Worship For Everyone
Description
Multi-generational worship is important for most church leaders, worship teams, and children's workers - but how can you truly engage everyone so that all age worship can thrive in your church?
Worship for Everyone offers an inspiring vision crucial for bringing longevity and life to all age worship as well as a practical guide bursting with ideas and resources.
Nick and Becky Drake, pioneers in multi-generational worship ministry, provide a theology for bringing all ages together that draws on their years of experience. Alongside this they give advice and tips on running intergenerational worship sessions and dealing with the many challenges that face the church in producing meaningful all age worship.
Worship for Everyone contains all the resources pastors, children's workers and church leaders need to run all age worship services. Service plans, talks, recommended songs, Bible readings and more are all included, so you can make your all age worship engaging and significant for every generation.
This is a book for anyone with a heart to see new generations engaging with God.
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Persons
Nick and Becky Drake are widely recognised as leading practitioners and songwriters in the area of all-age worship. They have run Worship for Everyone as a ministry for over ten years, releasing a number of albums as well as running national conferences and training. They worship at Gas Street Church, where Nick is associate vicar.
Becky had a successful career in communications and PR in London before moving to Birmingham, where she now works as a school chaplain. She continues to lead worship and write songs under the Worship for Everyone banner. Nick is the author of A Deeper Note (Grove Books); is co-author of Why Worship?, the Spring Harvest Theme Book for 2021 (SPCK); and also teaches on worship through Worship Central and St Mellitus College, a training seminary for the Church of England. He recently completed his PhD in worship studies.
Content
Introduction
Part 1: The theory
1 Our story
2 Forming a vision for all-age worship
3 A theology of Worship for Everyone: Old Testament 26
4 A theology of Worship for Everyone: New Testament 37
5 What makes all-age worship so difficult? 50
6 What do children need?
Part 2: The practice
7 Using songs in all-age worship
8 Actions-why use them?
9 Delivering an all-age talk
10 Constructing an all-age service
11 Delivering Worship for Everyone online
12 Worship for schools
13 Next steps
Appendices
Appendix 1: Sample all-age talks
Appendix 2: A sample service plan and script
Appendix 3: Suggested songs by theme
