All-age service

It’s a well know fact that all-age services take me right outside my comfort zone.  I led one of Easter Sunday morning which even included communion, and it seems to have been fairly well appreciated. Leave aside the extra work and thought beforehand, which I estimate at about 10 times that of a normal service, and [...]

Response of hopeful people

Bit of an early start today because I was leading an open-air ecumenical Sunrise Service at 6am.  It was cold and dark and muddy!  I fond this reasonable responsive reading to use: 
When we are despairing;

when the world is full of grief;

when we see no way ahead,

and hope has gone away: [...]