all-age church workshop slides

7/27/2019 All-Age Church Workshop Slides

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What have been your bestexperiences of all-age worship?


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ALL-AGECHURCH


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children are part oftodays church


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children benefit from seeingtheir parents worship


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children learn from seeingother people worship


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Our children benefit greatly by

being in the presence of Christians

of various ages. They are able to

see that the faith of their parents is

not a faith that they own alone,but is a faith that is important to all

of these people who are gathered

around them on Sunday morning.

Jason Helopoulus


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children learn to pray byhearing prayers


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children learn fromthe songs


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If attending church for years has

always meant colouring Bible

pictures, singing songs to a CD,

playing games, and doing crafts

then we should not be surprisedthat our young people find

worship to be odd, uncomfortable,

and even boring.

Jason Helopoulus


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Principles


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Aims of all-ageworship


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to enable the whole churchfamily to worship God together


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to learn together in order togrow in our discipleship


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The biggest challenge is to

communicate the concept in thesimplest way possible, while

remaining true to the theology.


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Values of all-ageworship


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1.BIBLE-CENTRED


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teach the Bible not our ideas


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dig deep


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single key idea


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learning objectives


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Everything should

be made as simple

as possible, but notsimpler.

Albert Einstein


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Do I really understand this passage

well enough that I can accurately

express its central idea in words

that a five-year old can

understand?


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danger of over-familiarity


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dealing with themes


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2.INCLUSIVE


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important that church family isall together at times


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child-friendly not childish


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variety of learning styles


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accessible to visitors


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3.TEAM-DRIVEN


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teams spread the load


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teams are more creative


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teams give better perspective


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Leadership team

member Bible teacher

Musician Childrens person

Youth person

Older person

Parent of young

children Parent of

teenagers

Someone without

children

Tech person


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brainstorm ideas


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decide big idea


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understand the passage


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identify learning objectives


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allocate responsibilities


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invite participants


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Practicalaspects


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Meeting the needs ofdifferent age groups


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email parents


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pre-service puzzle/question


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O P R S T U


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Look up this verse in the Bible and fillin the gaps while youre waiting.

I am the _____; you are the

_______. If you remain in me and Iin you, you will bear much ______;

apart from me you can do ______.

John 15:5


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ENGAGING THE SENSES


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How can we engage the whole

congregation through differentsenses?


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visual elements


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Image by Jason Ramasami saamvisual.com


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Goliath


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practical involvement


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instruments


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movement


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ENGAGING THE MIND


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opening Bibles


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joining-in prayers


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The angel said, Today your

saviour was born, He is Christ theLord.

Glory to God in the highest!


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Were sorry when we make

Christmas just about our fun.

But thank you that in Jesus wecan be forgiven.



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Were sorry when we pretend to

be good in what we say, think

and do.Thank you that you came to

rescue us and change us.



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Thank you that you came in to

our world as a baby.

Thank you that you lived aperfect life.



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Thank you that you died on

a cross.Then you rose from the dead.



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Thank you that you are now inheaven.

And we look forward to the day

that you will return.Glory to God in the highest!

And on earth peace to those on

whom his favour rests.

Amen.


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being careful with language


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asking questions


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writing/drawing/making

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Wte a prayer which includes

thank you, soy, and please.


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What were the

10 plaes?

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What are some of the things God has given us?

Which ones are we tempted to love more than God?

What are the things which help us remember Gods love?

What things might get in they

of us loving God?

The sto of Gods

love changes peoples

lives. How do do we

te it to others?

Show it in our _ _ _ _ _

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Ask people to _ _ _ _ _ _

Love the _ _ _ _ your _ _ _ with a your _ _ _ _ _ and

with a your _ _ _ _ and with a your _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .Deuteronomy 6:5

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The Father hassent his Son tobe the saviour

of the .1 John 4:14


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ENGAGING TEENAGERSAND ADULTS


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How can we engage teenagers

and adults so that they dontswitch off in all-age worship?


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youth

men

women

older people

singles

families


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music


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participation


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opt-out clause


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relevance


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TIMING


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pacing


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bangs and fizzles


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TECHNOLOGY


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media sources


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copyright


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media quality


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technical checks


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technical running order


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FEEDBACK


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Resources


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