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Babies and children are full members of the worshipping community.
They are disciples too.
'This is a serious book: serious about children; serious about worship; serious about spirituality; serious about God. Sharon Moughtin draws upon her own experience as a priest, a parent and a theologian, and on the time-honoured shape of the liturgy, to create patterns for worship that honour God, by enabling the tiniest worshippers to hear the word and respond in praise.
She offers enchanting and creative resources that will help to build the Church.’
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- Gill Ambrose, Consultant to the
Liturgical Commission and Chair
of Godly Play UK
Sowing Seeds isn’t designed to help children learn about being a Christian or about the Bible or about the Church. Sowing Seeds is Church for babies, toddlers, and young children. It’s worship in the same way as the main Sunday service in any church is worship.
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You can use the materials to build a service that reflects your main Sunday service as closely as possible: but using bodies, and song, and movement, and symbols to encourage even the youngest and most wriggly children to join in.​
Sowing Seeds aims to be part of what Rebecca Nye calls building ‘two-way bridges between the child’s spiritual insights and the traditional spiritual language of the church’.