Offers clergy and worship planners the opportunity to utilize the Bible in new and engaging ways. An excellent sourcebook for African American congregations as well as planners looking for multicultural worship resources.

Trumpet in Zion: Worship Resources, Year C is a "read-to-use" handbook for pastors and worship teams that addresses God in the voice, verbiage, and expression of African Americans in worship. As with Hollies' previously released Trumpet in Zion: Worship Resources, Year A and Year B, Year C is an excellent sourcebook for African American congregations and worship planners seeking multicultural worship resources. Based on the Revised Common Lectionary, Year C includes a call to worship, call to confession, prayer of confession, words of assurance, responsive reading based on the Psalter, offertory invitation and praise, benediction, and blessing for each Sunday. It is also highly adaptable, making it an ideal resource for congregations who do not follow the lectionary. Book jacket.

This volume's contributors--dynamic and progressive African American church leaders--advocate the prophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and evangelism in support of community and economic development, ministerial and lay leadership, and enhancement of church life. Among the writers are Charles G. Adams, Randall C. Bailey, James H. Cone, James A. Forbes, Jacquelyn Grant, Obery Hendricks, Asa G. Hilliard, Dwight N. Hopkins, Cecil Murray, and Gayraud Wilmore. All were presenters in 2004 at the first Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, established to reinvigorate the social justice agenda of America's black churches.

Including lectionary-based calls to worship, prayers of confession, and blessings, Trumpet in Zion addresses God in the voice, verbiage, and expression of African Americans in worship.