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Producing Your Own Orders of Service

Producing Your Own Orders of Service Many churches produce their own service sheets or booklets, whether for regular use or for special occasions such as weddings, confirmations or carol services. This practical book offers a range of suggestions to help in the process of putting together such materials - from planning to proof-reading and beyond.

It includes ideas about:

design and layout
copyright
liturgical principles
how to use illustrations
practical matters like paper and printers
how to make the structure clear.

There are hints and tips about how to avoid common pitfalls and produce clear, user-friendly orders of service. A range of real-life sample layouts are provided to illustrate best practice. The ideas in this book will inform and equip anyone compiling their own service sheets or books, enabling them to produce materials that are both elegant and appropriate for their setting and purpose.

Revd Mark Earey worked in parish ministry in Leicester and then Rochester for six years and at the time of writing this book was Praxis National Education Officer.

'This is stunningly good... this book, once seen, will be viewed as essential.'
Colin Buchanan, News of Liturgy

'This unique and invaluable guide is absolutely essential reading for parishes wanting to produce books or leaflets which are both user-friendly and good looking. This book is, quite simply, unique, and you need it!'
John Leach, Anglicans for Renewal

'... an excellent little guide for parish desktop publishers... thoroughly recommended.'
Revd Dr Paul Sheppy, Joint Liturgical Group Newsletter

'I was so impressed by it that I lent my copy to all the team clergy and haven't been able to get it out of their clutches since.'
Sheila Shield, Reader, Central Wolverhampton

'Completely indispensable'
Revd Simon May, Vicar of Whitchurch

'Money spent on this book could well be the best purchase of the year. Perhaps DLCs will be giving awards of Charter Marks for excellence in accordance with what will soon be known as the Earey principles of production!'
Charles Chadwick, Former Oxford DLC

'I have been recommending that all churches currently producing, or planning to produce their own orders of service in our diocese buy this excellent book - it is the best guide on the market, clear, accessible and relevant.'
Dana Delap, Durham Diocesan Development Officer for Common Worship

ISBN - 0 7151 2001 8
RRP - £7.95

Place an order with the Church House Publishing web site.