If they've come more than once and have expressed interest in a pastoral call, I encourage them to become involved. A homecoming day service at Trinity, Kearny. In the first season we offered it, our overall summer worship attendance doubled. Day uses the service to expand the type of liturgical offerings at St. Mark's, using expansive language texts and prayers approved by the national church in the place of a prayer book liturgy. Worshipers gather in the parish hall, sitting on folding chairs around a simple altar and cross.
Participants discuss the readings in place of a sermon.
At present the service does not include music, though Day hopes to incorporate this soon. Response to the innovation has been positive, with attendance averaging fifteen to twenty persons weekly. I feel more in touch with other worshipers. The Rev. Rose Hassan, rector of Trinity Church, Kearny, inherited a tradition of a Saturday evening service which she and members of Trinity have developed further. The vestry asked me to resume the Saturday worship, and I said I'd like to try using different types of prayers.