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Intergenerational Faith Community | Intergenerate Australia

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Welcome to Intergenerate Australia. Our mission is to support Intergenerational Faith Communities.

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A network for those in the UK engaged in Intergenerational Church

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Provides some good free resources for use in services.

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Resources, links and ideas

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Equipping churches to build Christ-centered intergenerational communities through proven training, resources, and ministry support.

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Nick & Becky Drake - Worship for Everyone

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Nick & Becky Drake - Worship for Everyone

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For church leaders, children's workers and worship leaders

A practical guide bursting with ideas and resources

Brings all ages together so worship is fun, engaging and memorable for every generation

Multi-generational worship is important for most church leaders, children's workers and worship leaders - but how can you truly engage everyone so that all age worship can thrive in your church?

Worship for Everyone is a practical guide bursting with ideas and resources, and that offers an inspiring vision crucial for bringing longevity and life to all age worship.

Nick and Becky Drake, pioneers and experts in multi-generational ministry, provide a theology for bringing all ages together that draws on their years of experience. Alongside this they give advice and tips on running multi-generational worship sessions and dealing with the many challenges that church face is producing good all age worship.

Worship for Everyone contains all the resources pastors, children's workers and church leaders need to run all age worship services. Service plans, talks, recommended songs, Bible readings and more are all brought together, so you can make your all age worship fun, engaging and memorable for every generation.

Worship For Everyone by Nick Drake;Becky Drake was published by SPCK in June 2021 and is our 1930th best seller.

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Worship For Everyone 9780281085873 | Free & Fast Delivery at Eden

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For church leaders, children's workers and worship leaders A practical guide bursting with ideas and resources Brings all ages together so worship is fun, engaging and memorable for every generation Multi-generational worship is important for most church leaders, children's workers and worship leaders - but how can you truly engage everyone so that all age worship can thrive in your church?

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Sensory Resources for Easter and Christmas

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Sensory Resources for Easter and Christmas

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Sensory stories for Christmas and Easter. Sensory prayer activities for under 5's.

Multi-sensory Easter.

All resources are free.

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You searched for sensory - Blackburn Diocesan Board of Education

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Serve Christ, Share the Gospel, Support, Equip and Educate

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Ministering to older adults with Alzheimer's and other dementias.

Contains resources for church services, Bible studies and more.

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Spiritual Eldercare offers guidance and free resources to meet the spiritual needs of elders, especially those with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Access interactive, dementia-friendly Bible studies, nondenominational worship services, classic sing-along hymns and spirituals, and more to help you walk alongside and bring joy to the souls of elders.

Elisa Bosley, Chaplain

Hi there! My name is Amanda and I am the Activities Director at a Skilled Nursing Facility in Missouri. Every Wednesday we host a "virtual non-denominational church service" using your videos. Our residents absolutely love it, and we continue to get more interested residents every week. Please don't stop what you are doing! You are amazing and we couldn't be more grateful!

What a blessing you are to countless people and their families, Elisa! I just discovered your website yesterday through Teepa Snow's staff. My Mom has been asking for just these types of resources for a few years since her hearing, sight and cognitive decline have become more significant. ... The resources you offer would give us something to interact with together as well as for her to just listen to and be refreshed by. God bless you as you minister to those He truly loves in the midst of their unique life challenges.

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Spiritual Eldercare offers guidance and free resources to meet the spiritual needs of elders, especially those with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Access interactive, dementia-friendly Bible studies, nondenominational worship services, classic sing-along hymns and spirituals, and more to help you walk alongside and bring joy to the souls of elders.

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Children and Family Ministry - BRF incorporating Faith in Homes

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Children and Family Ministry - BRF incorporating Faith in Homes

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Children and Family Ministry - BRF incorporating Faith in Homes

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Children and Family Ministry - BRF incorporating Faith in Homes. 763 likes. Faith in Homes is an area of The Bible Reading Fellowship offering ideas and resources to support families to live out the…

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Worship for Everyone - Nick & Becky Drake

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Worship for Everyone - Nick & Becky Drake

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Worship for Everyone - A Journal for All Ages

A four-week guide unpacking biblical themes with accompanying Worship for Everyone songs, and giving creative space and ideas for connecting with God through words, drawings, prayers, and action.

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Worship for Everyone - Songs for Schools and Churches

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A four-week guide unpacking biblical themes with accompanying Worship for Everyone songs, and giving creative space and ideas for connecting with God through words, drawings, prayers, and action.

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Welcome, value and integrate sensory needs into corporate worship and the life of the church.

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Learn to welcome, value and integrate sensory needs into corporate worship and the life of the church.

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From only £6, these images will help your church create a visual timetable and cues for what is coming up.

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Helping you support people with additional needs

With a visual timetable, people with additional needs can see:

what's going to happen

what's coming up next

what they might need to do.

This can reduce anxiety, decrease frustration and increase general comprehension and communication.

Many schools already use visual timetables with great success. Now Roots has developed a visual timetable for churches - depicting many common activities in Christian services and groups.
Read more about using a visual timetable

NEW Roots visual timetable

50 image cards featuring 45 different scenarios - with some activities (eg singing) repeated so that you can make a full timetable

Choose our handy box of cards for one-to-one support

Also available as a digital download that you can project, or print at the size you choose

How to get your Visual timetable for churches

Digital download

Card pack

£6 inc VAT

£12 inc VAT, plus postage and handling

Card dimensions: 56 x 87mm

At the moment, the physical card pack is available to UK customers only. We're working on making it more widely available soon.

Please allow 1 week for dispatch.

Using a visual timetable

Choose cards to represent the elements or activities you have planned for your session.

Use reusable velcro tape or Blu Tack to attach the cards to a suitable display board.

You might wish to display all the cards at once, or you may prefer to show 'what's now' and 'what's next'. If you're supporting someone on a one-to-one basis, you could encourage them to pick out the correct cards as you go along.

You can create your own display board or buy a ready-made one. Here are some examples of ready-made boards:
Please note: we offer these external links for your reference and they should not imply endorsement.

This visual timetable has been developed in collaboration with Mark Arnold, Additional Needs Ministry Director at Urban Saints. Mark's article, Going beyond inclusion, unpacks how we can move from Accessibility to Inclusion to Belonging as we welcome and support people with additional needs and disabilities in our churches. You'll be able to read it with a free trial to Roots resources.

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Helping you support people with additional needs With a visual timetable, people with additional needs can see: what's going to happen what's coming up next what they might need to do. This can reduce anxiety, decrease frustration and increase general comprehension and communication. Many schools already use visual timetables with great success.

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Songs have the power to express and change how we feel as individuals and within groups - no matter what age we are. We believe in the transformative power of song in children's lives to improve their health and wellbeing.

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Messy Church is a way of being church for families and others. It is Christ-centred, for all ages, based on creativity, hospitality and celebration.

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This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there!

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Intergenerational Church Webinars - Church of Scotland

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Intergenerational Church Webinars - Church of Scotland

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Intergenerational Church Webinar Dec 2020 Part 1

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Muddy Church is an intergenerational idea, based on groups discovering the gifts in their community.

The heart of Muddy Church is to offer spaces to 'wander and wonder' together.

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Christian Meditations for all ages

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Taketime Meditations - Christian Meditations

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Encounter Jesus now No religious knowledge or background needed Help us keep Taketime audio meditations free - donate here Testimonies

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Provides programmes and outlines for churches

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In the early 2000s I worked with my colleagues Mariette Martineau, Leif Kehrwald, and Joan Weber to develop a model of intergenerational learning that could be used for all ages (intergenerational)…

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Upcoming Oct 7th 2025, 7.30-9pm Intergenerational spaces: beyond Sundays with special guests Jen Robertson and … Booking opens soon Previous Leadership in Intergenerational Church. Preaching …

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“Faith is learned when it is woven seamlessly into the fabric of daily family life.” This comes from the introductory chapter of Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home, written by the Rev. Traci Smith and published by Chalice Press. The Faithful Family series empowers families to practice their faith every

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Intergenerational Preaching, with Dave Csinos

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Intergenerational Preaching, with Dave Csinos

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S2E6 Intergenerational preaching, with Dave Csinos

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Formational Worship: Developing a Practice Mindset for All Ages to Participate

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Formational Worship: Developing a Practice Mindset for All Ages to Participate

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Intergenerational Worship - The Institute For Worship Studies

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Intergenerational worship seeks to bring all generations together as equal, valued participants in the divine relationship of the triune God.

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What Does the Bible say about Intergenerational Ministry

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What Does the Bible say about Intergenerational Ministry

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What Does the Bible say about Intergenerational Ministry? - Refocus Ministry

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Does the Bible talk about intergenerational ministry? How about generational discipleship? Is there a biblical basis for this new craze sweeping the children’s ministry and family ministry worlds? Let’s check it out!

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Spiritual Styles: creating an environment to nurture spiritual wholeness

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Spiritual Styles: creating an environment to nurture spiritual wholeness

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Spiritual styles: creating an environment to nurture spiritual wholeness

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Children need to sense that their way of being spiritual is honoured within learning environments that nurture the human spirit. This assertion rests on two assumptions: that children have differen…

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Is your church intentionally intergenerational?

I have the privilege to be teaching a BGST course on "Spiritual Adulting: Nurturing Emerging Adults in an Intergenerational Context" together with my Graceworks colleague, Wei Hao. This is a course that started life as one on ministry to young adults. However, as we reflected further, we realised that we needed to help all the generations understand each other in order to minimise conflict and to help them contribute their unique strengths and insights to the ministry of the church. This is such a critical subject but it seems that it is not near getting the attention it deserves. Maybe it would help to have some clarity as to the what and why.

What is intergenerational ministry? Here are the definitions of a number of similar-sounding phenomena:

1. Multigenerational - there is tolerance living alongside, with superficial and polite interaction;

2. Cross-generational - there is some sharing, listening, and learning, but little individual or collective transformation;

3. Intergenerational - there is comprehensive mutuality, equality, and reciprocity that makes individual or collective transformation more likely.
Intergenerational ministry occurs when a congregation intentionally combines the generations together in mutual serving, sharing, or learning within the core activities of the church in order to live out being the body of Christ to each other and the greater community.
(Holly Catterton Allen and Chris Barnett)

But why should we bother with intergenerational ministry? Moving in the direction of intergenerational ministry will take a lot of work. We need to be clear as to why we need to take it seriously. I am grateful for this article by Alissa Ellett and suggest you read it in full. She gives five reasons why we need to take intergenerational ministry seriously. Here are some excerpts:

1. Intergenerational Ministry Provides Varied Leadership Perspectives
When your group of leaders has a diverse range of background and context, the same will be true of the wider church. And, as a result, your church will meet the needs of more demographics by way of intergenerational ministry.

2. Intergenerational Ministry Offers Fresh Ideas
Intergenerational ministry gives space for members of all ages to share what they hope for and imagine. First, when one age group is privileged over all others, things remain relatively constant. This is lovely and comfortable and nostalgic for that group. However, what has always been done is often not best for progress and church growth.

3. Intergenerational Ministry Includes the Marginalized
Many times, those not catered to in ministry have lost their voices. As a result, they don't have a platform for sharing their hopes and needs. Therefore, the church isn't able to see and hear the marginalized. This means they likely won't stick around. And who can blame them for leaving?

4. Intergenerational Ministry Creates Connections
We are communal creatures who have spent almost our entire history living in multigenerational groups. We thrive in this environment as we hear stories of where we've come from and who we are. Especially as families spread around the country and globe we lose this connection.

5. Intergenerational Ministry Fosters Spiritual Formation
Throughout scripture, faith is an intergenerational reality. The young and old learn from and care for each other. They challenge one another to release their assumptions, think differently, and to practice compassion. Even today, thousands of years later, we read the scriptures told and retold by our spiritual ancestors. It turns out that Bible reading itself is intergenerational.

Ellett's reasons are very compelling.

We live in a unique time in history where at least five generations are living and needing to work together.

Silent (Born 1928-45)

Baby boomer (Born 1946-64)

Generation X (Born 1965-1980)

Millennials (Born 1981-1996)

Generation Z (Born 1997-2012)

Each generation has been shaped by different formative forces and this has resulted in a situation where each generation views life and faith somewhat differently. While we don't want to over-exaggerate the differences between the different generations, neither do we want to ignore them. Indeed, we need to go beyond seeing the generational differences as a problem but as a strength. Intergenerational ministry, if handled well, holds the promise of a church more mature than at any other point in history. We will give updates on intergenerational ministry in subsequent articles.

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Is your church intentionally intergenerational? I have the privilege to be teaching a BGST course on "Spiritual Adulting: Nurturing Emerging Adults in an Intergenerational Context" together with my Graceworks colleague, Wei Hao. This is a course that started life as one on ministry t

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Intentional Intergenerational Ministry | Association of Partners in Christian Education

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Intergenerational worship is worship in which people of every age are understood to be equally important. Each generation has the same significance before the face of God and in the worshiping congregation. . . . Each and all are the church of now.

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IntergenerateUK Podcast with Roots for Churches

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IntergenerateUK Podcast with Roots for Churches

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Roots for Churches have created a series of podcasts (series 2) of talks with people involved with intergenerational ministry.

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New Season 2 trailer – Intergenerate UK X Roots Collab

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Build Faith - Intergenerational and Ministry Resources

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Build Faith - Intergenerational and Ministry Resources

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Equip. Teach. Form.

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Intergenerational Worship & Ministry Resources

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Roots & Wings: Intergenerational Formation Collaborative (R&W) is a five-year grant awarded to VTS by Lilly Endowment, Inc. through the organization’s Nurturing Children in Worship and Prayer Initiative. Our leadership team has chosen to focus our work on empowering congregations to practice vibrant intergenerational worship because we believe that a worshipping assembly incarnates the fullness of the body of Christ when all bodies across all ages participate together…

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Building Faith - Intergenerational Worship Toolkit

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Building Faith - Intergenerational Worship Toolkit

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Hallmarks of Intergenerational Worship Toolkit

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The Hallmarks of Intergenerational Worship Toolkit is designed to help you reflect and assess the levels of intergenerationality in your church’s worship services.

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Back in 2018 Rachael and Vanessa went to Spring Harvest in Harrogate. As they set off, their minister challenged them; "fix all-age worship!"

After attending a seminar led by Nick and Becky Drake (Worship for Everyone), a vision for ENCOUNTER emerged over a pizza.

Back in their home town of Hull, they planned the next all-age service and it was a success. Katy enthusiastically joined the team later - and now the group want to share their vision with you and your church.

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Free resources and ideas to help you plan inclusive worship in your own church setting. Interactive talks, prayer activities, song suggestions and more.