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Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Here are three different Christmas pageants complete with music, staging directions, scenery and costume suggestions, plus pointers about how to organize your event. The pageants are for grades K-8, but one also calls for adults and teens. The first pageant is a traditional Nativity play with carols; the second is an adaptation in verse in the style of medieval mystery plays; and the third is a dramatized service of lessons and carols with Eucharist. Some churches adopt one pageant as an annual production; others try a different one each year. Pageant 1: “Good News of Great Joy” – This is the simplest pageant in concept and uses the Isaiah text of the prophecies with scenes of the Annu...
Offering the Gospel to Children
Church education programs for children often substitute children’s Bibles for Holy Scripture and simple moralism for imagination. Gretchen Wolff Pritchard shows how to offer the gospel imaginatively to children, with practical ideas on children’s worship, liturgy, drama, pastoral care, and study of the Bible. The final chapter includes an exhaustive annotated bibliography of children’s books for the parish library, and resources for parents and teachers.
Faith at Home
Add depth and meaning your family's traditions with these basic Christian practices that nurture and enrich everyone’s faith at home. Home and parents are the key mechanisms by which religious faith and practice are transmitted inter-generationally. Recent studies indicate that the single most important factor in youth becoming committed and engaged in their religious faith as young adults is that the family talks about religion at home. However, for many parents in the United States, religious language is a foreign language. Faith at Home helps parents learn this "second language" and introduce it to their children in simple, meaningful, concrete ways. Parents often ask: How do we introdu...
Diddy Disciples 1: September to December
Diddy Disciples is a creative and playful new worship and Bible storytelling resource for babies, toddlers and young children. Covering the church year from September to December, this book aims to encourage participation, discipleship and leadership from children?s earliest years, using storytelling, singing, colour, repetition, art, and lots and lots of movement!
Learning to Love
Parents and children, friends and acquaintances, teachers and students learn from each other and, throughout life, help develop and refine the human capacity for love. Learning to Love illustrates this phenomenon in beautifully written prose and poetry by well-known author and children's minister, Gretchen Wolff Pritchard. Writing from her perspective as founder of The Children's Mission of St. Paul and St. James in New Haven, Connecticut, author Pritchard documents significant experiences in her life that formed her, and in so doing, brings the reader to new insights about her own life. (128 pp)
Children Matter
Explores how the church can better minister to children inside and outside of the Christian education classroom. Draws on the Bible, psychology, and the authors' experience in various Protestant traditions.
I Love Christmas
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The Living Church
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Children's Spirituality
An introduction to the increasingly popular topic of children's spirituality, showing how choices made in churches and homes can stimulate or stifle a child's spiritual development. Suitable for anyone who works with children.
Offering the Gospel to Children
Gretchen Wolff Pritchard shows how to offer the gospel imaginatively to children, with practical ideas on children's worship, liturgy, drama, pastoral care, and study of the Bible.
