The “Basics” download contains everything you need to get started with our 2025 Lenten series, All We Need. (Sample)

INTRODUCTION AND SEASONAL ESSAY, including:

• An introduction to the season that orients you to the theme, All We Need.
• A seasonal essay called “Emptying the Mitten Closet: Meeting Our Neighbors’ Needs” that provides rich material for small-group reflection on how to identify and meet our neighbors’ true needs.

PREACHERS’ NOTES: Preaching commentaries explore connections between each week’s lectionary texts and the All We Need themes:

• Ash Wednesday: our own and others’ needs
• First Sunday in Lent: the need to embrace vulnerability
• Second Sunday in Lent: the need for sleep
• Third Sunday in Lent: the need for an advocate
• Fourth Sunday in Lent: the need for change
• Fifth Sunday in Lent: the need for beauty
• Palm and Passion Sunday: Jesus needs our help
• The Great Three Days: the need for love, protection, and new life
• Easter Sunday: the need to rejoice

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE STARTERS: Kid-friendly connections to the week’s theme help to jump-start your brainstorm for a children’s message.

WORDS FOR WORSHIP: Fresh texts for Lenten worship include some texts that change weekly, and some that endure throughout the forty-day journey:

• Gathering Words (all-season and weekly options)
• Confession and Forgiveness (all-season)
• Prayers of the Day (weekly)
• Prompts for Prayers of the People (weekly)
• Offering Prayer (all-season)
• Eucharistic Prayer (all-season)
• Prayer After Communion (all-season)
• Blessing (weekly)

HYMN SUGGESTIONS: Weekly hymn suggestions provide musical pairings to match theme, message, and music.

A SOCIAL MEDIA KIT:

• Images and guides that allow you to design your own graphics in concert with More Than Words branding, including links to Canva templates.
• Graphics with curated excerpts from our Preachers’ Notes and Words for Worship, suitable for posting to your own church’s social media pages.