Sowing Seeds is a creative and playful worship and Bible storytelling resource for babies, toddlers and young children.
Sowing Seeds aims to encourage participation, discipleship and leadership from children's earliest years, using storytelling, singing, repetition, art and sensory play and lots and lots of movement! Peer-learning is actively encouraged with many opportunities for young children to learn from each other.
Groups are invited to build their own Sowing Seeds sessions, choosing from different options. Leaders can use the resource in all sorts of ways, including to create a service that follows the pattern of their church's worship or a simple midweek baby and toddler singing session.
Key Features of Sowing Seeds: Encourages peer learning with opportunities for children to learn from one another. Build customised sessions to suit your group's needs, from mirroring Sunday worship patterns to simple midweek baby-and-toddler gatherings. Tailor sessions to fit your context, resources, and tradition.
What's Inside Book 2:
- 19+ Sessions: Organised into two units, covering Lent to Trinity Sunday.
- Step-by-Step Guidance: All the tools needed to set up and run Sowing Seeds in your group.
- Creative Ideas: Use everyday art and play materials to spark imagination and engagement in response to Bible stories.
The Units:
- The Journey to the Cross: A nine-week exploration through Lent and Holy Week.
- Jesus is Alive! Alleluia!: A ten-week celebration of Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday.
Previously known as Diddy Disciples, this resource invites leaders to nurture faith and creativity in young children through vibrant worship experiences.
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'Sowing Seeds is an invaluable blend of Sharon Moughtin's reflective practice and contemporary thinking about childhood spirituality. The result is an exceptional and inspiring resource for churches working with the very youngest children. A powerful case for seeing why the very young deserve the very best, and this is a well-tested method for doing that.' -- Dr Rebecca Nye, Godly Play expert and researcher and consultant in children's spirituality 'I'm excited by Sowing Seeds! It's a celebration of Psalm 8.2 and all that babies and toddlers bring to worship. Movement, stories, actions and songs combine in carefully crafted sessions to draw groups into a new way of worshipping that will enrich everyone involved. I can't wait to start using it.' -- The Revd Mary Hawes, former National Children and Youth Adviser, The Church of England 'Sowing Seeds is being taken up enthusiastically by a growing number of parishes in the Diocese of Southwark. Helping young children grow into the fullness of Christ through creative, age-appropriate engagement is a wonderful journey of adventure and discovery; and this book, which I gladly commend, will be an essential resource for anyone starting out on that path.' -- The Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Southwark 'Sowing Seeds is an invaluable resource that we use in school to support our collective worship and Religious Education curriculum with the youngest of pupils. It helpfully provides some background knowledge of theological concepts and Bible stories to support the staff leading the sessions. I would highly recommend this to schools as it is unlike any other resource we have found.' -- Kate Penfold-Attride, Headteacher, St Matthew's Church of England Primary School, Redhill 'Sowing Seeds is a gift to the church. Sharon Moughtin manages to combine sharp biblical insight, creative use of the liturgy, the immersive experience of storytelling, and a great deal of fun in a single resource. What you have here is a way to engage the children in your church, school or home with robust biblical scholarship, the lessons liturgy teaches without words, and an experience of worshipping God in community. Just be warned: you'll be humming the Sowing Seeds songs all week long.' -- The Revd Dr Casey Strine, Theological Adviser to the House of Bishops and Secretary for Theology 'This resource approaches worship and storytelling with reverence and joy! Children and leaders alike will learn from the liturgical intelligence, sensitivity and natural language of Sharon Moughtin's approach. An inspirational resource for all on the way of discipleship, including special attention to the new texts for baptism.' -- Dr Matthew Salisbury, National Liturgy and Worship, Church of England 'This is a flexible resource that acknowledges the importance and significance of enabling the youngest at church to engage in worship and begin a faith journey. The book not only offers ideas for a range of different settings and of personality and learning styles, but is also clearly built upon a theological and developmental understanding of children and faith. This is a resource that we will be using within our church setting, as we seek to engage and empower children from the youngest age in their understanding of God, faith, themselves and the world.' -- Steve Chalke, founder and leader, Oasis Global
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Höhe: 297 mm
Breite: 210 mm
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978-0-281-09091-4 (9780281090914)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sharon Moughtin (Author)
The Revd Dr Sharon Moughtin is the director of Sowing Seeds (previously named Diddy Disciples), which she started at St Peter's Church, Walworth, London. Sharon is an Anglican priest and a biblical scholar with a passion for education. @diddydisciples www.diddydisciples.org
Part One: Interactive Bible Storytelling
Introduction
The Journey to the Cross unit (Lent)
Jesus Gives Everything Up For Us (The Week before Lent)
Extra: Ash Wednesday
Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness (Matthew 4.1-11; Luke 4.3-13)
Jesus Enters Jerusalem (Matthew 21.1-11; Mark 11.1-10; Luke 19.28)
Jesus Cleans the Temple (Matthew 21.8-13; Luke 19.45-4)
Option One: The people in the Temple, they pray, pray, pray
Option Two: In Jerusalem.
Jesus Is Like a Mother Hen (Mothering Sunday, Luke 13: 34-35, Matt 23.37-39)
Mary Anoints Jesus (Mothering Sunday, John 3: 1-21)
Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet (John 13.1-17)
Option One: Washing Feet
Option Two: Servant King
Jesus' Last Meal (The Last Supper, Luke 22.14-23)
The Story of Love: The Story of the Cross (Good Friday)
Jesus is Alive! Alleluia unit (Easter)
Jesus Is Risen! Alleluia! (John 19.40-20.1a)
The Women's Story (John 20.1-10)
The Walk to Emmaus (Luke 24.13-35)
The Good Shepherd:
Option One: 'There was a once a little flock' (John 10.11-15)
Option Two: David the Shepherd King (1 Samuel 17:34-36)
Option Three: God's My Shepherd (1 Sam 17:34-36, Psalm 23)
Thomas's Story (John 20: 19-29)
The Catch of Fishes (John 21.1-14)
Peter's Story (John 18.15-27, 21.15-19)
The Ascension:
Option One: Jesus goes up! (Luke 24.42-53)
Option Two: You will tell the world about me! (Acts 1.8-14)
Come, Holy Spirit! (The Day of Pentecost, Acts 2.1-4)
1, 2, 3, the Trinity! (Trinity Sunday)
Part Two: Bible Storytelling with Babies and Toddlers only
Basic Structure
The Journey to the Cross unit (Lent)
The Journey to the Cross Songbox
'I am going to follow Jesus'
'Jesus came riding on a donkey'
'Love is stronger'
'When the king says...'
The Diddy Disciples footwashing song
'Do this to remember me'
Jesus is Alive! Alleluia! unit (Easter)
Jesus is Alive! Alleluia! Songbox
'He is risen, risen, risen!'
'On Easter Day in the morning'
'Back in Galilee'
'The Good Shepherd'
'Go! And wait for the Holy Spirit'
'Holy Spirit, come!'
Part Three: Creative Response Starter Ideas
Introduction
The Journey to the Cross Unit (Lent)
Story Starter Ideas
Sensory Starter Ideas (including for babies and toddlers)
Unit Starter Ideas
Jesus is Alive! Alleluia! Unit (Easter)
Story Starter Ideas
Sensory Starter Ideas (including for babies and toddlers)
Unit Starter Ideas
Part Four: The Building Blocks
Sowing Seeds Resources
Collage materials
Interesting media
Recipes
Photocopiable templates