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Mapping your week with God
A reflection for home or in a worship gathering that we shared in last Sunday. Materials: Paper and marker. How has being a Christ follower or someone who loves and respects Jesus shaped your week? What has his love meant for the people around you? How has Jesus shaped your decisions, the surprises, the joys,…
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Joy-Filled Advent Calendar – Begins this Wednesday!
Ideas for Living Joyfully into this Season 4o days of Celtic Advent and 12 days of Christmas 2017 In the 6th century, the Celtic Christians celebrated Advent during the 40 days before Christmas, as a mirror to the period of Lent before Easter. Join us in a longer, joyful preparation for Christ’s coming and let…
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A simple Ash service
Set-up: Bowl of Ash. The ‘wisdom of ash’ poem printed on the wall. (below) Native white flowers in basket. Communion. Psalm pages for each person. Optional Kids package – pretzels – remind us of praying arms and some plasticine to make something out of. Introduction – with picture of Spring. Lent has a long history. It…
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Lent Week 1 – All-age meditation & action
Lent Lent is the time from this coming Wednesday that goes until Easter. It’s a special time when we get ready for Easter. A time when God’s people all over the world really think about our friendship with God and spend more time with God. The word Lent means “Spring” or “springtime”. A time of growing…
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Paper Plane Intercession
Materials: Paper squares for each person, pens, blu tac. Opening Prayer Creator, source of our life, We come to you. May this time together be for the welcome of your tenderness and strength in and through our lives. (Silence) In this season of change we call Spring or tadpole season, we are stopping to remember…
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World Communion Sunday Communion Liturgy
Prayers we shared yesterday at our World Communion service. Today is world communion Sunday. On this first Sunday of October, we celebrate with churches all around the world our family of faith in all it’s rich diversity. We celebrate our oneness – our communion – in Christ, in the midst of a world still in…
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Blessings of Peace and Welcome for your Doorway
In a time where violence, fighting, stress and loneliness enters our homes in so many ways, we want to pray peace, protection and welcome on the places we live. When Jesus sent his friends into towns and villages to stay in peoples homes and do his good work, he told them to always bless the…
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Greening of the Cross Liturgy
Greening of the Cross Play dvd clip ‘God’s Wonderful Surprise’ from the Jesus Storybook Bible What a wonderful mystery is this God, this power, this life beyond death. Jesus, the first of the sleepers has risen. Power is His to wake us all from darkness. To bring life into every place. We like…
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Palm Sunday Resources
Photograph by Matthew Wiebe Intro to Palm Sunday Today we remember the special journey Jesus took into Jerusalem the week before he was killed. Like a king Jesus rode into the city and Jesus’ followers started getting excited, they thought he was going to make himself King and the crowd got bigger and bigger, shouting,…
