Provides over 50 activities for Messy Church sessions, carefully crafted to appeal to male as well as female participants at Messy Church. This book offers approaches for Messy Churches to engage men and boys in an intentional way, providing inspiration for creating a Messy Church that men and boys will love to be part of.

Fully revised and expanded new edition'Extreme Mess... is the world ready for this? I am!' Lucy Moore, founder of Messy ChurchBarry Brand and Pete Maidment offer 80 activities for Messy Church sessions. Featuring sections on Big Stuff, Construction, Science, Arty and Edible Crafts, this book provides inspiration for creating a Messy Church that everyone will love to be part of.

This book is a craft book with a difference! As well as bulging with craft ideas to inspire your creativity at Messy Church, it is also a journal to scribble in, doodle on and generally make your own.The intention is that it will become a scrapbook of conversations, messy moments and prayers - a part of everyday life at home where you can sketch in your own ideas, list useful websites, make notes, reflect on spiritual moments, and journal your Messy Church journey.

A further title in the popular and attractive Learn series, this is written for youth leaders, children’s workers, ministers, elders, Sunday school teachers, leaders of uniformed organisations and lay volunteers. It aims to help them explore ways in which they can develop ministry with children and young people in their churches and communities. Experienced youth and children’s workers from a wide variety of contexts offer insight and practical guidelines across an wide variety of topics: Part One: Being Church Together focuses on children and young people and the church community, the Bible, baptism and communion, inter-generational ministry Part Two: Leadership Explores pastoral care, family issues, mental health problems, being an effective leader, reaching and keeping volunteers, developing leadership in children and young people Part Three: Mission and Discipleship looks at faith formation in children and young people, chaplaincy, Fresh Expressions of children’s and youth work, children and young people in social action and in world mission. Learn: Children and Young People has three key emphases: • the importance of thinking theologically • the importance of including children and young people in the community of faith • the importance of skilled and effective leadership Attractively illustrated throughout and enlivened by actual stories of local projects, this is an essential volume for all involved in working with children and young people.

An introduction to the increasingly popular topic of children's spirituality, showing how choices made in churches and homes can stimulate or stifle a child's spiritual development. Suitable for anyone who works with children.

New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.