Tracey and Pam, our editors, guide you through the highlights
of current and forthcoming issues. Plus links to highlights of issues in the archive.
May/June 2024
In Adult & All Age journey with us alongside the new Christian community in Acts as we come to the end of the Easter season. After Pentecost and Trinity, we return to Ordinary Time and continue our exploration of the Old Testament. We focus on the intertwined and dramatic stories of Samuel and David, both called from humble beginnings to serve God.
Father’s Day this year takes place on 16 June, which is also close to the start of the European Football Championships. Many footballing heroes will be taking to the pitch in the Euros and dads are often heroes within their families. In our all-age resource True Heroes, football fan Gill Page offers some hero-themed ideas and activities to help you engage all generations, both from within and outside your church community.
AI is having an increasing impact on all our lives, even in football, and there are implications for churches too. In The AI invasion: Preparing for a new era, technology expert James Poulter explores some of the potential benefits as well as highlighting some of the things we might need to be concerned about.
We continue our Bread & Wine Holy Communion resources, with prayers linked to the themes of this issue: Being filled with the Holy Spirit and Being led by God, to enable you to put together all-age Communion services linked to the Roots weekly material. Within this provision, Darren Philip considers how you can incorporate elements that cater for all spiritual styles in your Communion service.
And finally, if you’ve ever asked (or been asked!) tricky questions about the Trinity, you might want to check out our ‘Discovering God: Three is a magic number’ resource.
And in Children & Youth, we complete our Acts of the Apostles series and commence our coverage of the King David and Solomon lectionary passages. We’re delighted to bring you these brand new sessions which are sure to engage children and young people and help them develop their understanding of the big picture of the Bible.
There’s also a new drama for older children and teens, The big task, exploring the story of David and Goliath.
We’re excited to share our new Youth resource: Pentecost Escape Room. it’s been great fun creating an escape room scenario, and we hope your young people enjoy completing the challenges to discover more about the start of the early church, as much as our test youth group did!
We’re mindful that it’s exam season for many children and young people – take a look at Under pressure, an article about supporting children’s mental health. And don’t forget to prioritise your own well-being – it’s very easy to put ourselves last when we’re serving God and others, which is not the best model for our children and young people to follow!
We hope these resources will help to ease the load, as well as inspire you and those you work with to flourish in faith.
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