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The Spiritual Child Network:
Celebrating children's spirituality, their insights, experiences, gifts and questions. Discovering ways we can travel alongside children on our shared Christian journey of faith. Providing support, ideas and resources for those involved in children's ministry within a Christian context. What's new:Symbols, Signs, Worship and Mr Tumble:Steve and Kate Gaze share the story of their son Joe who has Down's Syndrome, their introduction to signing in worship and how Joe now leads the congregation in signing and singing... Click hereSacred Space: Creating a Quiet Room:How one church contributed to their local school's Health Promoting Week by creating a "Quiet Room". Click hereGodly Play in school:What can Godly Play offer to children in a school setting? How does Godly Play in school differ from Godly Play in a church setting? Click hereEvents:Makaton signing in worshipThere are still spaces left for this training day on Saturday 12th May at Hardwick near Cambridge. We highly recommend this day for anyone working with special needs, younger children or All Age Worship. Click here. Seasonal Material:PentecostPentecost Prayer describes using a Pentecost prayer tree and other materials to create a prayer focus. Pentecost focus has ideas for creating a worship focus for Pentecost. Special Focus: Liturgy BoxesLiturgy Boxes are boxes of objects, books and symbols that are specially put together to help young children join in worship.For the thinking behind Liturgy Boxes Click here. For suggestions of what to put in a Liturgy Box Click here and for an account of how one child made her own Lord's Prayer in symbols Click here |
