Eucharistic Ministry Resources

Eucharistic Ministry

Eucharistic Ministry is the service of bringing the elements of Holy Communion to congregation members who are "unwillingly absent" from the community Table. This ministry is conducted by trained laypeople, who are also trained to serve at the Lord's Table.

When the United Methodist Church General Conference adopted This Holy Mystery as a teaching document in 2004, United Methodists, had for the first time, a set of guidelines for creating such a ministry.

The resources offered here follow these guidelines. These are suggestions only; you are free to develop your own resources following the guidelines in This Holy Mystery.

A Eucharistic Ministry kit Click this link for details of one form of kit and its contents.	Training presentation template Right-click link above and save target to your computer. Copyrighted images have been removed; use Microsoft PowerPoint to replace them with your own images. Training outline Right-click link above and save target to your computer.
The ritual cards for the kit Right-click above and save target to your computer.
Other resources:
Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry World Council of Churches' ecumenical document exploring unity and diversity of understandings of Communion.	United Methodist Book of Worship from Cokesbury.com