Hi, on this page I will be sharing, reviewing, and recommending resources for children’s, family, and all-age, church-based work. I love to explore and discover new ideas, and creative ways of supporting this fantastic ministry. It’s such a privilege to serve the church and to help make worship meaningful and fun for children and families. I hope you’ll find my ideas and recommendations helpful.  At our Cathedral service yesterday the Gospel reading, that Ish read out beautifully by the way, was taken from Luke 13 where a woman who had been crippled for 18 years was healed by Jesus. Vanessa our Canon Treasurer followed this reading by preaching a brilliant…

Hi, on this page I will be sharing, reviewing, and recommending resources for children’s, family, and all-age, church-based work. I love to explore and discover new ideas, and creative ways of supporting this fantastic ministry. It’s such a privilege to serve the church and to help make worship meaningful and fun for children and families. I hope you’ll find my ideas and recommendations helpful.  Our birthdays fall within 3 weeks of each other in July and August, and we have reached that stage in life where we keep presents simple. We both have most of the material things we want in life and so the best gift we give to…

Hi Welcome to my weekly blog. On this page I will be sharing, reviewing, and recommending resources for children’s, family, and all-age, church-based ministry. I love to explore and discover new ideas, and creative ways of supporting this fantastic ministry. It’s such a privilege to serve the church and to help make worship meaningful and fun for children and families. I hope you’ll find my ideas and recommendations helpful.

I’ve been enjoying the lovely warm weather and especially my garden. These photos show some flowers and herbs that I have grown in my garden. Several years ago I discovered a great book called Planting a Bible Garden by Frank Nigel Hepper. He was an English research botanist who worked at Kew Herbarium. Hepper’s Christian faith combined with his botanical expertise, and his research studies inspired him to write about the botany of the Bible and the Holy Land and he travelled around that region extensively. He designed the Bible Garden at St George's Cathedral, Jerusalem. His book illustrates lots of different flowers, plants and herbs that are mentioned in the…

Hi, on this page I will be sharing, reviewing, and recommending resources for children’s, family, and all-age, church-based ministry. I love to explore and discover new ideas, and creative ways of supporting this fantastic ministry. It’s such a privilege to serve the church and to help make worship meaningful and fun for children and families. I hope you’ll find my ideas and recommendations helpful.