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Cut out all the pages from the atlas (as neatly as you like it) and puzzle all the pieces together on the floor (this can be trickier than it sounds, as the maps can be slightly different scale on different pages – just do your best!). Once you’ve matched it...

Print the PDF containing 24 worship phrases from the psalms, and cut them out. Fold the phrases up and stick in balloons, which you inflate (for best result with helium). Attach the balloons to different places in your worship space (creates a great celebration atmosphere as people arrive). In the...

In the mingling before the service, send someone out to greet as many people as possible. Let this person put on some – expensive is best! – perfume on their hands. Later on in the service, ask people to smell their hands – they might be surprised to find them smelling...

This is a confession station, based on the story of the woman caught in adultery. Place sandpit in a suitable place with twig and water jug next to it. Print out instruction sheet and Bible passage sheet and display over or next to sand pit. Stick Bible passage sheet 2 on...

Put pens and paper under chairs/pews in your worship area before people arrive. Before you start a time of sung worship, encourage people to write down short testimonies of what God has done in their life this week (keep the pieces of paper small, and the testimonies will be short!),...

This is a worship idea that helps us come together as a Church, bringing our personal thoughts to God and yet at the same time creating something larger together. In preparation before the worship time, choose an image that fits your theme, and draw an outline of this image on the...

This is a powerpoint that can be used in a large congregation, but also in small groups or individually. It aids us in giving our burdens to God, and uses actions to help us focus our prayers. The powerpoint could work in the beginning of a service, as a means...

Here's a tip off about a fun tool that I found on the Internet a while back. Xtranormal.com lets you make simple animations quickly, that you can publish on You Tube (and from there, you can use www.keepvid.com to save the video on your computer). Here's a film giving you...

Like us, you probably spend time either lamenting the lack of creative and interesting backgrounds for word projection in church, or searching the Internet for high quality, copyright free pictures. The quickest way to avoid the puppies-and-sunsets syndrome in church is of course to take your own pictures. This way...

This is a simple idea for 'unfinished worship' - getting people to interact and participate in the leading of worship in a safe, pressure-free way.  Ask people to open their Bibles at the Psalms, then sing a simple, celebratory song.  After you've sung it for a few minutes, invite people...

These are six prayer stations we used at the WorshipConnect "Emerging Worship" lab.  Our theme was the 'Word of God', so you might find them particularly helpful on Bible Sunday (25th October 2009 - see www.biblesunday.org for other material), or on a day when you are focusing on scripture.  If...

Instead of focussing on death towards the end of October, let's focus on the lives of the saints that have gone before us. All Saints' Day is traditionally marked on the 1st of November, but whether your church is traditional or not, you will hopefully find this meditation helpful. The idea...

This is a reflective Bible study on the themes of Epiphany; the Magi and the Star of Bethlehem. It was written for my mum's small group, and we're never in shape for anything too difficult on a Wednesday morning, so the discussion questions aren't too complex. Part of the reflection...

These stations are specifically created for young people, and we've made them for our youth worship training day this Saturday. We wanted to teach those young people who are involved in worship in their churches, to also be able to worship on their own (Matthew 6:5-6). But this is obviously...

Here's an idea of how to use beads to remember a certain way of praying, the ACTS way (adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication / stuff). We used this idea on our exhibition stand at Youthwork the Conference, and had some great chats with people whilst threading the beads. I got these...