Bible Buzz- Bible Reading Activity for Children Make some enlargements of a Bible passage (e.g. the storm on Lake Galilee, Luke using a photocopier and paste onto large sheets of paper or cardboard. Read the verses dramatically or get the children involved in drawing or dramatising it. The children then use coloured pencils or crayons [...]
Pentecost Rap by Nick Clarke Pentecost Rap from 77 Talks for 21st Century Kids by Chris Chesterton Breath and Spirit – children’s talk What a Gift! – a puppet talk Ideas for celebrating Pentecost. Mother’s Day on Pentecost- Worship ideas LaughingBird.net Paraphrase of Acts 2:1-21 Scripture Union “Xstream” LIGHT Sunday School downloads
All-Age Worship Web Resources (April 2010 updated) MessyChurch (in the UK) is one church’s attempt to be church for families who might want to meet Jesus, belong to their local church and bring up their children as Christians but can’t cope with traditional Sunday morning church services. Lot’s of practical suggestions to try. messychurch blog. [...]
Easter All-Age Worship Idea On Good Friday the wood cross stands bare except for a piece of purple material draped around the cross-bar. On Easter Sunday the cross has been covered in fine ‘chicken wire’ mesh and lights at the rear have been turned on. As people come forward for communion they place a flower [...]
Easter Reflections 1. When a tree is cut through you see the ring pattern that runs right the way up and down the trunk. Good Friday is a slice through history that allows us to see the pattern of God’s love stretching forwards and backwards to infinity. 2. “Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man [...]
An ‘Action Prayer’ suitable for an all-age worship service. Invite the congregation to copy the actions of a group at the front of the church or room as a reader says the following prayer. Pause between each section to allow time for reflection: (Arms raised, head up.) Lord God, we praise you. You are great [...]
Christmas-1st Corinthians 13 Style If I decorate my house perfectly with bows,strands of twinkling lights and shiny baubles, but do not show love to my family, I’m just another decorator. If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas biscuits, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtimes, but do [...]
Four Gifts of Christmas – An intergenerational worship service for Advent or Christmas CHRISTMAS and GIFTS seem to go together in everyone’s mind. Here is a planning resource for a service that celebrates four gifts of Christmas joy, hope, love and peace with people of all generations. Four Gifts of Christmas (508.13 kB) This great [...]
Last Sunday I led an all-age worship service on the theme”Like Christ”. Philippians 2:1-11 Some of the resources I used were- A puppet play I had written titled – “Working Together in Unity” A monologue I wrote which introduced the DVD segment. The monologue titled“Shine Like Stars” is written as if an older man is [...]
Family Grace (sung to the Doxology tune) Thank you for this food so “yum”. Soon be eaten in my ‘tum,tum,tum.’ (with appropriate taps to tummy) My giving God, you’re good to me, Please bless our meal and family. (c) Don Stott, 2009
Songwriters Showcase- Grassroots Christian Songwriters, has a number of songs for children or all-age worship available as MP3 downloads. It’s a bit of mixed bag with some really good songs and some which I think still need a bit more work. Have a listen to a few and see what you think. There may be [...]
Worship resources for school assemblies cowo.culham.ac.uk/ Collective Worship Resource – from the Culham Institute, in association with the National Society www.culham.ac.uk/storykeepers/ These resources are based on the Storykeepers television / video series. www.assemblies.org.uk Assemblies Website (SPCK) www.blackburn.anglican.org/cw/ Diocese of Blackburn Board of Education – Collective School Worship www.ely.anglican.org/education/schools/collective_worship/ Diocese of Ely Education and Training: Schools [...]
Worship the Rock-connecting worship leaders and musicians throughout the world. This great UK website has loads of worship resources and ideas on such things as songwriting, choosing songs, and musician tips. Of special interest to those involved in children’s ministry is the section called Worship for Kids. There’s a forum where people can ask questions [...]
Check out this song for children under five from Scripture Union Tiddlywinks material. Clap Your Hands
This prayer was originally posted on my other website at http://eliab.com. I wrote the prayer after thinking about how hard it is for some people to find time (or take time) to be alone with God. I thought having some kind of pattern to this “quiet time” might help someone get back to praying as [...]
I have just seen a great new children’s ministry resource from Scripture Union in the UK which has been developed to help those working with pre-schoolers.The material is called “Tiddlywinks“. They write.. “We are aiming to provide a monthly email to support and resource those working with under-5s in Christian settings. This could be on [...]
Gideon,Gideon Gideon, Gideon don’t you hide! Can’t you see God’s on your side? Gideon, Gideon trust God’s way. His victory is on it’s way. The might of Midian will soon fall. Step out now and hear his call! (x2) Gideon, Gideon what’s this fleece? You think with this you’ll find God’s peace? Your testing ways [...]
Share teaspoon prayers… Give everyone a teaspoon and explain that a short way (abbreviation) of teaspoon is TSP. TSP prayers include Thanks God , Sorry God , Please God Hand of prayer… Pointer finger- reminds us that our lives should point to God to thank and praise Him. Tall man (finger ) -The biggest finger [...]
Last Sunday I organised an all-age worship service which picked up the themes of blindness and sight, darkness and light. Here are some of the resources that I used – John 9 Bible Reading - The Blind Man (Powerpoint (54 mg) Mp3 based on Scripture Union’s filmstrip -also available as Awesome DVD) The life of [...]
Listen to an original story by Don Stott based on the healing of Jairus’daughter (shared as a monlogue at an all-age worship service). (Matthew 9:18-34) Click here to listen.
Easter March (American military style march) Let me tell you what Easter means. (echo) It’s more than bunnies and chocolate beans.(echo) God’s Son was born and lived on earth. (echo) Special child, miracle birth. (echo) He healed and taught and lived God’s way.(echo) Till he was killed on Good Friday.(echo) Not scared. (echo) Blood shed. [...]
The Lost Coin Luke 15:8-10 Find your broom, Sweep this room, Your coin has rolled away. (Oh no!) Hold up the light, Search though the night. Ah,there it is! Hooray! (Yay!) Come friends, rejoice! Lift up your voice, What’s lost at last is found. (Good News!) No longer stressed, The Lord has blessed, So show [...]
You may get your group of children or your family to think of ways in which they can reach out ot others with the hope that Easter brings. Make some home made biscuits. Put a cross made of icing on the top and give them to someone in your family or friend who needs some [...]
Hold up a hot cross bun and ask the group if they like to eat these buns at Easter. Say that many people all around the world like to eat these buns at Easter time and those that are Christians are reminded of Jesus death on a cross by the cross we find on the [...]
A prayer written for our church’s Dedication Service of our new buildings. Great BIG GOD! 1. Children form a circle around the outside of the seated congregation. The children reach out their hands to try and touch the finger tips of the child next to them. 2. The seated adults place their hands out in [...]
I have just found out about a great new website which offers free resources for ministry to children. Included for free is the new BibleMAX curriculum, video and song downloads and some training materials. New resources are going to be added in time. This generous offering of resources to the world via the net is [...]
Last Sunday we had an “all-age worship” service. The theme was “Living Stones & Chosen People. We used 1Peter 2:4-12 as the basis for the liturgy. I’ve included a couple of the things from the worship service here for you if you’re interested. 1 Peter 2:4-6 animated Bible Reading 1. (This file is an .exe [...]
The Centre for Theology and Ministry- The Uniting Church in Australia. Children and Family Ministry. The following website has a number of great materials for children’s workers. Children’s and Family Ministry resources including, material for Advent, Pentecost and Easter also latest resources and helpful web links. Faith at Home resources The ‘Faith at Home’ resources [...]
Begin with the children sitting in a circle. Ask the first child to begin by saying something he/she does at the beginning of the day. All the children respond with the words “Lord you are with me’. The second child repeats what the first has said and adds their own and all the children repeat [...]
