CANTERBURY PRESS

This comprehensive collection offers ready-made short pastoral liturgies for hundreds of occasions. It includes blessings for a wide range of personal, family, church and civic occasions; house blessings; blessings of everyday objects and activities, and for occasions throughout the church and the school year.

An inspirational and practical guide for all who help to lead the intercessions in regular worship or offer prayers on specific occasions. It aims to empower and equip lay people and clergy alike to offer heartfelt, informed, thoughtful and appropriate prayers on behalf of the people of God for God's world.

Never be stuck for ideas for children's worship again with this collection for Year C! Here are 60 ready-to-use scripts to open up the Sunday Gospel for children of all ages, with activities, games, ready to use children's liturgies, and reproducible artwork and cartoons on the accompanying CD-ROM.

A resource book brimming with stories, techniques and ideas for creative mission that engage children and young people. Based on extensive experience working with young people in churches, schools and youthwork settings, here is a toolkit to help in that first point of contact with young people, and the first steps in evangelism.

A wise, timely and practical handbook that meets the urgent need for resources for ministry among the elderly. Written out of the author's own experience as a chaplain to a residential care community, it is suitable for ministers who visit the elderly, chaplains, pastoral visitors, caregivers, and all who help train others in elderly pastoral care.

This vital resource draws on the vast experience of the L'Arche community to offer practical guidance and ideas for imaginative worship that engages people with learning and other disabilities.

Drawing on the riches of Persian culture and her own dramatic experience of loss of a homeland, Guli Francis-Dehqani offers memorable and perceptive reflections on Jesus' seven final sayings from the cross, opening up for Western readers fresh and arresting insights from a Middle Eastern perspective.

Crowning the Year will equip all who lead or assist with worship in rural contexts. It offers some essential groundwork on liturgical theology, and a theology of ministry in rural, multi-parochial contexts, providing practical ideas and direction on how to prepare for and conduct worship for the principal feasts and seasons of the Christian year.