Worship & Liturgy
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The Children’s Sermon: Forming Adults to Teach the Faith
Children’s Sermons offer church leaders the opportunity to teach and reach both children and their parents, forming Christians as much by how we teach as by the content of our instruction.
New Beginnings, New Challenges: Recognizing Excitement, Anxiety, & Everything In Between When Blessing Backpacks
New beginnings bring new challenges. These backpack blessings recognize the excitement, anxiety, and other big emotions that students have as a new school year begins.
Pew Cards: 4 Approaches to Communicating “Children Welcome”
A pew card is one option for clearly communicating that your community wants children present during worship. Here are a few approaches to consider.
Cookie Church: Training Worship Leaders Can Be Meaningful & Fun!
Cookie Church is an opportunity to experiment with the many roles children can take in leading worship.
Gathering, Blessing and Sending Forth with Paperless Music for All Ages
There are many advantages to paperless music. These songs can be used any time, any place, without preparation or printing — all you need is a leader with a song they know “by heart” and the willingness to sing. These songs allow people to be fully present without worrying about finding page numbers or hitting exact notes. This type of music is wonderful for children, older adults, and intergenerational gatherings because you do not have to be able to read or see well in order to participate. It’s also easy to include gestures, steps, or even moving around the space to paperless singing.
Saying Goodbye to Pets
Whether we are five, fifty-five, or one hundred and five, a pet can become an incredibly significant part of our life. The love that we share with our pets is a gift from God. And when these relationships change because of death, it is appropriate to mark this change with ritual.
Prayers for Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days
We want to celebrate mothers and fathers, and yet, we recognize that for some these days can be painful and difficult.
Webinar: Speaking to the Whole Room—Tips on Intergenerational Preaching
Resources for the webinar “Speaking to the Whole Room: Tips on Intergenerational Preaching” with presenters Mark Jefferson and Sarah Bentley Allred, hosted by Sarah Stonesifer.
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