Böcker utgivna av BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship)

What does bereavement feel like? What helps us endure the dark days? How can we grieve so as to be comforted and, in our own way, recover and create a new life for ourselves? This book deals with these questions.

365 illustrated stories from the Bible, a page for every day of the year. Every main event in the Bible is included, retold as a continuous narrative to make the Bible accessible to all readers.

An excitingly different approach to sharing Bible stories with children What is a Whoosh? It¿s a drama strategy developed by the Royal Shakespeare Company¿s education unit and popularised in schools, involving every child in physical interaction with the story. Why Whoosh? It enables children to retain details of the narrative more effectively and to discuss the meaning of a story with greater understanding and insight. And it¿s lots of fun! What¿s in this book? 50 Bible stories for use with 7¿11 year olds, follow-up activities, discussion starters and prayers, and tips for leaders on how to use the whooshing technique. How do I use this book? It can be used with minimal preparation to provide a full Bible story teaching programme or to supplement an existing one, and is suitable for a range of contexts: Sunday school, midweek group, family service, holiday club, Messy Church celebration, or primary school.

Prayer is a vital part of the Christian life but people often struggle with it. This book offers 80 ideas for setting up 'prayer stations', ways of praying that involve the senses, acknowledging the importance of enacting rather than simply reflecting.

Brings together essays and case studies from a range of contributors examining the growth of Messy Church and discussing questions of sustainability, discipleship, all-age church, sacramental, interdenominational, ecumenical and international possibilities, and the future of Messy Church.

Clergy inhabit a fantastic, pressurised, privileged, frustrating and humbling role. They get to join in the highest and lowest points of people's lives, often on the same day. They have experiences. If they are very skilled they learn from them as well as laugh about them.

In the dark and turbulent centuries after the Roman occupation of Britain, and during the Anglo-Saxon colonisation, the light of heaven still shone through the work and witness of the monastic communities, 'villages of God', which dotted the land. This book explores the Hilda's life and ministry.

This is a book that helps church leaders think through how to go about creating long-term communities for those who go along to Messy Church. It gives church leaders the theology and practical steps for a longer-term strategy to ensure that Messy Church and those who come along are given the right nurturing environment to grow and flourish.

A guide to crafts that teaches favourite Bible stories in any setting. It covers the paper plate, each craft uses basic, everyday materials such as card, felt-tipped pens, scissors and glue and can be completed as suggested or adapted to suit the needs and skills of the children.

Features a wealth of practical, field-tested ideas designed to reinforce Bible stories. This title includes games that are a great way to reinforce a teaching point or to help children unfamiliar with the Bible to remember a story. It presents differentiated ideas that make the games suitable for all ages from 4-11.

Overflowing with creative ideas to draw the community together for fun, food, fellowship and worship, this resource book contains 15 themed programme outlines. Each outline has ideas for creative art and craft activities, meal plans and recipes for eating together and family-friendly worship.

Building on the popularity of Messy Crafts, this title extends the range of messy things to do at your Messy Church with a particular focus on the Christmas season. It includes crafts for Advent, crafts for Christmas and more general winter-themed activities to take you on into the New Year.

This is the Bible, retold for younger children in 365 much-loved stories and illustrated by a variety of popular artists.

Containing a wealth of easy-to-do instant craft ideas and non-craft based activities, this title is suitable for those with special needs. It offers ideas that include suggestions to inspire further exploration of the craft technique.

Suitable for very young children, or for independent readers aged 4-6 years, this title retells the favourite Bible stories known and loved by generations of children.

Covers many aspects of social and emotional learning. This book includes 50 original poems, with accompanying introductory paragraphs to set the context of individual groupings and follow-on suggestions (classroom capers) to stimulate imaginative thinking and writing.

Features fifteen easy-to-tell stories combining biblical teaching with contemporary storytelling. In this title, each unit also contains a teacher's page giving the Bible reference for the original parable and information to link the teaching to PSHE/Citizenship and the National Framework for RE or local SACRE guidelines.

'Creating Community; shows how the insights of 'new monasticism' can help people deepen their connection with God and each other, and connect God with the whole of life based around the importance of a way (or rule) of life, a network of soul friends, and a rhythm of prayer.

Includes forty readings that offer gentle guidance and consolation, from the earliest stage of groping for God's presence to realising the beginnings of life and hope. This book has four sections: The early stages, Walking through question marks, Dealing with the Lurkers and The return of spring.

If only you could be sure that every craft you planned for your childrenΓÇÖs ministry would be a winner... Now you can be certain of success with over 100 tried-and-tested crafts, submitted by childrenΓÇÖs workers like you, and used with real children in real churches. Structured into three sections of crafts for younger and older primary ages and for all ages together, The Big Book of Bible Crafts is a lifesaver for Sunday school, midweek groups and holiday clubs.