that serves you now and in the future.
When you purchase access to the livestream sessions, you also get access to the private 2023 Planning Retreat Group on our website that has lots of notes and planning materials AND access to the whole community of churches who are using these resources as a touchstone throughout the coming year. Our retreat also includes bonus materials on "Both/And" and "Yes…And" worship techniques to draw in those who don’t come to your sanctuary and instead participate through hybrid worship. PLUS you get access to our new “Come to the Table” 5-week fully-scripted worship series so you have September through World Communion Sunday planned immediately! You can also save this worship series for later in the year - it is not tied to a specific season, giving you maximum flexibility.
You are never alone. You never have to start from scratch.
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your team and its ministry of worship!
"Thanks for an amazing retreat! I've been so very blessed. I look forward to what comes next!"
- S.S., Abilene, TX
"These concrete tips have been very helpful. Thank you all, this has been very helpful to my thinking ahead and planning for the year. "
- A.O., Suquamish, WA
"Bravo! Great retreat! Thanks to all who made this possible!"
- C.W., Columbus, OH
Choose one of the registration options below. Individual registration is $150 per church. But check it out: if you are a WDS Subscriber, you can sign up to participate for just $15! Click the button that says "Yes, I'm a Subscriber" to send us a notification that you'd like to sign up for the retreat for just $15.
Email us at marcia@marciamcfee.com if you're not sure which registration option is right for you.
