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.  I can’t believe half-term is already upon us – where did the last 6 weeks go? I’ve been doing lots of writing, reading and admin and Ish has been very busy song writing. Ish’s choice of scriptures put to music never ceases to bless me and…

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.  As I mentioned last week, I retired from my job at Church House at the end of July. I then had to edit an academic book I am publishing with Palgrave Macmillan to meet a deadline for the end of August. Thankfully, we managed to fit…

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.  RETIREMENT ??? I retired from my employed work as Children’s and Family Adviser at Church House at the end of July with many happy memories of my 16 years there. Although, I have yet to retire completely as I am still enjoying my voluntary work as…

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.  I enjoy writing this blog on a Monday because we have just had Sunday! I don’t know about you, but I wake up every morning wishing there was some Good News to read about in ‘The News’. The world seems in turmoil and now with our…

In recent days of such sadness and mourning the last 2 weeks have revealed to the nation and to the whole world how important Her Majesty the Queen’s Christian faith was to her and how it sustained her through both sad and happy times. The Archbishop of Canterbury explained that before she took her coronation oaths she first knelt before the high altar in Westminster Abbey and prayed to God. Here are some of the Queen’s quotes about her faith. I hope we can all take strength from her amazing example of love and service to God and humanity. ‘The gift I would most value next year is that reconciliation…