The Growing Younger team are here to help and support churches as they work to nurture faith, support families, and welcome children into the life of their church, whatever that looks like in their context.
The team are passionate about investing in churches, helping them pioneer fresh ways to connect with children and their parents while strengthening their current children’s work. The team want to support churches in creating meaningful pathways where children can safely explore their wonderings, grow alongside their families in relationship with Jesus Christ, and live out a confident, lasting faith.
Explore the range of practical resources dedicated to helping churches thrive as a multigenerational community. Visitors may also find some useful resources under the Youth and Young Adults webpage.
- Rural Missions: If you are in a rural parish, take a look at the fantastic resources that Rural Missions offer specifically for children, young people and families in their ‘resources cupboard’. They seek to equip and support rural churches across the UK to share God’s love with their local communities
- The Little Worship Company: Fantastic, high-quality multimedia resources designed to support grown-ups with a range of inspiring and entertaining media, built on a solid Bible curriculum
- Rise-Up Faith offers a fantastic, wide range of Jesus- centred curriculum and resources that can be used to fit your ministry. It takes a lot of stress out of hours of planning and supports you to plan confidently and lead with joy
- Faith in Kids offers loads of high-quality (often free) resources for parents and churches to help them raise children to trust Jesus. Take a look at their website, and you will find everything from Family Bible times, community event ideas, Sunday sessions and all-age talks. They have seasonal resources too for Halloween, Christmas, and Easter
- Flame Creative: Looking for some free creative and practical ideas, linked to specific themes, characters or bible stories? Take a look at Flame Creative; they have so many ideas, many of which are simple but effective. There are free printables too
- Scripture Union: Do you have a desire to help children and young people, both within and outside the church, discover Jesus? Scripture Union have created a wide range of resources for use across contexts such as schools, sports clubs, holiday clubs, churches and the great outdoors
- Parenting for Faith: A fantastic charity who have a great passion for equipping parents and carers to raise God-connected children and teens. They offer loads of resources and practical suggestions for parents, carers and grandparents, as well as resources for church leaders, children, youth and family leaders too
- Roots on the web are an ecumenical partnership offering a range of resources to help you explore the Bible, including lectionary materials, intergenerational ideas, prayer materials and visual timetables. You can find out more on their website
- Muddy Church: If you are looking for ways to connect with God in the great outdoors, then check out Muddy Church. They have a whole range of creative resources for helping everyone to use their outdoor space well, great as an intergenerational resource, kids clubs, community outreach and more. Check out what they offer on their website
- Care for the Family offers free, brilliant resources to encourage whole-life faith with the family at the centre. Check out their website for everything they provide. Here are some quick links to get you started:
- A whole church approach to family ministry – development tools designed to help you review and refresh your church activities in a way that builds a lasting faith
- Resources to support churches in engaging with families
- Resources to encourage the development of family faith at home
- Caring for creation resources and links
Schools
The 12 ways churches can partner with the church school and church schools can partner with their parish church.