musings on ministry
The second pilot of Spill the Beans is here for Lent 2011. Spill the Beans is a resource pack for age group learning and all-age worship written by a few people in Clydebank, Blantyre, Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow and other places who all have the same sort of situations in church of smaller sunday schools and Read More …
Ken Robinson talks to the RSA about education and creativity. This is worth watching both for Robinson’s insight and inspiration and for the brilliant animation. If you work in a school context this will hopefully speak to you. If you work in a church context then swap ‘school’ for ‘church’ and see where that gets Read More …
HT to Steven
Some very gifted people I know have been working on a lectionary based all age worship resource with a Scottish flavour. It’s called Spill The Beans and you can download the pilot materials which cover the period from Easter to Pentecost and give them a try. Download Spill The Beans and remember to let them Read More …
Did you grow up in a Christian home? How do you know? Those were two of the questions which were posed by Lucy Moore during Messy Church training on Saturday. The assembled throng laughed nervously and made jokes about growing up in a bungalow and how they had never asked their house if it had Read More …
Sat 27 february 2010 10.30am – 4pm Cost £10 – includes lunch St Silas Church, Glasgow, 69 Park Road, Woodlands, Glasgow G4 9JE The event is a must for anyone interested in building a Christ-centered community where parents, carers and children can share their creativity, eat a meal and worship together outside of Sunday worship. Read More …
One of my favourite books is called Dangerous Wonder by Mike Yaconelli. The tag line of the book is ‘the adventure of childlike faith’. In it Mike argues that following Jesus should be an adventure. That Jesus is dangerous and wonderful and that Christians should be known for the fire in their souls, the wild-eyed Read More …