Resources on Carolyn C Brown

Joan Huyser-Honig | Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

In this article, Carolyn C. Brown talks about intergenerational worship and in particular she draws attention to exploring ways pastors and worship leaders can include children in corporate worship.

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Worship, Intergenerational Issues, Parenting, Community

Teaching Kids Worship Skills

Carolyn C Brown | Ministry Matters

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn C. Brown proposes the need to identify what children need to be able to do, know, and understand in order to participate in gathered worship and encourages intentionality in equipping them for those things.

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Worship, Teaching, Congregation, Children

Children's Church: Gateway, Not Detour

Carolyn C Brown | Ministry Matters

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn C. Brown argues children should be in the sanctuary for part of worship gatherings so that they begin to view worship as a life-long activity into which they grow. She also provides examples for inclusion.

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Worship, Congregation, Parenting, Children

Infant Nurseries and the Worshiping Child

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article provides ideas for creating an infant nursery that introduces children to various aspects of the worship service and encourages spiritual learning through visual displays, biblical images, and worship music.

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Worship, Children, Infants, Worship Space

A New Song

Carolyn C Brown | Re-Worship

Scripture Drama or Paraphrase

Carolyn Brown's arrangement of Psalm 96 into a three-voice litany. "Sing to the Lord, bless the Lord’s name; tell of God’s salvation from day to day."

Psalm 96

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Worship, Glory, Heaven, Singing

Ten Commandments for Children

Carolyn C Brown | Re-Worship

Scripture Drama or Paraphrase

A children’s version of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-20; Deuteronomy 5:6-21) written by Carolyn Brown. "Don’t make pictures or statues that you think look like me and worship them. You’ll get them wrong."

Exodus 20:1-20; Deuteronomy 5:6-21

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Ten Commandments, Worship, Children

That Time With the Children!

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article for worshiping with children offers ways to improve the times in the service directed towards involving children in worship and suggests intentionally incorporating ways for them to participate throughout the service.

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Worship, Sermon, Children, Time

Worship Etiquette

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article on worshiping with children offers some helpful guidelines for acceptable and unacceptable behavior for children during a time of corporate worship.

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Worship, Congregation, Parenting, Worship Planning

Summer Worship Experiments

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article provides ideas for ways to change a worship service for a temporary season by introducing more opportunities for service and participation by the congregation, including children.

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Worship, Scripture Reading, Children, Worship Planning

Praying in Color

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article suggests helping children engage with worship and prayer through using their hands to draw and write out their ideas of a theme or topic within a previous scribbled mess.

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Worship, Children, How To Pray

I Will Sing to My God All My Life

Carolyn C Brown | Re-Worship

Prayer

An intergenerational litany based on Psalm 146. It itemizes many reasons why the Lord is worthy of praise.

Psalm 146

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Worship, Praise, Children, Trust

Why Children Belong in the Sanctuary

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article for worshiping with children explains why and how we should include children in congregational worship.

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Worship, Congregation, Belonging, Intergenerational Issues

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Tender Shepherd©

Taking Field Trips in Worship

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Children's Sermon or Lesson

Carolyn Brown's article for worshiping with children encourages worship planners to creatively include children in worship by giving them a "tour" of the sanctuary, explaining the significance of items that are included in the worship service.

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Worship, Worship Space, Children, Worship Planning

Children, Money, and the Sanctuary

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article for worshiping with children presents ways that children can be encouraged and trained to be cheerful givers from a young age.

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Money, Worship, Offering, Parenting

What Do You Do When the Worship Theme is NOT Child Friendly?

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Preaching, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article offers practical suggestions on how to draw children in when the main theme of worship on a particular day is not very child friendly.

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Worship, Worship Planning, Families, Intergenerational Issues

Worship Writing

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article for worshiping with children suggests giving children worship bags when they begin attending worship full time to encourage them to explore creative ways to record their worship experience through art, poetry, and prayers....

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Worship, Writing, Parenting, Children

Congregational Worship as a Dress Rehearsal for Living in Communion with God

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Book Quote, Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article for worshiping with children suggests that we seek to include children in congregational worship with the goal of helping them to acquire and practice skills for living in relationship with God every day....

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Worship, Congregation, Communion With God, Relationship

Practicing Church at Home

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Service Outline or Song Suggestions and 6 more types

Carolyn Brown's article offers an outline for practicing church at home when winter weather or illnesses keep the family home. This outline includes many of the typical worship elements found in a service.

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Family, Worship, Church, Home

Twelve Things Children Miss When They Aren't in the Congregation

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article for worshiping with children highlights the value of including children in congregational worship by offering a list of valuable things they miss when they are excluded.

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Worship, Congregation, Parenting, Children

Illustrating the Bulletin for Children

Carolyn C Brown | Worshiping With Children

Article about Worship and the Sacraments, Article about Children or Youth Ministry

Carolyn Brown's article for worshiping with children offers ideas for bulletins that include picture worship guides to help children engage in worship.

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Worship, Art, Illustration