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Mission Shaped Children

Moving Towards a Child-centered Church

  • Paperback
  • 152 pages
  • Publisher: Church House Publishing
  • 15 x 20.9 x 0.8 cm

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The saying 'Children are our future...' may be a cliche but it is one that the Church cannot afford to ignore! Too often, nurture and worship for children is about containing and entertaining, rather than engaging with and growing young Christians who can give as much as they receive. "Mission-shaped Church" touched on the importance of involving and nurturing the children and young people in the Church, but only in passing. "Mission-shaped Children" fills this gap. Written as a response to "Mission-shaped Church" from the perspective of children, this important book explores: how the dramatic cultural, social and economic trends of recent years have impacted on children's lives and how this affects the Church; developments in how the Church has nurtured children in the past 100 years; the many and varied opportunities there are to help children to experience Church and some of the challenges this presents for those working with children; and how the Church can shape itself around children and young people, rather than expecting them to fit in with the Church.Written in an engaging style, "Mission-shaped Children" contains many real life case studies, practical examples and questions for discussion.
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  • Author

    Margaret Withers

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Church House Publishing

  • Published

    June 2010

  • Weight

    137g

  • Page Count

    152

  • Dimensions

    15 x 20.9 x 0.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780715142325

  • ISBN-10

    0715142321

  • Eden Code

    3700981

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    Written as a response to Mission-shaped Church, this is a concise and very readable book. It grapples with some of the challenges presented to those already working with children and also to churches who know that they should be doing so. The book explores how the Church can shape itself around children and young people, rather than expecting them to fit in with the Church and also gives plenty of real life examples of good practice to inspire the reader. Whilst for people already engaged in children’s work, this book may be telling them little that they didn’t know already; its target audience is really those people who want to be fully including children in their mission but who are NOT already doing so. Undoubtedly the best audience for this book would be members and leaders of churches who are not and who do not want to be including children, though it is unlikely these people will find themselves reading it! Perhaps anyone thinking of reading this book could pass it on to such people after reading it! For PCCs and any other working groups wanting to use Mission-shaped Church, there are lots of useful discussion questions. It does not give a formula for doing it ‘right’ (though it gives a fairly honest view of how we might be doing it wrong!). There are plenty of examples throughout the book to inspire even the most pessimistic of churches and to point them towards some positive and exciting possibilities for their future ministry to children.

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