Something to think about...
...applying the five marks of mission

Tell | Teach | Tend | Transform | Treasure

The United Reformed Church is Growing Up and has a variety of publications to help with mission and children

The material on the following page highlights children and mission and was written after the Growing Up report was produced - Whose Mission is it anyway?

• "Tell" - to proclaim the good news of the kingdom
  • The inclusion of very young children in worship
  • A reflection on children and the church
  • "Checking the charter" - how does it go with children in your church?
  • What children think of worship in church
    • Part One
    • Part Two
  • Children and church by Stephen Thornton
  • Children and communion
    • Part One
    • Part Two
  • About church membership - by Duncan Wilson
  • "Wholly Worship" - worshipping in the whole church
  • How to help lay preachers
  • Mission in the new millennium - an order for worship
  • Pilots - what are they all about?
  • The United Reformed Church's Youth and Children's Work Policy
  • "Chucking Stones"
  • Getting it together for local evangelism in Kent
  • Getting it together - an idea for a dark Sunday afternoon in February
  • Is it All Age Worship when...?
• "Teach" - to baptise and nurture new believers
  • How does God view Children?
  • All Change - mission ideas for the United Reformed Church
  • Children as theologians and theologians as children
    • Part One
    • Part Two
  • Hearing God's Word - ways to use the Bible
  • The original radio script of the former General Secretary's Malagasy trip
  • Nairn United Reformed Church Pilots
  • Churches and Schools - how do we make useful connections?
  • Ministers - what's your ministry?
  • "Why use a scheme" - a view from Kent
  • A Fly on the Wall - all round the world
• "Tend" - to respond to human need by loving service
  • Pastoral Care
  •         When someone loves you they say your name differently
  • Children growing up without violence
  • The Criminal Records Bureau - preparing to use it
  • Protecting children - a Methodist view
  • Good Practice - how is your church doing?
  • Special needs -
    • A special child
    • Who is your special child?
  • When parents come into the church - how do we welcome their children?
  • Stepping forward with God - a story from a local church
• "Transform" - to seek to transform unjust structures of society
  • Commitment For Life
    • "4 Life" - activities and ideas for children to get involved in global justice
    • "4 Life" - what it's about
    • A story to add to your Commitment For Life file
    • Precious Nkomo's story for your Commitment For Life file
  • TURN TO GOD ~ REJOICE IN HOPE - a meeting in Harare
  • Hear the story of an exchange visit with Belarus
  • Racism
    • "All children should be seen" - racism and children
    • A poem about racism
  • Who decides what colour to paint the church?
  • New Directions in Children's Ministry
  • Children at General Assembly
  • What children ask their headteacher
  • Children's work in the church encouraged by East Wiltshire
• "Treasure" - to safeguard the integrity of creation
  • Greening the church in a suburb of Rotherham
  • If only we listened to the voice of a child
  • Think Small and grow