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Ideas for Ministry

TaylorTroutmanFaculty members, students and graduates of  Union Presbyterian Seminary will post short articles here on how to use children and youth books in a variety of settings, as well as  bibliographies on themes of particular interest in the lives of children and youth.  In addition, we will occasionally invite readers to share what they are doing with books in their own contexts – be it church or home or anywhere else!

If you have bibliographies you would like to request, or want more ideas about such things as how to use books in the home, in intergenerational settings, or one on one with a child, please let us know by clicking on the Contact Us tab on the home page and sending a request.

Christmas Gift Dilemma

11 December 2009, Comment are Off
It’s that time of year in the church when we ponder the birth of Jesus and  think lofty thoughts about God’s immanence and transcendence, and then we wake from our reverie only to realize that we have yet to buy those Christmas presents that our little ones are so eagerly...

Lesson Plans: Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself (Pt. 2)

09 December 2009, Comment are Off
This is the second session of a two part teaching plan to help a multi-age group of children consider Jesus’ commandment to love one another.  This session plan uses The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss as a starting point. Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself Session 2 This is the...

Lesson Plans: Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself

08 December 2009, 8 Comments
The older I get, the more convinced I am that much of my personality (shyness, introversion, lack of confidence) took roots in my earliest years and were formed largely by the treatment I received from my peers and my reactions to them.  I think that’s why I’m so...

Selecting Children’s Christmas Books

23 November 2009, Comment are Off
I recently did a search on a large, online shopping website for “children’s Christmas books”.  What resulted was a list of 12,658 said books, but as I started to sift through them I quickly realized just how few actually deserve to be in this category.  The vast majority should...

Dr. Seuss Goes to Church: Daisy-Head Mayzie

19 November 2009, Comment are Off
The last is a series of four lesson plans using books by Dr. Seuss, this lesson reminds us that God loves each of God’s children with a love that is deeper, wider, and higher than any human love we can ever imagine. The last page of this lesson lists ten more books by Dr. Seuss...

Tell Them a Story: Recommended Books

09 November 2009, 1 Comment
“When our children ask us in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded us?’  then we will say to our children…” (Deut. 6:20) What?… What will we say? Tell them a story....

Dr. Seuss Goes to Church:Bartholomew and the Oobleck

04 November 2009, Comment are Off
This is the second in a series of four lesson plans for children built around the books of Dr. Seuss.   The original post with the first lesson can be found here. Dr. Seuss Goes to Church: Bartholomew and the Oobleck  Bartholomew can help us learn about asking for and receiving...

Why Should We Care About Children’s and Adolescent Books in the Church?

24 October 2009, 11 Comments
We are “people of the Book.”  That’s a familiar phrase to most Christians, particularly to Presbyterians like us (Becky and Pamela). Of course, in the phrase, “the Book” refers specifically to the Bible – we Christians are people whose identities and lives are shaped by the book...
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