Valentine's Day
Digital download: A reflection and resources for Valentine’s Day, focusing on a broader interpretation of what it represents. Includes two finger labyrinths to use as tools for reflection. 11 pages.
Healing
A series of images and poems about moving from anxiety and depression to hope, trust and the ability to relate to the world again. Little Guy journeys with us.
Digital download: A set of worship items for evening time that could be used by a family or a group. Includes simple songs/chants, psalms, prayers and ways of remembering the Bible. 5 pages.
Healing
A series of images and poems about moving from anxiety and depression to hope, trust and the ability to relate to the world again. Little Guy journeys with us.
Digital download: An all-age song for Easter Sunday, words only, to be sung to the tune of ‘This old man’. 2 pages.
Maundy Thursday
Digital download: A reflective Tenebrae service that can be used with all ages from 9 years upwards, during which candles are extinguished to symbolise how Jesus was abandoned by everyone on the night before his death. 9 pages.
Digital download: An act of remembrance and a sermon for Transgender Day of Remembrance, plus some extra resources. Taken from the book Transgender Christian Human. 17 pages.
The life story (so far) of Alex Clare-Young, the first out transgender minister in the United Reformed Church. Includes resources and activities to encourage individuals and groups to explore the subject of gender identity.
The life story (so far) of Alex Clare-Young, the first out transgender minister in the United Reformed Church. Includes resources and activities to encourage individuals and groups to explore the subject of gender identity.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A dialogue/drama script involving humans, God and plenty of sheep, giving an alternative view of Christmas and life in general. 6 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: Prayers and poems by and for children. Whether you're a kid or a kid at heart, we hope you'll find them helpful, comforting, moving, entertaining, fun. 38 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: All-age resources for baptisms and for celebrating 'Baptismas' ('Like Christmas; only for Baptism'). School chaplain Janet Lees thinks that church is generally far too predictable and delights in creating, along with her pupils, new approaches to old themes. 9 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: A poem and a prayer for Ascension and some suggested all-age activities, prayers and songs for Pentecost. 4 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A thoughtful service for Good Friday featuring seven voices dispersed among the congregation. 7 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: A selection of resources for Lent and Easter for children and young people, arising from the work of Janet Lees as Chaplain of Silcoates School, Wakefield. Janet uses her own 'remembered Bible' method to help people reclaim the Bible as their own. 24 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A resource for Advent and Christmas especially for those working with young people or children in a school, community or church setting - but also full of lively prayers, sketches and ideas for anyone looking to break out of a rut by using 'the remembered Bible'. 31 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for children and all-age worship which has emerged from the composer's work with young people and has been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. Sheet music and words - 2 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for children and all-age worship which has emerged from the composer's work with young people and has been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. Sheet music and words - 2 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for children and all-age worship which has emerged from the composer's work with young people and has been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. From the 'Every Single Creature' collection. Sheet music and words - 2 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for children and all-age worship which has emerged from the composer's work with young people and has been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. Sheet music and words - 3 pages.
Sheet music download: Four catchy songs for children and all-age worship which have emerged from the composer's work with young people and have been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. Sheet music and words - 9 pages. Also available as individual songs.
Advent & Christmas
PowerPoint download: An evening liturgy for the darkest time of the year, looking forward to the coming of the light of Christ. 15 slides.
Advent & Christmas
Combined PDF and PowerPoint download: An evening liturgy for the darkest time of the year, looking forward to the coming of the light of Christ. 6 pages/15 slides.
Advent & Christmas
PDF download: An evening liturgy for the darkest time of the year, looking forward to the coming of the light of Christ. 6 pages. Also available as a PowerPoint download.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Beyond the Baggage of Fatherhood: A liturgy for Father’s Day (PDF download)
Digital download: A liturgy for Father's Day, including two songs. The Bible is an uneasy place to find out about fathers - stories of human failure and frailty abound. Yet Joseph does not abandon Mary when he finds out that she is mysteriously pregnant - And Jesus dares to call God 'Father'. Repeatedly. - What if fathering has a future beyond the bounds of patriarchal oppression? 8 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Beyond the Baggage of Fatherhood: A liturgy for Father’s Day (PDF+PPT download)
Digital download: A liturgy for Father's Day, including two songs. The Bible is an uneasy place to find out about fathers - stories of human failure and frailty abound. Yet Joseph does not abandon Mary when he finds out that she is mysteriously pregnant - And Jesus dares to call God 'Father'. Repeatedly. - What if fathering has a future beyond the bounds of patriarchal oppression? PDF+PowerPoint download.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: Short responses, meditations and Bible readings on giving and receiving at Christmas. Suggested songs are from We Walk His Way and Come All You People songbooks by John L Bell. 6 pages.