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For a FREE SAMPLE COPY of the ROOTS magazine, phone 0845 680 5317 or email with your postal address and which magazine you are interested in.

'You are witnesses' – a service to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with all ages together: follow this link to download the pdf of this service.

ROOTS: Essential resources for worship preparation

ROOTS is a flexible resource for churches today, designed to meet the needs of churches in the 21^st century, and offering material that can easily be adapted to suit a wide range of patterns and styles of worship and learning.

ROOTS is structured around the Revised Common Lectionary. Each week, ROOTS offers a common thread in the materials across the age range and over both the magazines, so that everyone will have the opportunity to explore the same thread.

ROOTS is ecumenical in process, development and production. The material has been shaped by feedback from ROOTS users in all roles in worship and learning in their churches, and advice from leading practitioners across the denominations.

As its name suggests, ROOTS Adult & All Age provides resources for adult worship and for when all ages worship together.  ROOTS Children & Young People seeks to resource learning and worship with children from about age 3 to about age 11, and young people from 11 to about 16. In both magazines there is plenty of choice: this is not a single programme of the 'one size fits all' kind. On the ROOTS website, you will find supplementary resources, downloadable templates and a Children's sheet for parents and children. Follow the links for more information.

But the best way to find out how ROOTS can help you to help your church is to try it for yourself!

Introductory Information: general sampler   We offer two ways of seeing ROOTS material for yourself. Our newest 'sampler', which explains ROOTS Children & Young People, is available by clicking the image on the right; it carries the resources for the week of 14 March 2010 with an introduction to ROOTS and helpful labels on CYP resources that will help you to understand what's what. We suggest this as the best option for those who are completely new to ROOTS CYP.

If you would like to see a sampler that includes ROOTS Adult & All Age, follow this link. It relates to a week in November 2009 but will allow you to see how the magazines work together as well as how you might use AAA on its own.

Sample week   Or, if you simply want to view a sample week with the latest design and materials, click on the appropriate thumbnail image below to download the pdf file for the magazine you want. It also relates to the week of 14 March 2010, but does not have the comment 'bubbles' that are in the samplers. You will need Acrobat Reader as the sampler and the pages from ROOTS are in pdf format.

If you are having difficulty downloading these files – or if you would simply prefer – email with your postal address and a brief request and we will send you a copy of the 12-page sampler described above. Or send for sample copies of the magazines: see the information at the top of the page.