Festivals Together - Introduction- festivals for everyone
Festivals Together - Introduction- festivals for everyone
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
Creating all-age worship: the key components Introduction Festival is a great word and a great experience, one deeply embedded in contemporary culture. It is estimated that there are at least five hundred music festivals alone each year in the UK, plus countless other types. Ther…
Worship Together - Promise for Everyone
Worship Together - Promise for Everyone
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
December – Promise for everyone Worship Together December brings us to the beginning of the church year, but for the vast majority of people it brings us to Christmas. The challenge is to use the lectionary to recapture a sense of Advent, of preparing for the coming of Christ as …
Festivals Together - How to use this book
Festivals Together - How to use this book
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
How to use this book Festivals Together There are fifteen festival outlines in this book, each of them offering something different. They range from the familiar occasions such as Mothering Sunday to the solemn days of Holy Week.1 The ideas that are offered are jumping-off points…
Worship Together - Invitation for everyone
Worship Together - Invitation for everyone
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
November – Invitation for everyone? Worship Together By November we become very aware of the changing focus of the church year. This season is sometimes called the kingdom season, as the lectionary focuses on the kingdom drawing close, on the vision of a heavenly banquet and of j…
Worship Together - Recommended Reading
Worship Together - Recommended Reading
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
Recommended Reading Worship Together Children’s spirituality Adams, Kate, Unseen Worlds, London: Jessica Kingsley, 2010. Beckwith, Ivy, Postmodern Children’s Ministry, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2004. Berryman, Jerome, Children and the Theologians: Clearing the Way for Grace…
Drama: Gossip
Drama: Gossip
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama: Gossip (a piece for five voices – if you can get them – with the last sentence of the piece being read at the end by the first reader. Otherwise the readings could be adapted for two voices reading alternate paragraphs.) Now you know I’m not one to gossip, but I just heard…
Imagining the Lectionary - Upcycled and repurposed on the shabby chic road to Emmaus (Easter 3B)
Imagining the Lectionary - Upcycled and repurposed on the shabby chic road to Emmaus (Easter 3B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Upcycled and repurposed on the shabby chic road to Emmaus (Easter 3B) Reflection accompanying images “Gartons of Yorkshire shop”, “Shabby chic chair”, “Shabby chic vintage table for sale label” and “Shabby chic window display with jewellery cross” Shabby…
Drama: Good shepherds
Drama: Good shepherds
by Marjorie Dobson
Drama: Good shepherds A I am a shepherd. B And I am a shepherd. A I own 400 sheep. B And the farmer I work for owns 500 sheep! A I keep my sheep up in the hills over there. B And I look after the farmer’s sheep on the hills on the other side. A The weather can get really bad up t…
Poem: Empty words
Poem: Empty words
by Marjorie Dobson
Empty words from those who live in luxury and despise the poor. Empty words from those who enquire after the sick, but never visit them. Empty words from those who offer hollow sympathy, but never weep with those in sorrow. Empty words... Continues ©Marjorie Dobson
A blessing to bless others
A blessing to bless others
by Richard Steel
Blessing May God the Father keep us safe in His love. Amen. May God the Son walk with us every day. Amen. May God the Holy Spirit give us the strength we need to live for Him. Amen. May the special love of God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit be with us always. Amen. May God bless u…
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C)
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Better beyond belief (Epiphany 2C) Reflection accompanying image “You have kept the good wine until now ” In St John's Gospel emptiness and fulfilment are the polar opposites which frame the first public disclosure of God's amazing intentions in the mini…
Imagining the Lectionary: Hall of Mirrors (Proper 22B/Ordinary 27B)
Imagining the Lectionary: Hall of Mirrors (Proper 22B/Ordinary 27B)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: Hall of Mirrors (Proper 22B/Ordinary 27B) (Reflection accompanying image “Hall of Mirrors”) "He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being" (Hebrews 1:3) Entering into the visionary world of the gospel as lived out by Jesu…
Festivals Together - Past, present and future
Festivals Together - Past, present and future
by SPCK - Sandra Millar
Past, present and future Remembrance Sunday Remembrance Sunday is often one of the few occasions in the church year where those gathered are truly of all ages. There will be men and women in their eighties and nineties and there will be young children from Brownies and Beavers, w…
Festivals Together - Children for a change