Description
Book SynopsisThis fresh collection of group readings and simple dramas based on stories from Scripture, together with meditations, story-telling methodology and an instructed Eucharist, will help church leaders design liturgy for children and grownups who worship together.
Trade Review"This book is theologically sound, practical, user-friendly, creative, and sensitive. It is a gift to the church, and to all who care deeply about the accessibility of worship, formation and scripture.”
—Kate Gillooly, President, National Association for Episcopal Christian Education Directors
Table of Contents1. Introductory Material: practical background and instruction about organizing and arranging intergenerational worship, with special emphasis on children's needs.
2. Seasonal Introductions: Themes and ideas for each liturgical season including collects, confessions, etc.
3. Congregational Readings: simple group readings of Scripture that engage both reader and people.
4. Meditations: Quiet, imaginative reflections on scripture, or water, or fire, that lead listeners deep inside themselves, even at worship.
5. Simple Dramas: Biblical stories in which characters speak for themselves (martha and Mar, Mary and Elizabeth, Elijah and Elisha, etc.) to the worshipers; some are quite playful and some are more serious.
6. Stories: biblical stories told very colorfully and simply, sometimes in the first person of a character in the story.
7. Simple Sermons: simple, colorful, soulful, short sermons that even grownups can sit still for.
8. Tableauxs Vivants: "Living Pictures"- how to do them, and several pieces written and staged.
9 Appendices: Methods of storytelling and An instructed Eucharist
