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Sowing Seeds is a creative and playful worship and Bible storytelling resource for babies, toddlers and young children.
Sowing Seeds aims to encourage participation, discipleship and leadership from children's earliest years, using storytelling, singing, colour, repetition, art and lots and lots of movement! Peer-learning is actively encouraged with many opportunities for young children to learn from each other.
Groups are invited to build their own Sowing Seeds sessions, choosing from different options. Leaders can use the material to create a service to follow the pattern of their church's Sunday worship, a simple midweek baby and toddler singing session, or anything in between!
Book 4 includes:
* Over 18 weeks' worth of fully worked-out sessions organized into 6-8 week units for use during the year.
* All the information you need to set up and run Sowing Seeds in your group
* Plenty of opportunities to tailor the material to your own context, resources and tradition
* All sorts of creative 'starter ideas' for using everyday art and play resources to spark children's imaginations and engagement as they respond to the biblical stories.
The Units are:
* Jesus' Wonderful Love: eight weeks including parables of The Lost Sheep, The Good Samaritan and The Good Shepherd
* Paul's Letters: eleven weeks including key events in Paul's life and themes and messages in his letters
— Canon Dr Paula Gooder, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral and New Testament scholar
"I'm excited by Sowing Seeds! It's a celebration of Psalm 8.2 and all that babies and toddlers bring to worship. Movement, stories, actions and songs combine in carefully crafted sessions to draw groups into a new way of worshipping that will enrich everyone involved. I can’t wait to start using it."
— The Revd Mary Hawes, former National Children and Youth Adviser, Church of England
"Sowing Seeds is an invaluable blend of Sharon Moughtin’s reflective practice and contemporary thinking about childhood spirituality. The result is an exceptional and inspiring resource for churches working with the very youngest children. A powerful case for seeing why the very young deserve the very best, and this is a well-tested method for doing that."
— Dr Rebecca Nye, Godly Play expert and researcher and consultant in children's spirituality
"Even though Jesus makes it clear that entering the Kingdom of God requires us to become like children, real children are often neglected in the catechetical and formational life of the Church. Diddy Disciples (now Sowing Seeds) puts that right! Here is a resource to help the children come to Jesus and grow as his disciples."
— The Most Revd and Rt Hon. Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York
"We've loved using the Sowing Seeds material at St Albans Cathedral for our babies and young children as part of our worship on Sunday mornings. The modular format makes it easy to adapt for different ages or lengths of time, and the children really respond to the familiarity of the structure, the singing and interactive storytelling, and the repetition. We've seen steady growth in the number of families who come regularly on Sundays, and the parents are often less ready to move on from this resource than their children! Having such clear material has been great for our volunteer leaders, and we particularly love the fact that even our smallest babies and toddlers can participate in worship, rather than just being in a creche."
— Beccy Baird, children's worship leader, St Albans Cathedral
"Sowing Seeds is an invaluable resource that we use in school to support our collective worship and Religious Education curriculum with the youngest of pupils. It helpfully provides some background knowledge of theological concepts and Bible stories to support the staff leading the sessions. I would highly recommend this to schools as it is unlike any other resource we have found."
— Kate Penfold-Attride, Headteacher, St Matthew's Church of England Primary School, Redhill
"Sowing Seeds is being taken up enthusiastically by a growing number of parishes in the Diocese of Southwark. Helping children grow into the fullness of Christ through creative, age-appropriate engagement is a wonderful journey of adventure and discovery; and this book, which I gladly commend, will be an essential resource for anyone starting out on that path."
— The Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Southwark
"This is a flexible resource that acknowledges the importance and significance of enabling the youngest at church to engage in worship and begin a faith journey. The book not only offers ideas for a range of different settings and of personality and learning styles, but is also clearly built upon a theological and developmental understanding of children and faith. This is a resource that we will be using within our church setting, as we seek to engage and empower children from the youngest age in their understanding of God, faith, themselves and the world."
— Steve Chalke, founder and leader, Oasis Global
What is Sowing Seeds?
Part One: Interactive Bible Storytelling
Introduction
Jesus' Wonderful Love unit (Green Time)
The Lost Sheep (Luke 15.3-7)
The Lost Coin (Luke 15.8-10)
The Lost Son (Luke 15.11-24)
The Good Shepherd (John 10.11-15)
The Loving Stranger/The Good Samaritan (Luke 10.29-37)
The Rich Man: Life is More Than That! (Luke 12: 16-21)
You Are the Light of the World! (Matthew 5.14-16)
Learn to Love Each Other! The Sending Out (Luke 10: 1-17)
Paul the Letter Writer unit (Green Time)
When Paul Met Jesus (Acts 9: 1-19)
Paul in Prison (Acts 16: 22-34)
The Good News of Jesus Christ: Love is Stronger (Luke 24.13-35)
Lydia's Story (Acts 16.13-15)
We are All One in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3: 28)
The Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12: 12-30)
Love is the Winner (1 Corinthians 13: 1-13)
Amazing Grace: Look how much Jesus loves me! (Ephesians 3: 17-19)
The Fruit of the Spirit! (Galatians 5: 22)
Option 1: The Fruit of the Spirit is...
Option 2: May the Fruit of the Spirit Grow!
The Armour of God! (Ephesians 6: 10-18)
Part Two: Bible Storytelling with Babies and Toddlers only
Part Three: Creative Response Starter Ideas
Part Four: The Building Blocks
Sowing Seeds Resources
Photocopiable templates