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If you're looking for help in your work as a church children's worker, Core Skills for Children's Work will provide valuable insights into child development, leadership skills and programme planning. It provides very high-quality in-service training. Highly recommended. Building on the foundational teaching in Core Skills for Children's Work, this complementary resources offers six key modules of extended training for children's workers and their teams of adult helpers and young leaders.
Local church, local school is intended for church leaders, lay leaders, children's work leaders, governors, PTAs, teaching staff, non-teaching staff, and Christian parents seeking to support and serve their local primary schools. The aim of the book is to encourage churches to see engagement with their local schools as part of their service in the community. This can be as much through presence and practical support as through teaching and leading worship, and has the added bonus of giving confidence to schools to see their local church as a teaching resource as well as being a community with much to offer.
All-Age Worship The prospect of all-age worship can easily produce a cry of anguish from... well, from so many people. It's time to be real. It's time to admit that worship with all ages present is easy to do appallingly and difficult to do well. It's time to acknowledge that it takes a huge amount of grace from every participant. But it's also time to admit that a church that unthinkingly packs off any subgroup, old or young, to worship and learn in another space every week could well be completely daft... An imaginative presentation for churches to use with primary schools Moira Curry and Gill Morgan The Easter Journey provides an exciting opportunity for church-based children's teams to perform a delightful, easy-to-do presentation to their local primary schools. Aimed at Year 5 children, the material gives pupils and teacher alike a memorable learning experience by unfolding the Easter story through creative storytelling, simple drama and thought-provoking artefacts.
The Christmas Journey provides an exciting opportunity for church-based children's teams to perform a delightful, easy-to-do presentation to their local primary schools. Aimed at Year 2 children, the material gives pupils and teachers alike an enjoyable learning experience by unfolding the Christmas story through creative storytelling, simple drama, fun-filled puppetry and thought-provoking artefacts.
Growing Young Leaders offers practical guidance for those who feel called to mentoring 13-18 year olds in a faith context, with a view to nurturing them towards leadership roles. Linked to CPAS's course Growing Leaders - Youth Edition, it also works as a stand-alone resource. It defines mentoring, analyses the necessary skills and attributes of a mentor today, encourages good practice, considers the safeguards needed to meet child protection guidelines and above all considers how to help young people identify their gifts and grow as Christian disciples. This is the sister book to Ready to Lead.
A book on leadership for church-going teenagers, Read to Lead explores the key elements of leadership in a friendly and accessible manner. Based around Paul's letters to Timothy, it is ideal for a mentoring programme for teens. Like the popular book Growing Leaders, it works as a stand-alone book as well as an accompaniment to the course.
Alongside the usual mix of creativity, fun, Christian hospitality and thanksgiving Messy Church 2 explores the importance of discipleship, faith development and training for leadership. The material includes many ideas for practical ways to promote a sense of fellowship and community. The book contains a further fifteen units of fun, food, crafts and mess, with a year's worth of material that your Messy Church will love. Messy Church 2 is also available as a PDF Download. Understanding the five essential elements of child development Keith White For all who care for children, whether in a professional or voluntary capacity, this book examines the care needed for a child to develop into mature adulthood. The encouraging feature of the book is the realization that these five elements for love can be found in the most unlikely places and situations, and where they are present, in whatever form, love is able to grow.
Creative Ideas for Quiet Corners is designed to encourage children to find space for prayer by creating a physical prayer space in the home or at church that children can visit and enjoy. Each prayer idea uses simple but effective materials to create a quiet, reflective corner. The book also offers practical support to parents and leaders, so they can help children to move at their own pace into a sense of quietness and prayer. Creative Ideas for Quiet Corners is also available as a PDF Download.
Bethlehem Carols Unpacked, published in partnership with BibleLands, offers all those planning a Christmas carol service with the opportunity to create a vibrant service through a wealth of pick-and-mix ideas, including creative storytelling, poetry, prayer, drama and worship. Taking eleven popular carols as its starting point, the material explores the different aspects of the Christmas message and gives you the chance to create a truly memorable carol service. Bethlehem Carols Unpacked is also available to purchase as a PDF Download.
The first part examines what it means for the congregation to meet as a worshipping community, through six all-age workshops or activity mornings. The second part comprises a six-session course designed to help young people live out the Eucharist in daily life. Bursting with ideas to draw people of all ages together and help them experience Christian community outside of Sunday worship. The resource book contains 15 themed programme outlines, with ideas for creative art and craft activities, recipes and a family-friendly worship. Messy Church creates the opportunity for parents, carers and children to express their creativity, sit down together for a meal, experience worship and have fun in a church context. This exciting new training scheme seeks to resource all those who work with children in the church, and provides part of the foundational training for children's leaders in the Methodist Church and United Reformed Church. The material is creative and interactive, making it highly accessible as one-off two-hour training programmes for children's leaders within the local church. |
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More Core Skills for Children's Work
Growing Young Leaders
Ready to Lead
Messy Church 2
Creative Ideas for Quiet Corners
Bethlehem Carols Unpacked
Creative Communion
