One of the things I love about my job is the opportunity to try out new ideas in some of my church services. Every month we have a Breakfast Club on a Sunday morning in place of our regular worship, which starts with food, then some songs, readings, and a short talk, then we do […]
Last spring I discovered a book by Renita Boyle called Gingerbread Nativity which is basically an instruction manual on how to make your own nativity set out of gingerbread biscuits. I bought it there and then, and spent the next few months looking forward to being able to use it. I decided that the best bet […]
We’ve had a weird few weeks in Toddler church leading up to half term. We were finishing up looking at the Bible Heroes we starting exploring last term, but there were a couple of odd sessions at the end of the term that we had to fill. We could have gone off and found some […]
We started our new term at Toddler Church in September, but I haven’t got into the habit yet of blogging what we’ve been doing each week. But this week had particularly good feedback, and took a little more preparation so I thought I’d just blog what we did. We were telling the story of Mary […]
This term we’ve started a series on Bible Heroes at Toddler Church, inspiration taken from the book Bible Heroes! by Eleanor Zuercher (Not Sunday, Not School). Eleanor used to run a youth event in my Mums parish called Acorns and Saplings. It was very similar to Messy Church, but before messy church took off, and […]
As our Toddler church journey through Easter has continued, one thing I’ve found difficult is thinking about how to talk about certain parts of it in a way that makes sense to Toddlers, and that isn’t going to scare them. The main problem has been this week, when we were looking at Good Friday. This […]
We’re continuing our journey towards Easter at Toddler church and this week have got to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. It feels really weird not being in the same place as the rest of the Church but the programme allows us to look at key parts of the Easter story each week. The hope […]
The main impetus to starting this blog was that I quite often spend ages finding things to do with my kids in church and get annoyed that there isn’t somewhere with all the good stuff in one place, so I decided that if I put on a blog the stuff that I find useful then […]
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