Producing your own orders of service
The best way to use the 2004 Holy Eucharist is probably not to buy the large red books, but to customise your own rite from the options and alternatives available. This allows you, as well as the option of your own standard service, to produce a series of cards for different seasons of the year, which you can even colour-code: a lilac card or book for Lent, gold-coloured for the Easter season, and so on, which contain the appropriate alternatives. The Parish Development Adviser has a set of templates and would be glad to help you, but there is also a most helpful book on the practicalities of selecting and producing texts. Mark Earey’s Producing your own orders of service (London: Praxis/Church House, 2000) does exactly what it says on the tin, and in addition to helping you make your service books look good, outlines a wealth of good principles for layout and design which would not go amiss on some church notice sheets or bulletins.
There are advantages and disadvantages of presenting liturgy via PowerPoint rather than books, but again the PDA can give help and advice to churches whose architecture allows them to think of exploring this route.