Product Description

"Messy Church" aims to create the opportunity for people to have fun together and enjoy the experience of being part of the extended church family through a range of craft activities, storytelling, worship and simple homemade meals. Based on two-hour sessions for people of all ages, for each session the book includes: Bible reference and background, recipes for the meal, ten theme-related craft activities with suggested 'talk about' ideas, and an outline for the concluding act of worship. Session themes include: God's family: our family; Jesus' 'I am' sayings; Messy Christmas; New life; and, Bible landscapes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36122 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Lucy Moore is a professional actor and storyteller. She works for BRF as part of the Barnabas ministry team. A published writer, performer and creative arts director with a background in teaching languages, she makes use of lively original poetry, mime, storytelling, and a variety of drama workshop activities. Her work with BRF includes sharing the Bible with children through Barnabas Live and The Bible unplugged. Lucy is author of The Gospels unplugged, The Lord's Prayer Unplugged and Topsy Turvy Christmas, all published by BRF. She and her husband, Paul, have two children, Arthur and Judith. They belong to St Wilfrid's, Cowplain in Hampshire, where Paul is the minister.

Customer Reviews

Helpful
As someone who is part of the leadership team for monthly all age worship, I have found 'Messy Church', to be very help. There are clear instructions on how to produce a good enjoyable act of worship for all ages. And Yes at times it can be very Messy so be warned!

The 'Messy' grace to end the service on is helpful and looked forward to as all can learn from it.

This book gives everything - perhaps too much as I often to do feel that the worship is 'ours' but one just taken from a book. So we need to look at that.
A good buy.

An excellent book
Lucy Moore is renowned for her excellent resources for children through the Barnabas Trust and now through the idea of Messy Church has opened up a very fruitful way to explore church life and worship in the 21st century. The book explores the ideas behind Messy Church (in short providing a way for whole families to enjoyably get involved with church life and grow in faith) and then gives some practical worked out sessions to get people going. An excellent book.