The Abingdon Worship Annual offers fresh worship planning resources for pastors and worship leaders. The AWA addresses the need worship planners have for ideas for the written and spoken segments of the weekly worship service. At present, Abingdon provides valuables resources for sermon and music planning through The Abingdon Preaching Annual and The United Methodist Music and Worship Planner. However, no ongoing resource exists to provide assistance to pastors and worship planners who must regularly write calls to worship, invocations, prayers and benedictions. Moreover, there is no resource that offers guidance to those who lead contemporary worship services on a weekly basis. The AWA addresses the specific worship-planning needs of these two groups.