Free webinar to prepare for Lent

January 12, 2017

The Building Faith website has been making some great resources for faith formation lately and here's another one. This free webinar is a middle-of-the-night thing for us here but normally registering for webinars means you can access the material at your own leisure after it's done. Here's the details from them...

Free pictures to use in your ministry...

January 12, 2017

Using visuals in worship is a no-brainer tool for our congregations. We use them in everything from worship booklets to PowerPoint presentations, posters and flyers.

But where can you get copyright free images to use in these instances?

Reviewing your day with God

January 12, 2017

So many of us go to bed at night with the day racing through our minds. We need a way to both reflect and let go. A daily examen is one way to to this. By reviewing the day that has passed, and preparing for tomorrow with the expectation of God’s continued care, we create the habit of...

“That God is three persons: Spirit in green to help us grow; Jesus in brown walking in the dirt; the Father in gold who created this beautiful earth.”

Teaching about the Trinity using art

January 12, 2017

Every now and then there comes a time for filling a gap in your work with children and young people in the Sunday School/Children's church program. The good people over at Building Faith website offer ideas here and there to help us with such moments.

This lesson from a year or two ago helps young people to think about the idea of...

Advent Ideas for you

October 31, 2016

Here's a bunch of advent ideas and resources to browse...

BIBLE360: Introduction to the Bible in Gympie

October 31, 2016

Want to learn more about the central book to your faith? Want to discover some tools which help with reading and understanding? How did they put this book together, anyway?

Angligreen resources for you

October 31, 2016

Get your November pew sheet inserts here, as well as info about the Earth Charter...

Fiona Hammond: New Formedfaith Staff!

October 31, 2016

There's no doubt the work of encouraging the faith growth of everyone in the diocese is important. A measure of this is that some funding has been located to enable us to get more done!

Fiona Hammond has been employed for three days a week to...

FAITH360: Praying in Anglican Ways happening here first!

September 26, 2016

Can you feel the excitement?

The first new module of The 360 Project, FAITH360: Praying in Anglican Ways is happening for the first time! It'll be a landmark event for...

Online training for 360 Project New Modules

September 26, 2016

Considering becoming a leader of the two new 360 Project modules, BIBLE360 Introduction to the Prophets and FAITH360: Praying in Anglican Ways? That role is available to clergy in the Anglican Church Southern Queensland diocese and suitable lay people appointed by them.

Free Intergenerational ideas

September 26, 2016

What is it like when your family gets together?, ot just one or two members but the whole tribe?

It's noisy, fun, challenging, inspirational, and...the list could go on and on. It sounds like the Church!

The Bible Project - free videos...

September 26, 2016

People are so visual these days that good resources are needed to draw people into a closer relationship with Scripture. One group creating such videos are The Bible Project.

Free Angligreen pew sheet content

September 26, 2016

Want to resource your parishioners with the latest events, news, ideas and strategies to enable us all to be better stewards of creation? Or just want some of those ideas yourself, for projects at your church?

Introducing Sparkhouse Family: Videos, books and more

June 21, 2016

Sparkhouse has long been a trusted provider of Christian education resources and curricula. In recent years, the animated video portions of these resources have drawn rave reviews. For the most part, Sparkhouse resources were usually purchased and used by churches or schools. What about families and households who want access to this material?

Pentecost Prayers without Wind or Fire?

May 10, 2016

With Pentecost this Sunday, I found a nice page of new prayers written by Maren C. Tirabassi, a 30 year veteran of curating worship and author of 18 books of liturgical resources. Her inspiration this year has been a community ravaged by bushfires; how do we celebrate Pentecost with new imagery that doesn’t involve fire and wind? She has produced some lovely material…

Here’s an example…

Let the Spirit come and sing and pray and laugh in us, O God. Let the Spirit come and be in the silences between our words. As our lungs and lips breathe in and out, may true needs, deep longings, unglimpsed hopes, and paralysing fears, be exhaled into your heart through the Spirit’s sighing. Let the Spirit come and lead us to one another so that we receive not just personal blessings, but the wonderful gathered vision and vocabulary of your Pentecost people. Amen.

You can find more here

New Preaching Resource

May 10, 2016

I want to highlight for you a new resource available from the Roscoe Library at St Francis Theological College Milton.

Fresh from the Word: a Preaching companion for Sundays, Holy Days and Festivals, years A,B and C is by Rosalind Brown, a canon at Durham Cathedral. This book collects...

Baptism prep materials: FREE!

March 14, 2016

Materials for use in baptism preparation are rife though there seems to be a lot out there that is, erm, not very useful.

Something good I saw recommended by Director of Mission, Stephen Harrison at the Anglican Schools Office is...

3 things you can do to stop child slavery this Easter

March 14, 2016

Many of our Easter Eggs are made with cocoa from plantations in West Africa that use trafficked children as young as 10 years old as labour. You can take simple steps this Easter to help end child trafficking in the chocolate industry.

Learning more about Jesus

February 15, 2016

Doing some research into resources for preparation for Confirmation, I was reminded of this project a number of us worked on a little while back. Developed by a group of Brisbane Anglicans, this series of engaging and thought provoking videos exploring...