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 one is for all you Blue Peter fans out there … it is designed to remind people of the kingship of Jesus, that the tiny baby in the manger is the Prince of Peace, with infinite power to change lives and set the dark on fire*. For to us a...
A few weeks ago our church celebrated with a thanksgiving meal together, the inspiration span out of a desire to celebrate Harvest in a creative way; but I reckon this could work anytime of the year. Firstly, we decided to meet at lunchtime instead of our usual 10.30 meeting. For...
This powerpoint reflection aims to bring the ACTS prayer pneumonic into the digital age. It is a series of slides which encourage people to first get ready to pray and then to focus on Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication (or "stuff"!). For each section, there is a brief explanation and...
This idea is to use an auction of gifts and skills to raise money for your church community or project, all within the context of the worship service. What follows is the write up that was produced to promote the idea to our church family - hopefully this should explain...
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...
