In your ministry to adults, ROOTS Adult & All Age helps you to nurture them in their journey of faith.
Find out how ROOTS Adult & All Age resources can support you in different situations and contexts, for example:
- planning and leading worship services
- running a Bible study group or homegroup
- ministering to the elderly or housebound
- leading cafe church.
Planning and leading worship services
Each week, ROOTS offers you a wealth of resources to help you plan and lead a worship service.
- Bible notes help you to prepare...
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...then select from a wealth of resources, grouped under Gather, Open the Word,
Explore & respond and Send out - mirroring the typical structure of a worship service...
- ... and, throughout, intersperse Prayers and suggestions for Hymns & songs.
The resources focus on one of the four Sunday lectionary readings.
Find out more about ROOTS and the lectionary
Bible notes
Gather
Open the Word
- Notes to set the biblical context of the readings before they are heard, plus ways of presenting the readings.
- On our website we also include a selection of the week's resources that you can use for a group Bible study.
Explore and respond to the Bible reading
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Sermon ideas
- All-age introduction - drawing our attention to an aspect of our lives that is relevant to what we'll hear in the Bible reading.
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Ideas for active worship that encourage personal reflection and participation, including thought-provoking images with questions for reflection
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PostScript: up-to-the-minute comment published each Thursday morning, linking the Bible passage to the week's news headlines.
Prayers
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A variety of prayers for different times within worship, freshly written by our contributors for each issue
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Published in English in both our magazines and online, and also in Welsh on our website.
Hymns & songs
- Ideas for hymns and songs - clearly marked so you can decide which are best for adults and which are more suited to all-age contexts.
Sending out
- Suggestions to encourage adults to live out their faith all through the week - including a Live your faith sheet that you can distribute by print or email. See an example of the weekly Live your faith sheet
Running a Bible study group or homegroup
The ROOTS resources include a range of materials that can be put together to plan and run a Bible study, either leading up to a service based on the reading or in the following week.
Each week, we put together a selection of the week's resources that you can use for a group Bible study. This can be printed off and used as it is, or modified to suit your situation.
See an example of a Bible study web page
Ministering to the elderly or housebound
The prayers and ideas for hymns and songs could be used when worshipping at home or when leading a service in a care home. Depending on the situation, you could also adapt the all-age conversation to create a talk or discussion - see an example: all-age conversation
Our weekly Simple worship activity provides an engaging way to respond to the Word - without requiring people to move around. Could you try it with people with restricted mobility?
Leading cafe church
Each week, we offer ideas for an all-age conversation and ideas for active worship - both of which are ideal for less formal contexts such as cafe church.
See examples: all-age conversation and active worship