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Tea-time Church
Tea-time Church is our own development of Lucy Moore's Messy Church, though in fact our resources could easily be
used in a Messy Church or Cafe Church setting. Our ideas for this have been tested at
the Deepings Methodist Church where it has run for a couple of years
with some success.
Tea-time
Church is designed to be run on a
Sunday afternoon, leading into Sunday evening worship which can replace
the evening service on that particular Sunday. However it can also be
run midweek. We start with time
for
games as children arrive. This leads into a short time of energetic
worship which includes a bible-bop (we find it easier these days to get
children to dance rather than sing), action songs, prayers and an
introduction to the theme using a video.
After this everyone is encouraged to take part in the craft activities
and then enjoy a Sunday tea together. This can be a cooked meal but we
find sandwiches, pizza, crisps, jelly and ice cream and cakes work
really well and are less labour-intensive. This can also be a way of
including others in the congregation, who might not come to tea time
church, but who would be willing to make a cake.
After tea we move into the 2nd part of worship. This time the bible is
used for the reading and there is a short talk, prayers, some slightly
less lively songs and we finish with a "song for the adults".
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The Resources
We now offer a complete 3 year pattern, but you can
be flexible with this. We offer a brief glimpse of the life of Moses in
the first 3 sessions which allows us then to cover the birth of Jesus
in December. We then follow the life of Jesus, using parables at the
appropriate moments. The only exception to this is each December where
we offer Christmas resources.
We mainly use 4 DVDs for resources and these are quite inexpensive to purchase
The Prince of Egypt
The MiracleMaker
The Parables Complete Collection
Puppets 'n' Parables is available from the Family Friendly Churches Trust as a Download
From time to time we will also suggest other
videos that may be available. Remember, to show videos like this you
will need the video extension to your CCLI licence.
We offer a programme including an opening and closing prayer, song
suggestions with the songs available as PowerPoint and video files,
game and craft suggestions and the text of a short all age talk.
Along with this will be a complete PowerPoint file with all the songs
inserted as videos. You will need to download the PowerPoint and videos
files and hold them in the same folder. If you have your own musicians
then it is an easy process to delete the video slides and replace then
with slides of the words.
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The Complete Programme
This is the material we cover over 3 years.
Month
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Theme
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Videos
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Year 1
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September
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Baby in the
bulrushes
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Prince of Egypt
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October
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The Burning Bush
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Prince of Egypt
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November
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The Escape from Egypt
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Prince of Egypt
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December
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An instant nativity
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January – 2017
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The Boy in the Temple
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The Miraclemaker
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February
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The Baptism
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The Miraclemaker
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March
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The Temptations
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The Miraclemaker
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April
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The two builders
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The Miraclemaker,
The Parables & Puppets and Parables
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May
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Call of disciples &
Matthew & Prodigal son
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The Miracle Maker, The
Parables & Puppets and Parables
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June
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The sower
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The Parables
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July
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The healing of the
paralytic
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The Miraclemaker
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August
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The Lost Sheep
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The Parables &
Puppets and Parables
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Year 2
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September
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The unforgiving
servant
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The Parables &
Puppets and Parables
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October
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Raising of the girl
– The persistant widow
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The Miraclemaker,
The Parables & Puppets and Parables
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November
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Workers in the
vineyard
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The Parables
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December
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The wise men &
gifts
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January 2015
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The rich farmer
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Puppets and Parables
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February
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Raising of Lazerus
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The Miraclemaker
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March
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Palm Sunday
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The Miraclemaker
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April
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Turning of the
tables – Paying taxes
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The Miraclemaker
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May
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The great banquet
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The Parables &
Puppets and Parables
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June
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The ten virgins
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The Parables
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July
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The Parables of
Talents
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The Parables &
Puppets and Parables
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August
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Unless you become
like children + The good Samaritan
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The Miraclemaker,The
Parables & Puppets and Parables
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Year 3
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September
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Anointing of Jesus +
the hidden pearl
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The Miraclemaker,The
Parables & Puppets and Parables
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October
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Last Supper
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The Miraclemaker
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November
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Garden of Gethsemane
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The Miraclemaker
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December
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Christingle
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January 2016
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Betrayal and Trials
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The Miraclemaker
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February
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Crucifixion
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The Miraclemaker
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March
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Resurrection – Mary
and Peter
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The Miraclemaker
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April
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Resurrection – Emmaus
and Thomas
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The Miraclemaker
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May
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Ascension
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The Miraclemaker
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June
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Pentecost
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The Video Bible - Acts
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July
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Cornelius
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The Video Bible
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August
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Conversion of Paul
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The Video Bible |
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Current Resources
Year C (Quarter 1)
Tea Time Church -
Widescreen
December (Year 3) - Christingles
Advent 2 -
Widescreen
December 8th - The message of the Prophets & Prepare the way of the Lord
Advent 3 -
Widescreen
December 15th - Expectancy, joy and hope & The development of John
Advent 4 -
Widescreen
December 22nd - Round orange, round orange & Who was Joseph
Christmas All Age -
Widescreen
A look at the Photo Album
Christmas Day -
Widescreen
December 25th - Christmas in a Candy Stick
Christmas 1 -
Widescreen
December 29th - Teenagers! & Shepherds!
Tea Time Church -
Widescreen
January (Year 3) - Betrayal and Trials
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