Spill the Beans Worship and Learning Resources for All Ages
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spill the beans worship and learning resources for all ages sampler issue 30 lent, easter and pentecost 5 march to 9 june 2019 A resource with a Scottish flavour for spillbeans.org.uk Worship Leaders, Sunday Schools, www.facebook.com/spillbeansresources Junior Churches and Youth Leaders. © 2019 Spill the Beans Resource Team lent, easter, pentecost 2019 1 introduction and ethos introduction elcome to the third of a series of five issues of Spill the Beans that will take us through Lent and Easter to Pentecost Sunday. Using Issue 30 WWe are using our own lectionary plan of readings for this In this issue of Spill the Beans you will find an extensive collection of series. We also include in this issue resources for a service focussing things to use each week. Because each piece is written with specific on Climate Change and an All Age Holy Week Communion service. congregations in mind there may be the need to be a little creative yourselves in adapting and evolving some of the ideas to suit your own The Spill the Beans Resource Team asked for feedback from place and culture and congregation. That is entirely purposeful. congregations on both favourite Bible stories and those stories that we do not often hear in worship and many congregations wrote back to Of course, if you are creative and would like to share what you have us. This information were most helpful. While we asked about favourite done, then have a look at our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/ Bible stories, we were most interested in the stories people felt were spillbeansresources and the associated Facebook group that provides not covered in the normal course of worship. space for discussion and support. On our blog at http://spillbeans.org.uk you will find PowerPoint backgrounds for most weeks. Using these ideas, and carefully considering what is already covered by the Revised Common Lectionary and Narrative Lectionary, we have Each week we provide a selection of words, ideas and creative created a plan that will take us on a different journey through the moments to take the theme and the passage a little further. We do not scripture, dipping into stories we do not often hear, or with which we provide a ready made service or perfect prayers but ideas and pointers spend little time. that hopefully scratch at your own creativity and provoke heaven’s imagination within you. We are excited about this new journey along lanes lesser travelled in the scriptures that it will be stimulating for us as worship and age Here are some helpful tips to guide you in your use of the material in group leaders, and will provide our congregations with an engaging and age groups: enlightening basis for our worship over the next year. 1. It presumes some introduction to the story will have taken place in Revised Common Lectionary worship together or will play a part in the service when children join it later. and Narrative Lectionary Resources 2. Depending on the make-up of your own groups of children you will We have two Overspill packages that provide complete sets of past need to remain flexible in how you use the material. issues that give a huge library of resources for both the Revised 3. Each idea has been given a guide age range to help your planning, Common Lectionary and Narrative Lectionary. but this is only a guide so use your own judgement about what will The Revised Common Lectionary Overspill Pack work with your group. Issues 1-12 4. Before the sit-down activities if you have a group of young children 1,536 pages or lots of boys, you may want to add a run-around type game to £50 expend some energy. Purchase through this link: https://pul.ly/b/108820 5. Use the gathering time exercise with the whole group to get into The Narrative Lectionary Overspill Pack the story together across the ages. Issues 13-27 (plus summer extra) in higher quality render 2,082 pages 6. We encourage you to retell the story together. £60 Purchase through this link: https://pul.ly/b/207215 7. Follow that by choosing as many or as few activities your space and time allow. You could offer a number of activities each at You are downloadingsampler a compressed archive of files which need to be different stations all at the same time for all ages to self-select unpacked so we recommend downloading these to a desktop or laptop with a teacher staffing each one, or have traditional classes. computer rather than phone or tablet. Note that depending on future years there may not be resources for some Sundays depending on the 8. During activities, ask children to retell the story to you and ask timing of Easter and changes to the readings as a result. about their week, what was happy and what was sad and if this week’s story reminds them of other biblical and personal stories. Who Are We? 9. The intention is not to complete “the tasks” brilliantly, but rather to At the beginning of 2009 a conversation began amongst a couple, provide opportunities to begin conversations, build relationships, then a few, then a group about collaboratively creating resources that retell the story of the day, and talk about what it means for us enabled us to tell the story of faith in a worship context and within today. age groups for younger people and teens. Spill the Beans was born as 10. There are many websites that provide handout-type sheets that the result of that conversation and has grown and developed over the will have images, crosswords and word searches for the story of intervening years. that week. They can be helpful in an emergency, but try to be more The ethos has remained the same, however. It is all about story. For we creative as leaders, the rewards are worth it. believe story is the lifeblood of faith. In story we can tell the truth and speak with honesty about things for which there are not yet words. Information Story contains mystery and is the poetry that forms faith. Stories grow Unless otherwise indicated, any quotations of the scriptures are taken as we grow and can reveal new truths at different times in our lives. from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, So we believe giving stories to people is one of the most important copyright © 1989, 1995 National Council of the Churches of Christ in things we can do in sharing our faith. Children and adults hold stories in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. their being and keep coming back to them throughout life. Our culture is All original content in this issue © 2019 Spill The Beans Resources stored in story. The same is true for our faith. Team. Spill the Beans is a work of love. None of the contributors are paid for Editor: Peter Johnston [email protected] their contributions, these contributions are written and prepared with our own congregations in mind. Instead of working in isolation, we bring Chair: Roddy Hamilton [email protected] this work together, give it some spit and polish, and share it with others. Administrator: Julie Thompson [email protected] This is how we can keep the cost so low. Cover Artwork: Leila Kleineidam In addition, we regularly pay it forward by using surplus monies to http://spillbeans.org.uk support other new ministries and projects. http://www.facebook.com/spillbeansresources Sleepless Nights Publications 2 spill the beans, issue 30 contents and team contents 2018/19 Spill Lectionary Plan 4 All Age Holy Week Communion Resources 91 Climate Change Service Resources 6 Friday 19 April 2019 (Good Friday) 94 Through the Season Notes 10 Love Wins Tuesday 5 March 2019 (Shrove Tuesday) 12 Sunday 21 April 2019 (Easter Sunday) 102 Wednesday 6 March 2019 (Ash Wednesday) 14 Sunday 28 April 2019 (Easter 2) 111 Love Sunday 5 May 2019 (Easter 3) 120 Sunday 10 March 2019 (Lent 1) 20 Sunday 12 May 2019 (Easter 4) 128 Sunday 17 March 2019 (Lent 2) 29 Buildings Sunday 24 March 2019 (Lent 3) 38 Sunday 19 May 2019 (Easter 5) 136 Sunday 31 March 2019 (Lent 4) 46 Sunday 26 May 2019 (Easter 6) 144 Sunday 7 April 2019 (Lent 5) 54 Sunday 2 June 2019 (Easter 7) 152 Holy Week Spirit Comes Sunday 14 April 2019 (Palm Sunday) 63 Sunday 9 June 2019 (Pentecost) 161 Monday 15 April 2019 72 Extra Resources and Activity Sheets 169 Tuesday 16 April 2019 76 Please remember you can use the bookmark system within Wednesday 17 April 2019 81 Adobe Reader to quickly move around this document. Thursday 18 April 2019 (Maundy Thursday) 85 spill the beans resource team The contributors producing this issue included: Key to Abbreviations Keith BlackwoodsamplerJo Love In the worship ideas section the following abbreviations may Ruth Burgess Nikki Macdonald be used to indicate different sources of worship music: Liz Crumlish John Murning ATAS All the Assembly Songs You’ll Ever Need Shuna Dicks Garry Noonan CG Common Ground Roddy Hamilton Scott Paget CH4 Church Hymnary, 4th Edition Karen Harbison Lyn Peden CH3 Church Hymnary, 3rd Edition Mary Henderson Jen Robertson JP Junior Praise Peter Johnston Barbara Ann Sweetin MP Complete Mission Praise Leila Kleineidam Julie Thompson SGP Songs of God’s People Caryl Kyle Mary Whittaker WGP Wild Goose Publications lent, easter, pentecost 2019 3 2018-19 Lectionary Plan the spill lectionary plan 2018-2019 Bible Readings To assist you in your forward planning, we include here the complete plan of scripture readings four our own lectionary plan taking us through to the end of the 2018/19 liturgical year.