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Pentecost - All-age worship
Pentecost celebrates the birthday of the church. The day when Jesus fulfilled His promise of sending to his followers the Spirit of God to be with them and in them. This activity helps a church to celebrate Pentecost together and would work as part of an All-age service or an All-age part of a service.
View ideaEaster - Presentation on Easter through punctuation marks
An all-age talk idea for Easter Sunday.
View ideaPentecost - Response story
Here is a simple response version of the Acts 2 narrative, which might be suitable for an all-age service or children's group. The aim is to link up the Pentecost story to Jesus' last days and to emphasise the 'awe and wonder' of the events in Acts 2.
View ideaRuth 2
If you're looking story for harvest, why not use a harvest-time tale from the Bible as told in the book of Ruth? There are many elements of this harvest romance, which you could develop in conversation with the children or as part of a talk.
View ideaChristmas - Presentation of Christmas message through sounds
Looking for a new, fun way to tell the Christmas story? Here is an idea involving sounds and simple visuals, which could form part of your Christmas worship this year.
View ideaChristmas - presentation of the real meaning of Christmas
Here is an idea for a Christmas presentation that can involve a number of people - children and adults - as they help the congregation to explore what Christmas is really about.
View ideaLent - Story of Jesus' temptations - a reflective story
The story of the temptations (Matthew 4:1-11), and the idea of fasting for a long period, are both parts of the Lenten tradition. Here is an idea for a session for your group linked to this story.
View ideaEducation Sunday - Jesus in the midst
The following idea is a possible Bible story to use an Education Sunday service and centres on the only incident from the Gospels where we see Jesus as the child among teachers. It comes from Luke 2:41-52
View ideaPentecost - A story and a poem
Pentecost is such an important new beginning in the story of God's rescue of planet earth. Here are a simple story and a poem that try to prepare the ground for talking about Jesus returning in the person of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
View ideaRuth's Harvest Surprise
If you're looking story for harvest, why not use a harvest-time tale from the Bible as told in the book of Ruth? There are many elements of this harvest romance, which you could develop in conversation with the children or as part of a talk.
View ideaCandlemas - Great Grandma Anna
The following retelling of the story of the visit to the Temple by Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus from Luke's Gospel would work well as the reading in an all-age service or as a dramatic piece to open up a session on this passage with a group.
View ideaAscension day - A presentation on the theme of saying goodbye
Ascension Day assembly ideas
View ideaBeing a child of God - Ephesians 1
A reflective story based on Ephesians 1:3-10 in the style of Godly Play
View ideaThe burning bush - a reflective story
A reflective story about the call of Moses in the style of Godly Play
View ideaThe Prodigal
A reflective story based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son in the style of Godly Play
View ideaFeeding the five thousand
A reflective story about the feeding of the 5,000 in the style of Godly Play
View ideaRevelation - John's final work
A reflective story about the life of the apostle John in the style of Godly Play
View ideaAdvent - Introducing advent
This is a short presentation to introduce the idea of Advent with a children's group or as part of an all-age worship. This There is an accompanying PowerPoint with useful images.
View ideaAdvent - Linking advent and the Tau cross
An outline for a session introducing the Tau Cross, based originally on a letter of the Hebrew alphabet and also on a Greek letter, with its special significance for Advent
View ideaLent - Cross (7) The Palm Cross
The following outline for children's work, a special event or Lenten display provides a link to further work during Lent on crosses that are found in the Barnabas book A-cross the World.
View ideaEaster - A Resurrection Cross
A cross that helps tell the story of Easter morning. This is a final cross to follow the Lent series in the Ideas section on crosses
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