Creative Ideas for All-Age Church

12 through-the-year programmes for informal church services and special one-off events.

Creative Ideas for All-Age Church by Karen Bulley was published by Barnabas in May 2010 and is our 2005th best seller. The ISBN for Creative Ideas for All-Age Church is 9781841016634.

Features the themes that contain a wealth of creative worship ideas, designed to encourage the church family to listen to each other's stories. Through listening and worshipping together in a less formal setting, this title promotes creative thinking and enables people to learn together in worship and grow in faith as part of God's family....

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Creative Ideas for All-Age Church contains 12 themes. Each one has a large variety of creative worship ideas, customised specifically to encourage the church family to listen to each other. Through engaging and worshipping together in a more relaxed setting, the material promotes creative thinking and inspires people of all ages to learn together in worship and grow in faith as part of God's family.

Each theme contains introductory reflections on all seasons of the year, a biblical context, ideas for a visual display, age-specific activities, meal ideas, for reflections, prayers and sung worship and, finally, ideas for taking the theme further.

The creative themes give you an ideal opportunity for once a month creativity with colour and individuality in each session. The resource can be used to plan stand-alone worship projects or to follow the pattern of the Christian Year and the seaons. Some themes use abstract ideas and are designed to encourage lateral thinking, whilst others are based on Bible stories or issues relevant to the church family.

The pick-and-mix approach of the material within Creative Ideas for All-Age Church offers a wide range of practical projects and fun (or reflective) activities designed to give choice to those planning the worship.

Themes included in Creative Ideas for All-Age Church:

Gifts, skills and talents (Epiphany)
Lent
Unity (Holy Week)
Celebrating life (Easter)
Sharing our story (Ascension)
Prayer (Pentecost)
Summer outings
Quiet spaces
Harvest
Sharing our concerns
Advent
Christmas

Karen Bulley is the Pilots Development Officer for the United Reformed Church and Chair of the ecumenical Consultative Group on Ministry Among Children (CGMC). Her material includes contributions for CORE Skills for Children's Work. Karen Bulley also writes articles and magazine pieces and is involved with training adults to work with children and young people.