Children's & Youth Resources

Here are 100 adaptable discussion starters. A brief story, usually factual, is followed by a series of provocative questions. 100 double-page spreads contain a story on the left-hand page and questions on the right. Stories explore a topic pertinent to young people, e.g. drugs, truancy, parental relationships; or an important biblical concept, e.g. giving, the afterlife, love.

Changing Lives covers everything you need to know about working with children and families - the why to, the how to, the when to, and the where to. Mark Griffiths looks at the history, theology, and practice of ministry with children and families.

120 instant Bible games for Sunday schools and midweek groups, Ideal for 4-11s

52 short talks designed for use by church service leaders.

'Story Assemblies for the School Year' marks a second year's worth of assembly material, packed with interactive stories to delight your local primary schools.

Containing a wealth of easy-to-do instant craft ideas and non-craft based activities, this title is suitable for those with special needs. It offers ideas that include suggestions to inspire further exploration of the craft technique.

Created for Messy Church leaders who are planning the celebration aspect of their Messy Church session, this title clarifies the purpose and key elements of the celebration time, and equips the team both spiritually and practically to lead this part of the Messy Church session.

This revised edition of 'Core Skills' draws on new material and ideas developed by trainers who have been successfully using it for the past six years. 'Core Skills' is an interdenominatianal modular scheme and offers foundatioal training for all those involved with chuch-based children's ministry. It addresses the key areas of expertise set out by the DFES in the Common Core of Skills & Knowled

Welcome to ‘Messy Church 3’ – the family-friendly resource kit! Lead these 15 sessions in your group, focused around teaching children and adults how to live a Christian life.

Overflowing with creative ideas to draw the community together for fun, food, fellowship and worship, this resource book contains 15 themed programme outlines. Each outline has ideas for creative art and craft activities, meal plans and recipes for eating together and family-friendly worship.

Give your children’s work an exciting boost without exhausting your children’s workers. A Sunday or midweek resource for 3-11s

In this book Pete Maidment and Barry Brand provide over 50 new activities for Messy Church sessions, carefully crafted to appeal to male as well as female participants at Messy Church.

Want to make services engaging for children and adults alike? Want to make presenting the Bible fun? Want to use the skills of the people in your church to create an exciting service? Want to challenge people to think about familiar Bible stories in fresh ways? Think your listeners would enjoy something a little different sometimes? Then this book is for you!

This short, easy-to-read manual is designed to equip and encourage Primary RE teachers.

Ideas for discipling a Christ-centred community

Eight story-based workshop days to help primary schools deliver high quality cross-curricular RE supported by their local churches

Paper plate crafts is a great resource fot fun crafts that trach favourite Bible stories in any setting. Fast, inexpensive and readily available,paper plates easily become masks, mobiles, puppets and plaques. The finished crafts are an ingenious way to reinforce Bible stories and themes.

This resource aims to introduce, explain and explore the Christian faith, providing familiarity with the Bible story and context for widely used references in popular culture such as David and Goliath, the great flood or the good Samaritan.

This book is a mine of inspiration for ways of praying for and in Messy Church. Finding engaging ways of praying as individuals, families and as the gathered congregation is always a challenge, and this book brings together many different ideas for doing all of these.

This resource provides 36 Bible-story based sessions designed for use with under fives in a church context.