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Weight	100g
Format	Paperback
Publisher	Kevin Mayhew
Publication Date	04/06/2009

ISBN: 9781848671775

There are many differing opinions on children and their ability to worship. Some churches aim for frequent all-age services as their way of encouraging children to encounter God, whilst others rely on the groups that children are sent to during the service. Like all areas of ministry with children, all-age worship is not easy – there are barriers to face, mistakes to make, and lessons to learn. This revised edition of All-Age Everything is full of ideas and suggestions to make all-age worship a true intergenerational worship experience. It looks at every part of an all-age service, from how to go about the initial planning, followed by tips for welcomes and beginnings through to endings and blessings. The ideas can be adapted to suit your own church setting, but most of all they make meeting God fun for the entire church family, however young or old.

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There are many differing opinions on children and their ability to worship. Some churches aim for frequent all-age services as their way of encouraging children to encounter God, whilst others rely on the groups that children are sent to during the service. Like all areas of ministry with children, all-age worship is not easy – there are barriers to face, mistakes to make, and lessons to learn. This revised edition of All-Age Everything is full of ideas and suggestions to make all-age worship a true intergenerational worship experience. It looks at every part of an all-age service, from how to go about the initial planning, followed by tips for welcomes and beginnings through to endings and blessings. The ideas can be adapted to suit your own church setting, but most of all they make meeting God fun for the entire church family, however young or old.

Nick Harding

Nick is currently Diocese Children's Ministry Adviser and DBS Manager for the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, where he works with church leadership structures and children's leaders in training, consultation and delivery of quality children's ministry. Before this he was a teacher, schools worker, training officer, and Cathedral Education Officer. He is passionate about seeing children, young people and families grow in the church, the place of boys in faith communities, and making school visits to churches much more fun! He serves on national bodies including the C of E General Synod, is trustee of a number of charities, and has written many resources and songs for children's and schools work. He has led all-age worship, is part of the event leadership team, and has taken seminars at Spring Harvest for many years. Nick regularly speaks and delivers training at conferences around the country and in Ireland, inspects Church Schools, and sits as a magistrate in Nottinghamshire. Most importantly Nick is married to Clare (a primary school head-teacher) and they have two grown-up sons.