This is a practical handbook for churches on how to become more welcoming to children and families in worship. It is designed to encourage PCCs and ministry teams to reflect on the spiritual needs of children, the pastoral needs of families, and how to remove barriers and manage change effectively.

Margaret Pritchard Houston

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Introduction

1. We Are Family

2. First Steps and Solid Foundations

3. The Building, or Who Fits in the Boat?

4. The Dreaded ‘Shhhhhh’ and Other Cultural Barriers to Welcome

5. Boiling Frogs, and Shock and Awe

6. Do Not Hinder Them

Afterword: From Stranger to Friend

Appendix 1: ‘Home Sweet Home’

Appendix 2: Resource List

Appendix 3: Contents of Themed Story Bags/Baskets for Imaginative Spiritual Play

• A comprehensive guide to making churches welcoming to all ages, looking at both church buildings and worship. • Explores how children and adults can be truly integrated as the church community. • Based on the author's extensive teaching and speaking on this subject.

Beyond the Children's Corner is a practical handbook to help churches become more welcoming to children and families in worship. It encourages PCCs and ministry teams to reflect on the spiritual needs of children, the pastoral needs of families, and how to remove barriers and manage change effectively. Based on multiple training sessions and extensive casework, informed by research by the Church of England's Life Events team and the Methodist Church, it explores: • The changing needs of modern families; • What tells you it's time for change; • 'Quick wins' to make the worship space more welcoming and spiritually imaginative; • Engaging children in spiritually nourishing worship; • Children and contemplative worship – what to do about noise; • Building and sustaining relationships with families and children. Many books on All-Age Worship focus the service itself. Beyond the Children's Corner explores how children and adults can be truly integrated as the church community, covering parents' perspectives, the church building and the challenge of change as well as what happens in worship.

\["For Church leaders, ministry teams and PCCs","This handy guide helps Church become more welcome to children &amp; families","You'll find guidance to removing barriers &amp; managing change efficiently"\]

A must-read for ministry teams, Beyond the Children's Corner helps churches to welcome more families and children

Beyond the Children's Corner

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Beyond the Children's Corner

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This is a practical handbook for churches on how to become more welcoming to children and families in worship. It is designed to encourage PCCs and ministry teams to reflect on the spiritual needs of children, the pastoral needs of families, and how to remove barriers and manage change effectively.

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