The Hand-in-Hand children’s and family ministries conference has speakers with a combined expertise of about 800 years! A weekend packed full of the latest thinking, resource ideas and practical tips. Including sessions for Junior Leaders (and half price tickets for under 21s), a Messy Church stream and a special programme for primary school teachers to… [Continue Reading]
New product coming soon!
8 January 2012 By Leave a Comment
Now you might have thought our new addition to our family might have rendered GodVenture on pause, and to a great extent that’s true. But Pause isn’t the same as stop and the ideas haven’t stopped, so nor have the products! Launching in February are a new set of cards called Prayer GodVenture52. For those… [Continue Reading]
Frosty prayers
1 January 2012 By Leave a Comment
When you see a beautiful frost covered spider’s web which makes you think ‘Wow!’, say that wow prayer (also called praise) to God. You could go on a walk on a frosty day (on the way to school?) and see how many wow prayers you can say. You might like to take photos of… [Continue Reading]
Satsuma prayers
1 January 2012 By Leave a Comment
One of the things I love about late Autumn and Winter are satsumas. I eat loads of them so I thought it would be a good idea to have a way to pray while I indulge. So here’s a prayer idea using satsumas It’s dead simple: Pray for a different person as you eat each segment…. [Continue Reading]
Love these
14 December 2011 By 2 Comments
I think I spotted these last year, but can’t resist them this year. It would be fun to tell the nativity story using them, although it is a little strange having Jesus inside a donkey! And why is the angel so small? Anyway! A nice little set I reckon. Available from John Lewis in the… [Continue Reading]
Excited about creative prayer seminar
8 December 2011 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday I started the process of putting together a seminar on creative prayer for Hand in Hand conference with Rachel Warwick from Orison and Dare2engage. The conference is in Feb, so we’re working on a super-special-seminar featuring ideas for praying with children at home, at school and at church. Yesterday we met up and had… [Continue Reading]
Advent wreath prayers
30 November 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you have some candles, you can create your own home Advent ritual, lighting one candle in the first week of Advent, two in the second and so on up til Christmas. If you can get your hands (carefully!) on some holly, you could make a simple wreath around your candles too. Light your candles… [Continue Reading]
Just for fun nativity
30 November 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ok, so I LOVE nativity sets, but here’s a selection which you may not have seen… and may wish you hadn’t once you have! What’s your nativity set like?
Make your own Advent pockets calendar
21 November 2011 By Leave a Comment
I looked everywhere for one of these, and found some good value ones in TK Max. Make your own ‘fillers’, especially if you want something which helps children explore the Christmas story over the 24 or 25 days. Here’s some ideas of what you could fill your pockets with (and don’t forget a sweet might… [Continue Reading]
A Christmas Family GodVenture in Thailand
19 November 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last year, the Jackson family were in Thailand over Christmas and so took their Christmas Family GodVenture book with them. Here they are on a tropical island with it.
