Forbid Them Not Year a: Involving Children in Sunday Worship

By Carolyn Brown

This resource shows how to create meaningful worship experiences for everyone who comes to your church--children, youth, and adults. A three-volume series based on the Revised Common Lectionary, Forbid Them Not offers specific suggestions for prayers, hymns, litanies, sermon illustrations, and ways to present Scripture so that children--as well as older worshipers--can really hear the message. (Even if your church does not follow the lectionary, you can find suggestions related to any Scripture passage by using the index.) Forbid Them Not, Year A includes 58 full-page, reproducible activity worksheets related to each Sunday's worship theme. With these ideas and resources at hand, you can create worship services that minister to adults and to children. Also available: Forbid Them Not Year B order item #9780687132560 Forbid Them Not Year C order item #9780687132652

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068713255X
• ISBN13: 9780687132553
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Kids belong in worship

Carolyn Brown's "Forbid Them Not" begins with the premise that kids really do belong in worship, and that good worship includes kids as well as adults. This book is a resource for worship planners and preachers to help them do just that. Beginning with a separate article on the liturgical season "From a child's point of view", Brown then takes each Sunday's readings, helping adults look at them from a child's perspective, including "watch words"--vocabulary helps and warnings about words kids are likely to misunderstand, suggesting better alternatives. For each week there are suggestions for hymns that appeal to children, ways to include children in the liturgy and sermon suggestions for ways to include kids as listeners. Finally, for each week there is a "Worship Worksheet"--a reproducible sheet of games, puzzles or questions related to the day's readings. Overall, a great resource for the challenging work of planning and leading worship that appeals to everyone, including kids.