Worship
Praise All Your Days! - Pack
(Planning worship for all ages together)
A training session designed for those working with children in the parish context and those involved in planning and leading all-age worship,
Aims
to consider good practice in all-age worship
to increase awareness of the structure of the Communion service
to increase awareness of the potential of 'Common Worship'
to engage in a group planning process and share experience and insights with others
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Praise All Your Days! - Service Plans
'Praise All Your Days' was a training session designed to give anyone interested in producing truly 'all-age worship' the opportunity to meet with others and share in a planning process. All-age worship is not 'something special put on for the children', but worship in which engages people of any age, from which they can be fed, and through which they can praise. These service plans comprise an outline for an act of worship. Each outline is designed with a particular occasion of the Church Year in mind, but many of the ideas are 'non-seasonal' and can be used in other settings.
Let Us Pray
A session looking at creative and participatory ways of praying with children
Aims
to formulate some principles of good practice in prayer for all ages
to relate some established forms of spirituality to children’s prayer
to explore some children’s prayer activities
to share experiences of successful prayer activities for children
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Feast - service idea
Feast - presidential text service using Common Worship
'Feast' was the 2006 diocesan Communion service for 11-14-year-olds, designed by the diocesan Children's and Youth Officers and held in Manchester Cathedral. This document gives the presidential text used and notes of the activities that formed part of the service. The theme of 'Feast' was the communion service itself and the aim was to explore some of the significance of this 'holy meal'.
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Worship ideas for a Common Worship, Order One Service of Holy Communion
Gifted
'Gifted' was the 2007 diocesan Communion service for 11-14-year-olds, designed by the diocesan Children and Youth Officers and held in Manchester Cathedral.
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Pressured
'Pressured' was the 2008 diocesan Communion service for 11-14-year-olds, designed by the diocesan Children's and Youth Officers and held in Manchester Cathedral.
