July is Bible Month. Bible Month is a great time to encourage children to read the Bible. Choose any Sunday or every Sunday in July to celebrate and explore the Bible with children. The Big Little Bible produced by The Bible Society of NZ can be purchased
Read more →I’ve just re-read Hamish Galloway’s 2013 sabbatical report “Empowering the next generation – young adults and the church”. I felt compelled to return to this report in the hope that it would add a local perspective to my bulging “kite” of research on intergenerational church . I want
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Kids Friendly, Baptists, Anglicans and Scripture Union have created a Children’s Ministry Network. This means there will now be more opportunities for ALL children’s ministry leaders to encourage and learn from each other. Join the Children’s Ministry Network and receive notification of training and networking opportunities in your region. Find
Read more →Being “Kids Friendly” means extending a warm welcome to all God’s children of all ages and abilities. To help our churches reflect on how effectively they welcome children (and adults) with disabilities, we asked Antonia Hay, mother of Max, to describe her experience of church and to
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The act of becoming a Christian is the actual practicing of being Christian over and over again,” says Ivy Beckwith. This can happen to some extent at church in a weekly ‘feast’, but is far more effective when practised in homes, every day of the week (daily bread).
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The early followers of Jesus Christ were called the people of “the Way.” They were known for the way they lived, not only for what they believed. Christians were associated with a discernible way of living and relating that grew out of their faith and gave testimony
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