Category: ServiceBuilder

This page explains how to use the pre-defined Templates in ServiceBuilder. For information about how to create your own templates, please click here.

• Start Servicebuilder
• Select one of the pre-defined templates. There are three different types of templates

  Regular Services
  Occasional Services (like weddings, baptisms and funerals)
  Seasonal Services (like Christmas and Easter)

• Select a service from one of the three drop-down lists.
• Enter the Date of the service and press the “Next” buttton. Your selected template will now display on screen. For example, if you choose the “Morning Prayer” template, you will see something like this.

  MORNING PRAYER

  (AAPB p.18)

  Welcome
  Opening Hymn	Song: Select song from list;A Mighty Stronghold is our GodAll glory, praise and honourAll people that on earth do dwellAll hail the power of Jesus nameAll my hope on God is foundedAll praise to our redeeming LordAll things bright and beautifulAnd can it beApproach, my soul, the mercy seatAt the Name of JesusBe thou my vision, O Lord of my heartChrist, whose glory fills the skiesCome, thou long-expected JesusCrown Him with many crownsFight the good fight with all thy mightFor all the saints who from their labours restForth in thy name, O Lord, I goGlorious things of you are spokenGlory be to God the FatherGod has spoken by his prophetsGod is our strength and refugeGod is working His purpose outGreat is your faithfulnessGuide me, O Thou great JehovahHail to the Lord’s anointedHail, thou once despised JesusHallelajuh! sing to Jesus1 Corinthians 13 (Rob Smith)AcceptedAre You LookingAt the Cross of JesusAt Your FeetAwesome GodBehold the Lamb of GodBorn AnewChrist Alone If the Song is not in the list, please enter it in the box below
  introduction	You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created. Revelation 4:11

• The template above contains
  a text area (so that you can write your own welcome),
  a drop-down list (so that you can select the song)
  a rubric (instruction to the user) with a second text area for entering a song not on the default list, and
  static text (the text of Rev 4:11).

  To use the template, fill in the text areas and select an item from the drop down lists.

• Once this process is complete, Click the “Build Service” button
  .

ServiceBuilder is a tool that helps create God-honouring, meaningful and biblical gatherings. It allows you to arrange ‘resources’ (like confessions, creeds and prayers) into services that glorify God and edify the church.

You can use predefined ‘templates’, or you can adapt the standard templates to create your own. Once you have built your service on-line, the service can be saved in MS Word format, ready for use in church.

ServiceBuilder can output a “Detailed” and a “Summary” version of your service. The summary version might be useful (for exmaple) as the version that you provide to the congregation, which would contain only the congregational responses. The detailed version would be the version used by the service leader.

Click here to start ServiceBuilder

Click here for help to get started

Click here for help to create your own templates

 

This page explains how to create your own Templates in ServiceBuilder. For instructions on how to use the pre-defined templates in ServiceBuilder, click here.

Before you can begin to create a Personal Template, you need to be be logged in to the system.  If you haven’t already applied for a user account at BetterGatherings, you need to use the login menu on the lower left hand side of this screen, or click on this link.

To create a new Personal Template, you first open an existing template and then save it.  Start ServiceBuilder, and choose an existing template that is closest in format to what you wish to create.  Click “Next” to proceed to step 2 in the process.  At the top of this screen is a button that says “Create Personal Template”.  Click this button now.

The selected template will now display in edit mode.  You must suppy a name for the new template that you are creating.  Then make any neccessary changes to the template.  Once you have finsished editing the template, click on the button that says “Save and Return to Template”.  See below for futher information about codes you can use in a template

To open and edit an existing template

When you are logged in, all templates saved under your user name will be displayed in the Personal Templates dropdown.  Select a template and press next to proceed to step 2.  Use the “edit template” button at the top of this page to edit an existing saved template.

To delete a personal template

Select a previously saved template from the Personal Templates list, and click the delete button.

Template Format Codes

A simple template might look like this

Service Name

{Song}

{Creed Default=Apostle’s Creed}

Bible: [Textarea]

Special Elements in the template are enclosed within braces {}.  There are two types of elements – Variables and Resources.

Variables List (with sample data)
{CalendarDate} = “22/08/2010”
{CalendarDateLong} = “22 August 2010”
{SundayNameAABP} = “Ordinary Sunday 21”
{SundayNameBCP} = “Trinity 12”
{SeasonalName} = “”
{Colour} = “Green”
{ServiceDate} = “26/08/2010”
{ServiceDateLong} = “26 August 2010”
{TemplateName} = “Communion (First Order)”
{UserName} = “mstead”

 

Resources List

{Greetings}
{Sentence}
{Seasonal Sentences}
{Greetings Introductions}

{Exhortation}
{Confessions}
{Assurance of Forgiveness}

{Song}
{Funeral Hymns}
{Carol}

{Commandments}

{Collect}
{Collect (AAPB 2)}
{BCPCollect}

{PreparingForGodsWord}
{Epistle}
{Gospel}

{Creed}

{Opening Prayers}
{Expressions of Praise}
{Intercessory Prayers}
{Thanksgivings}
{Other Prayers}
{Concluding Prayers and Blessings}

{Proper Preface}
{Communion Exhortations}
{Scriptural Introductions}
{Prayers of Preparation}
{Greeting of Peace}
{Thanksgiving and Consecration}
{Breaking of the Bread}
{Thanksgiving and Dedication}
{SentenceAfterCommunion}

{BaptismExhortations}
{BaptismCandidatePrayers}
{BaptismQuestions}
{BaptismForms}
{BaptismPrayers}

Specifying Default values for resources

A “default” item can be specified for a resource lookup, using either a static value or a variable. The syntax is as follows:

{Creed Default=Athanasian Creed}
{Collect Default={Sunday Name}}

Hiding sections of a service in the detailed and summary outputs

material between the tags {rubric}  and {/rubric} will only appear on the runsheet.
material between the tags {leaderonly} and {/leaderonly} will appear on the detailed export but not the summary export.