| Places to start surfing about Emerging Worship |
| Marcia honors diversity and teaches concepts applicable to any "style" of worship. However, Marcia's dedication to experiential, sensory-rich, interactive worship with deep soul finds great resonance with the postmodern "emerging worship" or "alt worship" movements. Learn more... |
| - www.smallfire.org |
| - www.emergentvillage.com |
| - www.alternativeworship.org |
| - www.vintagefaith.com |
| - www.emergingworship.org |
| - www.gbod.org |
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| On Drumming! |
| If you’ve been at an event with Marcia, you know that she never leaves home without percussion! Whether drumming or shaking a rattle with global songs, or using the gentle sounds of a rainstick to accompany a reading, world percussion is making a comeback as essential instrumentation for worship. |
- www.rhythmweb.com
Learn to make your own percussion |
| - www.serrv.org
A fair trade organization that sells rainsticks |
| - www.remo.com
Find the closest store to buy djembe’s, doumbeks, etc., etc. The djembe is the drum Marcia travels with... a great
first percussion purchase for your worship. |
| - www.glenvelez.com
Buy Remo Mondo Tars designed by a premier frame drummer. |
| - www.rhythmweb.com
Learn about the most ancient drums (remember Miriam and the women at the Red Sea?) |
| - www.layneredmond.com
Speaking of women, learn about women drummers and their history. Order the book, When the Drummers Were
Women by Layne Redmond. |
| - www.drumcircle.com
Village Music Circles is the home of master drum circle facilitator Arthur Hull with whom Marcia studied. Order
the book Drum Circle Spirit and the Guide to Endrummingment video to expand your understanding of the power
of rhythm. |
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| Publications |
| Marcia has, at one time or another, subscribed to these magazines. Most have archived articles on-line. |
| - Liturgy Journal - www.informaworld.com |
| - Reformed Worship - www.reformedworship.org |
| - Worship Leader - www.worshipleader.com |
| - Worship (scholarly journal - study of liturgical theology and practice) - www.saintjohnsabbey.org |
| - The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies - www.artsmag.org |
| - Creator Magazine (sign up for "Monday Morning E-Mail") - www. creatormagazine.com |
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| Grants for Worship Study |
| These institutions have provided grants to churches that made a consultation with Marcia possible. Apply for funds to help your congregation revitalize their worship. |
| - Calvin Institute of Christian Worship - www.calvin.edu |
| - Louisville Institute - www.louisville-institute.org |
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| Workshop references |
| Some of the specific websites that Marcia mentions in her workshops |
| - Order The Faith We Sing - www.cokesbury.com |
| - Software for worship technology - www.sundayplus.com |
| - Software for worship technology - www.mediashout.com |
| - License to print Music and Lyrics - www.ccli.com |
| - License to print Music and Lyrics - www.onelicense.net |
| - License to print Music and Lyrics - www.licensingonline.org |
| - Philip Cox-Johnson visuals/textiles - www.gospelcolors.com |
| - Buy gossamer fabric here - www.shindigz.com |
| - Buy fabric-embossed floral type ribbon here - www.papermart.com |
| - Learn about Taizé© worship - www.taize.fr/en |
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| More links than you’ll know what to do with... |
| If you are a link-aholic, start at these sites (Marcia has in NO WAY looked at all of the links found at these) … happy hunting! As with all the links on this site, the views and opinions of each site are not necessarily in line with Marcia’s views and opinions. |
| - www.worshiplinks.com |
| - www.multisensoryworship.com |
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