•Practical and imaginative ideas for round-the-year worship and mission•A focus throughout on all-age participation•Full instructions on all arts and crafts projects Go Create suggests dozens of creative ideas for outreach through the Christian year and at special times like Easter and Harvest so that local churches can engage imaginatively with their communities.From drama to graffiti art, from making videos on a shoestring to Messy Church type crafts and creating local community exhibitions, Rob Rawson aims to give confidence to everyone who is seeking ways to create more participatory, multi-sensory outreach events, but doesn't know where to start.A year's worth of outreach projects are provided, together with complete step-by-step instructions on how to make and create the art and craft elements, along with reflection on how the Christian festivals can be used to create good opportunities for mission and evangelism.
Go Create aims to encourage congregations to explore using arts and crafts in worship and outreach, not only to discover and enjoy their God-given talents but also to reach out to their communities with the good news of the gospel in lively and imaginative ways.
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Go Create is a book written to stimulate creativity in outreach. Written in an easy style with a light touch, it is clear, practical and helpful. It gives a variety of ideas to get you thinking and then down to earth instruction to enable you to make it happen. It will make a difference to how a church views its outreach and also will make outreach enjoyable! -- Rev Colin Sinclair, former chairman of Scripture Union International and Moderator Designate (2019-20) of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Introduction
How to use this book
1. New Year
2. St Valentines Day
3. Lent
4. Palm Sunday
Drama: A Palm Sunday story
5. Good Friday
6. Easter
7. Pentecost
Drama: Birthday blues!
8. Harvest
9. Remembrance
10. Advent
11. Christmas
12. Special occasions
How to section
13. Banners and timelines
14. Easy-peasy crafts
15. Pancake art
16. Paint, pastels and palettes
17. Graffiti art
18. Drama made easy honest!
19. Video helping to avoid an amateurish look!
20. Where to from here?
ROB RAWSON is a Mission Development Worker for the Church of Scotland and is based in Stirlingshire. In a former life he was an actor and presenter, before moving into teaching, followed by a lengthy career in youth ministry. He is married with four children and serves as an elder and worship leader in Callander Kirk. When he is not tinkering with model railways, he also supports his wife in running the local Messy Church.
