Children and Families - Scripture Union NZ

We have created six key workshops that are foundational for anyone new to children's ministry. These are additional resources that go alongside these workshops. BEING OUR BEST Positive Discipline tools for teachers - a great general website with lots of practical advice.   'It's the hidden disabilities that keep kids out of church' - this article contains lots of links to resources, and focuses specifically on the church environment. Discipling Neurodiverse Children: Supporting Who God Made Them to Be - this online course is well worth looking at. PRAYER ZONE Activity cards: One Word Prayer Card Hamburger Prayers Card Prayer Dice Card Wikki Prayers Labyrinths ( Finger and Floor ) Fishscale prayers Thank you - catch and toss Pray for Schools Card   ‘It is Night’ Anglican Prayer Book Card Websites: Praying in Colour Methodist Church (UK) free digital prayer cards FAITH FORMATION Resources: It's just a Phase Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus   Faith forma...

These are the resources from the 'In the Footsteps of Paul' workshop at WAY2GO 2017. Map of Corinth: http://www.cwr.org.uk/cover2cover  Photographs: Corinth The Lechion Way (The Main Street) The Main Street Shops Temple of Apollo The Forum The Bema Philippi The River The Church to remember Lydia The Corinthian Church: Who is in the church?  Lydia: The story script  Check out this page for more detail: By the Riverside First Century Roman Coins Websites: www.bible.ca/maps www.windowintothebible.com/a-photo-tour-of-corinth www.bibleplaces.com The River in Lydia, Philippi

We want to help you ou t this Christmas Season. We have put toge ther a four part series of fabulous Ch ristmas ideas. Click here to read out first instalment ( Christmas Music) . T his blog post is dedicated to all things crafty!   Are you looking for a Nativity Sc ene craft? Look no further: Le t me begin with one of the most fabulous nativity scenes on o ffer. It's created right here in New Zealand! And it's free!  Check ou t the Strandz website for this and much much more: http://www.strandz.org.nz/advent--christmas.html Here's another nativity scene that took New Zealand by storm in 2015! It is a 3D model , that looks a little mine craft (if you don't get this reference don't worry, but it is a bit of a craze right now) , a little blokheadz.It is free to download. All you have to do is print i t out and fold it up. You can go straight to the source: mylittlehouse.com   Here's on e I made earlier... easy! I found double sided ta pe...

I am not a trekkie. They are a rare and special tribe of people. Maybe you are one, or you live in the same house as one. A trekkie? Someone who is more than a little obsessed with the TV series, Star Trek.  Star Trek has one famous line that is known even by us trekkie ignorants:  'Resistance is Futile'   The question is: I s it true?   Resistance is the word given to that which slows you down, to opposition or disagreement or pressure . Resistance can be frustrating, demoralising and depressing... but is it futile?   I would like to suggest that while it is unco mfor table, resistance is necessary. Resistance tells us that change i s in the air.  Where change is , there we will find resistance. So, if we want our ministry with children to gr ow and develop than resist ance is to be expected. It's how we know we are moving. If there is no resistance it may well mean we are at a stand still .   So, if you are fac ing res istance...

  Here are two great resources for exploring Pentecost Sunday!  Church-based Children's Programme: If you are planning to explore the story of Pentecost in your children's programme than this little resource might be just what you are looking for. It includes story ideas, using a bull roarer ( a wooden disk on the end of a string ), eating grapes and much much more! (For more on taonga puoro, Maori musical instruments, click here ). Thanks to Bex Davies for sharing her programme outline with us. You can download it for free from our dropbox by clicking here! All Age Service resource: Pentecost Sunday is a great opportunity to get creative, to be joyful and to learn a little church history! In preparing for an All Age service for Pentecost Sunday, I made a rather inspiring discovery, Holy Spirit Holes! In the ceilings of some cathedrals are these holes, trapdoors actually. During the celebration of Pentecost, live doves and red rose petals were dropped through these ...