JMA Commissioning Service 2025/2026
What is the JMA Commissioning Service?
The JMA Commissioning Service provides an opportunity to acknowledge the particular contribution of JMA groups and for wider reflection on how we share in God’s mission for the sake of the world.
The service usually takes place during an act of worship. Certificates and badges can be presented or sent to JMA collectors, while also acknowledging the work of the JMA secretary and celebrating the work that all their fundraising enables.
Certificates, service and prayer cards can be downloaded below, including large print versions. JMA resources are also available to order from Methodist Publishing. All items are free.
- Rainbow magazine summer 2024
- Rainbow magazine summer 2025 (coming soon)
- JMA Commissioning Service
- JMA Commissioning Service: Leaders Notes
- JMA 2024 badges [2025 badges coming soon]
- JMA saving box PDF to 'make your own' box
- JMA stickers
- JMA Thank You Certificate (English)
- JMA Thank You Certificate (Welsh)
- JMA Long Service Certificate
JMA Commissioning Service 2025 - Suggested Bible reading
"O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.”
Psalm 96:1-2 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)
JMA Commissioning Service 2024 - Suggested hymns and worship songs
Singing the Faith (StF)
StF 65 Sing of the Lord’s goodness
StF 72 Father God I wonder
StF 76 Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising
StF 78 Give thanks with a grateful heart
StF 81 Now thank we all our God
StF 82 O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder
StF 88 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation
StF 89 Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
StF 94 To God be the glory
StF 98 Your love is amazing, steady and unchanging
See also Singing the Faith Plus and Special Sundays.
Other suggested songs
‘I will celebrate’ by The Maranatha Singers
‘Praise him on the trumpet’ by John Kennett
JMA Commissioning Service 2025 - Suggested prayers
Download your prayers
Theme for the JMA Commissioning Service for 2025/2026
The theme for 2025/2026 is ‘Sing to the Lord’, inspired by the Methodist Prayer Handbook 2025/2026: Our Story, Our Song.
We want to help children and young people be passionate about global issues. The JMA Commissioning Service online content hopes to empower young people to champion global mission. The JMA resources help young people engage and express their ideas, thoughts and opinions on global issues, and teach them about the work of the Methodist Church in Britain and Methodist Church in Ireland.
You can find helpful worship song suggestions, prayers and Bible readings for your Commissioning Service on the theme ‘Sing to the Lord’ on this page.
The suggested worship songs, prayers and Bible readings encourage us to ‘Sing to the Lord’ as we live this out as part of ‘worship’. A Methodist Way of Life commitment for worship.
Extra resources:
Sign language is used by many deaf people to communicate. It’s a rich combination of hand gestures, facial expressions and body language.
Try out some greetings in sign language with your friends. Could you greet deaf visitors to your church or JMA group using sign language? It’s bound to make them feel special that you’ve taken the time to learn BSL and speak in their language!
Why not get your group to try and say the Lord’s Prayer in sign language:
Video courtesy of Heathcote Parish Church, Warwick.
- BSL A to Z alphabet (right-handed)
- BSL A to Z alphabet (left-handed)
- BSL general greetings
BSL charts courtesy of British Sign Language
https://www.british-sign.co.uk/
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*Scripture quotations are from New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. http://nrsvbibles.org