If you are looking for a great clip that connects Advent and Christmas? Check out this two-minute video that describes why we celebrate Advent and wait to celebrate Christmas...

Are you fed up of hearing the traditional readings at Christmas year on year? Would you like to hear something different? Here are three easy-to-follow interactive stories that will brighten up any family festive service...

Are you trying to think of what to do for that Harvest Thanksgiving rapidly approaching? Well, here are a few ideas from Barnabas to get you started...

An inclusive All-age Easter talk involving children and young people...

• Buy some plastic Easter Eggs - the kind that open so that you can put things inside. Easily available from PoundShops.
• Read the Holy Week/Easter story with the children/young people. Ask them what they want to say about it to the congregation.
• Then ask them what objects/symbols might help them say/show their ideas.
• Source or make these with the children and put one inside each egg. (Remember which is inside each colour and the order you want them to appear.) Decide together what needs to be said about the object/symbol.
• On Easter morning, have less confident children opening the eggs and showing the object/symbol and the more confident ones saying something about it. If the church is large, you might want to substitute boxes for the eggs so that the objects can be larger!
• Finish by having all the children saying, 'He is Risen' - and the congregation responding 'Alleluia'. (You could do this two or three times getting louder each time.)

Are you struggling to find a simple but effective retelling of the Easter story for your children’s group? Check this out by BBC’s CBeebies…

What can we do at Christmas to help others, and how can that be driven by faith? Children from St Barnabas Church of England Primary School in Montpelier, Bristol show how anyone can get involved and help in a "Christmas appeal" film they made about the Sisters of the Church in St. Paul's.

MESSY CHURCH

Every month, families who have never set a foot in a church before are enjoying Messy Church.  Messy Church is proving effective in sharing God’s good news with families across denominations and church traditions.

In this day and age, churches are frequently being reminded to take responsibility for the care and well being of children and young people within the life of their church, and be accountable for the work they do. "Child Friendly Church" is a scheme to help with this.

Everyone is looking for a fabulous website for resources, ideas and stories and here is the ‘new kid on the block’…

The creators of Youthwork magazine have a new publication aimed at people who work with under 11s at church.

Childrenswork magazine has some top quality resources on their website, and they are giving away free copies for people who want to try the magazine out.

You can also get a free copy of Youthwork magazine from their site.