Visual timetable for churches

Helping you support people with additional needs

Ideas to help families worship together

A post-lockdown guide to Roots resources that facilitate families worshipping together  

Ideas on participation in worship

A post-lockdown guide to using Roots resources in a variety of worship contexts  

Bible study: The book that reads me

Dance, listen, sing, pray: starting points for worship

Rosemary Johnston outlines some general principles for us to consider when we prepare to bring the church family together in worship.

How to set up an intergenerational small group

Dr Sam Richards is head of children’s, youth and intergenerational discipleship for the United Reformed Church. She discovered the joy of intergenerational small groups in a fresh expression church (called mayBe) that rashly decided never to do anything just for the children!

Preaching the gospel for all ages: What it looks like and how to get started

Dave Csinos is Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and president of Faith Forward, an ecumenical organisation for innovation in ministry with children, youth, and families. He’s a teacher, researcher, writer, speaker, Baptist minister and father to three young children. Dave will be well known to Roots subscribers around the topic of Spiritual Styles and the research and teaching he did with Joyce Bellous about how we all approach worship and faith from four different styles.

This is for all of us: The power of intergenerational ministry

In the first of a new series on intergenerational ministry, Darren Philip explores what it is and why it matters.

‘I like the sound of intergenerational church BUT…’

In the second of our series on intergenerational ministry, Suzi Farrant addresses some possible objections.

Can we have a youth group and still be intergenerational?

Suzi Farrant explores how peer and intergenerational ministry can work together.

Skills for leading intergenerational worship

Rachel Turner, Discipleship Lead at Hope Church, Harrogate and founder of Parenting for Faith, explores how to frame and introduce elements of an intergenerational service to encourage connection and engagement.

Songs for everyone: Paying attention to what we sing together

Becky Drake explores how we can encounter God across the generations in sung worship.Together with her husband Nick, she founded Worship for Everyone, an intergenerational ministry resourcing churches, schools and homes with music and training.

Encouraging intergenerational faith communities to flourish through leadership

Tammy Preston was the founding pastor of an intergenerational faith community in Australia for 18 years and is a founding member of Intergenerate Australia/New Zealand. She is currently doing her PhD in Intergenerational Ministry at Cardiff University in Wales. Here, Tammy shares some of her research findings about effective intergenerational leadership.

Exploring the Bible with all ages

Ally Barrett considers the importance of planning for effective improvisation.