Sunday School/Children's Activities
Wild Worship is for families and churches that want to use creative ways to connect with God outdoors. Part of our Wild Worship series that includes the bestselling Wild Advent and Wild Lent, this book is perfect for families that have children in forest schools or groups that just love getting closer to nature while doing life together. This fantastic guide is also great for children's workers who are tired of being inside and want to take their groups outside as part of their worship
Based on the idea of the gospel being good news for messy people, young and old, Family Question Time is designed to help families talk about the basics of the Christian faith. Written in an interactive, user-friendly and jargon-free style, it offers information alongside encouragement to ask big questions, and contains suggestions about how to express a commitment to God.
Refresh Cafe is a fun and effective way to build fruitful relationships with parents and carers in your community. It's stay and play turned on its head: the children have fun, but we focus on refreshing the adults with time to talk, fresh coffee, pastries and most importantly our key ingredient: a five-minute 'thought for the day' where we share something of God in a gentle, relevant and accessible way. All this in a welcoming play space for the children.
This resource offers a treasure trove of ideas for opening up a Bible story (the way in), telling the story (the way through) and exploring the meaning of the story (the way out), including suggestions for reflecting on how to apply the story to our lives today. Also included are over 30 key words and phrases providing ways in which connecting threads might be explored, and a suggested year’s programme using the Bible stories explored in the book.
Twelve sessions for Messy Churches to do outdoors, created by a Messy Church Goes Wild writer team, enhanced by additions from scientists, and piloted in urban and rural Messy Churches. Session titles: Wild and wilderness!, Wet and wild!, Wild and rocky!, Wild and weedy!, Wild woods!, Wild weather!, Wild on the wing!, Wild and wiggly!, Wild safari!, Wild me!, Wild on the move!, Wild life!
All Age Services
You can't turn a service into an all-age worship service just by throwing in a children's sermon and an action song. All-sorts Worship contains complete services for every Sunday of Year C, which are designed to include people of 'all sorts and conditions of life', meaning that the whole congregation worships together and nobody is tidied away. Each service offers a completely fresh set of ideas, tailored to a specific theme.
The all-age talk is a task guaranteed to give preachers sleepless nights! Very few people feel they have a gift for it, and most lack confidence. This reflective and practical guide addresses these concerns, and aims to build a sure theological understanding, develop skills and grow confidence. Twelve chapters explore different kinds of engagement - with the senses, with one another, with oneself, with scripture, with liturgy, with the church, with God, with challenging situations, and more
Coming up with craft and activity ideas to explore a Bible story is one thing; but when it comes to sharing that story in the gathered celebration, many Messy Church leaders struggle to find the right language and approach. The parables that Jesus told intrigued, inspired and engaged the crowds in his day, combining everyday imagery with surprising twists that prompted all ages to wonder and discover the treasures of the kingdom of heaven for themselves.
On an afternoon 2,000 years ago, a couple of friends were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus. A very ordinary–looking man joined them and asked what they were talking about. This was a strange question as one event had dominated most people’s conversations that weekend: the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. However, the ordinary–looking man was not as clueless as they first thought...
Find everything you need to lead a Family Eucharist in this comprehensive and versatile all-age resource. Building on the Additional Eucharistic Prayers for use in services with children, it balances formality and informality to help you create engaging worship for all. Easily adaptable for large and small all-age congregations, it offers ready-to-use worship ideas and service outlines for themed occasions throughout the year.
This 5th edition of A Wee Worship Book consists of almost completely new material, so those who have used and been inspired by the ‘4th incarnation’ will find here a rich, fresh collection of resources. It offers six morning liturgies, six evening liturgies and an order for Holy Communion with a range of alternative invitations and prayers. The appendix includes four contemporary affirmations of faith and fourteen chants and sung responses.
Baptism, Confirmation & Communion Resources
Every page in this book has been designed to help you mark a very important journey. Step by step it will help you to learn all about belonging to God’s family. So it’s about you and God. You can fill in the pages by yourself, or with the help of a grown-up. If you are using this activity book as part of your church’s Welcome to the Lord’s Table programme you will have the opportunity to offer it at your first Holy Communion as a sign that you belong to God and are part of his family.
Confirmation Book for Adults is a confirmation course to use with adults, designed to cover a range of learning styles. The content covers the traditional ground of such courses, beginning from the questions adult confirmation candidates bring to faith development. It is organised around 10 sessions, though these can be used flexibly, and contain different ways to reflect on the material, including discussion and activities.
Since the introduction of Common Worship, demand has been extremely high for material to help parishes use Common Worship with children. Designed to meet that need, this fully-revised edition of My Communion Book helps children gain a better understanding of Holy Communion. This resource for children and families is primarily aimed at 4 to 8 year olds. It can be used initially as a sharing book, adult and child reading together, but children may use it at times on their own.
Baptism is an important experience in the life of a growing Christian. It’s the way that we publicly show that we follow Jesus. In this popular handbook, experienced evangelist Victor Jack explains from the Bible that baptism is a response to conversion and is commanded by Jesus. The booklet contains helpful questions after each chapter and also unpacks how to keep living as a Christian after baptism.
My Baptism Book aims to help children understand one of the most important days of a child's life. It is a beautiful personal reminder of this special day and one that a child can return to again and again. It can be used by adults and children together, or in more formal baptism preparation and includes a number of inspiring ideas on ways to use the material creatively. This is an ideal gift for children aged 3+.
This volume offers a complete collection of the authorised Common Worship baptism and confirmation services, including the Additional Baptism Texts in Accessible Language developed by the Liturgical Commission. Suitable for use at the altar and font, it is designed to be used as a service book for baptism and confirmation and reflects the variety of practices in parishes and cathedrals.
Liturgy for all Occasions
Common Worship: Times and Seasons helps clergy and Readers plan and prepare worship that embraces the richness of the Christian year. This collection concentrates on the major liturgical cycles of the Christian year, especially from Advent to Candlemas and from Lent to Easter. It also includes a collection of resources for the festivals and seasons of the agricultural year, as well as material to explore themes like creation and the environment.
This booklet presents the text of the Common Worship Funeral service, as well as supplementary prayers, Bible readings, Prayers of Entrusting and Commending, The Burial of Ashes, Psalms and Canticles. It includes dual pagination, allowing a funeral to be performed using both Common Worship: Pastoral Services and this booklet simultaneously.
This versatile collection provides a wealth of supplementary material to help you customize Common Worship services for any locality, age group, special occasion or festival. It offers: * Advice and guidance on planning, preparing and structuring services. * Over 250 pages of prayers and liturgy, conveniently organised by function, e.g. Gathering and Greeting, Praise and Thanksgiving, Action and Movement. * 22 easy-to-adapt sample services for eucharistic, non-eucharistic, all-age worship & more
Presents the Common Worship Marriage Service, the structure for a marriage within a Celebration of Holy Communion and a selection of supplementary texts, including Bible readings, alternative vows and additional prayers. Suitable as an order of service or for use in wedding planning.
Common Worship: Pastoral Services offers liturgical material for the journey of each individual through life. For each key element of this journey (birth, marriage, healing, death), it provides both material for key ‘public’ events and resources for ‘private’ pastoral care. It includes the services of Marriage, Funeral, Wholeness and Healing, Emergency Baptism and Thanksgiving for the Gift of a Child, alongside prayers for Ministry to the Sick and Prayers for Use with the Dying.
Includes the text of the Order One service, all eight eucharistic prayers, and supplementary texts including a form of preparation, penitential material, the Apostles Creed, a selection of prayers at the preparation of the table and a selection of prayers after communion.