SU Victoria

The CD of resources to help you run the Hide and Seek Program.
Includes lyrics, sheet music, information for use of music and the music to all songs.

A super CD Rom of interactive games that teach young children about Jesus and scripture. By Beth Barnett (Party On, Hide and Seek, Question Mark) and Brendan Petty (Snack Music).

Another great program by Beth Barnett. Focusing on the gospel of Luke Party On is an interactive multi-learning type program for primary aged children. Combines Barnett’s gifts for music, imagination and bringing scripture to life for children.
Widely used in mission programs, holiday programs and Sunday programs.
See also the CD Rom with scripture based interactive games.

By Melbourne’s Beth Barnett, the top selling mission/holiday’sunday school program
for primary age kids. Scripture, music, movement and activities, interactive and catering to all learning types! One of our most popular programs, it is adaptable to different contexts and groups. See also the accompanying resource CD for all the music and resources to supplement the book.

From Melbourne ministers and musicians, Beth Barnett and Jude Waldron, a most beloved collection of songs for children at Christmas. Master sheets of lyrics included for group events. Book, CD and cassette available.
Each item is $10

By Stephanie Jeffs (of Practical Ways with Christmas Plays) and John Haysom, this is a beautifully illustrated and worded re-telling of the Christmas story for a new generation of readers. This special book really captures the wonder and beauty of this event and is a great book for reading to children during the Advent season.

By Denise Harris, this book offers seven Christmas dramas that require few props and minimal rehearsal.
The reproducible resouces include poems, prayers, speeches and an Advent worship service.

From Stephanie Jeffs and Bible Reading Fellowship, five Christmas plays for ages 7-11.
Includes comprehensive preparation advice and material, flexible casting capacity, choral narratives and photocopy permission. Also extension materials including songs, poems and Bible readings.

By Susan L Lingo
101 fun use-them-anyway games using 14 everyday items.
Games are designed to help children get to know each other better, build friendships, burn off extra energy (!), encourage teamwork and cooperation and create a welcoming atmosphere.
But most of all – they are FUN!

From the brilliant St Luke’s range, 28 full colour card featuring a herd of delightful dinosaurs with an important message for kids of all ages: we all need and are capable of developing important skills such as safety skills, friendship skills, decision-making skills and good manners. For anyone working with children these are most effective and clear way of communicating really important stuff to kids who might otherwise struggle with the concepts.

The for-under-fives Tiddlywinks series has bought out a prayer book just for the little folk. A great addition to this vibrant and now extensive series.

Recommended by Children and Families Ministry leader and trainer Chris Barnett, Rebecca Nye explores what children’s spirituality is and why IT MATTERS!
‘A powerful reaffirmation and exploration of the importance of childhood spirituality for the ministry and mission of the church, which will be welcomed by all working in this field’.
Alister McGrath

Over 250 action songs, rhymes and prayers to get the kids in your group, club, class or program active and loving the Lord!

Over 200 action songs, rhymes and prayers to enhance and energise your worship and learning time with kids!

From the author of All Age Worship and some of our most popular children’s ministry titles, this resource contains ten sequential sessions that can be used as individual components as needed. This most beloved prayer is explored with a wealth of ideas that allow to children to know and pray the pray Jesus gave is with joy and understanding.

Would you know the best and most practical ways to start helping a child who was undergoing a crisis? From the Group christian publishing house comes this most valuable book on rapid-response strategies to crisis situations. With real life narratives, care and counseling tips, tips for your team and guides to appropriate language and approaches. Covers situations from kids whose parents are divorcing to kids from families who have to move house, now; to those who have lost a parent.

This neat 10-pack provides you with 10 hand out booklets containing important primary tips to your co-workers or volunteers on working with children who have special needs.
From Group Ministry, it’s another high quality and genuinely useful product that will aid any ministry person or team to special kids.

By Tracey Beckerleg, this book is a ripper! Play is a VITAL way for children with special needs to develop sensory awareness of the world around them. Through the use of every day items Beckerleg provides ideas and strategies for stimulating the senses and imagination of children who might find other activities intimidating or challenging.

101 creative craft ideas for UNDER 5s from the super Tiddlywinks range. High quality, Biblically based material from Scripture Union –
specifically designed to serve children in the earliest years of their growth and formation.

Wise advice to help you guide a child on their journey with God.
Explores the varied ways in which Bible characters responded to Jesus. Also looks at practical issues such as rites of passage and family influence. Another very helpful set of pithy and concise tips from the Top Tips series.

Pithy and practical pointers for anyone working with children and young people. Easy to read, easy to understand and easy to share with others.

From the Top Tips range, a booklet that offers scriptural background, encouragement and practical advice and ideas for integrating special needs kids fully into the life of the church and community.
A typically pithy and concise collection of very helpful ‘bites’ of information and ideas.

Simon Bass assists those who have special needs kids in their group or community, to integrate children with disabilities into the life and worship of the church.
Includes information on disabilities and medical conditions, special needs ettiquette and appropriate language, supporting the families of special needs children and resources that can be accessed.

Over 40 pick-up-and-use ideas for acts of collective worship, designed particularly for use with special needs kids. Each unit comes with full instructions and notes for the leader, with suggested props, songs and prayers.
Includes photocopiable materials for students.

A wealth of ideas and information to help facilitate motivating and meaningful Christian content learning sessions with Autistic children or children with severe or complex learning disabilities.
The book comprises theory, experience and practical resources and is an invaluable guide for anyone working with groups of children.

Over 200 rhymes and songs to use with pre-schoolers: from the justifiably popular Tidddlywinks series!

101 creative prayer ideas for pre-schoolers – from the Tiddlywinks series.

These high quality, Bible-based resources are specifically designed to help you encourage children in their earliest years to grow in faith. Clearly linked with Early Learning Goals, they will equip you to provide a firm, fun foundation for life. 25 Multi-purpose outlines provide ideas for play, prayer, craft, stories and rhymes from which you can pick and choose to meet the particular needs of your group. There’s also plenty of practical advice on setting up and running a pre-school group as well as ideas in every session to help you include adult carers.
Orange themes: All creatures great and small; Friends of God; Stories of Jesus

Previously published as Here’s One I Made Earlier, this fantastic resource has been republished due to ongoing demand. Hundreds of craft ideas to help children LOVE learning about the scriptures and Christianity. Fully indexed for finding an activity to suit whatever theme you are working on.

Previously published as 300 Games For All Occasions, this very popular resource from the Ultimate series provides 302 ideas for games. It caters for numerous contexts and groups sizes and is a most valuable addition to any children and youth ministry resource collection.

Another of the very popular Ultimate series, this book provides ideas and strategies for prayer sessions with children and young people that are stimulating and inspired.

Logosdor and Oasis take kids inside the world of Powerbox 4, an imaginary Rock Band who live an alternative Jesus-fused lifestyle! Includes 3 Mission sessions, 3 Discipleship sessions and 3 Ministry sessions and a final Celebration session.
Includes leaders guide and CD Rom with everything needed to run this vibrant and active program.

Logosdor and the Oasis team once again bring us a fantastic 10-session kids program, this time inviting children to get to know God as a most loving and relational friend – and it’s set the backyard shed!
Includes 3 Mission sessions, 3 discipleship sessions and 3 Ministry sessions and a final Celebration session.
Includes eaders guide and CD Rom with everything needed to run this vibrant and active program.

Peter the fisherman met Jesus and was changed forever!
Another brilliant Oasis (Logosdor) program with 10 sessions of vibrant and active Bible learning for kids, based around fishy themes!
Includes leader’s guide and CD Rom with all you need to run great program.

One of the current ministries being developed here at Scripture Union is the development and growth of mutually beneficial relationships between schools and churches. Intended for church leaders, lay ministers, parents and childrens’ ministry workers, this book by Margaret Withers encourages churches to see engagement with their local schools as part of their service to the community God has placed them amongst.

From Lucy Moore, the author of the Lord’s Prayer Unplugged and the Messy Church series (also available at SU Vic – see the website), a fantastic resource on creating truly inclusive All Age worship. It’s not an easy task but this latest addition to our collection of resources on this topic sets out a compelling vision of all-age worship, full of inspiration while being wonderfully practical.

Would your primary age child choose to pick up the Bible – and read it independently with interest and enjoyment?
They will now….!
Fully illustrated in the globally recognisable Manga style

Would your primary age child choose to pick up the Bible – and read it independently with interest and enjoyment?
They will now….!
Fully illustrated in the globally recognisable Manga style

Would your primary age child choose to pick up the Bible – and read it independently with interest and enjoyment?
They will now….!
Fully illustrated in the globally recognisable Manga style

Would your primary age child choose to pick up the Bible – and read it independently with interest and enjoyment?
They will now….!
Fully illustrated in the globally recognisable Manga style

Would your primary age child choose to pick up the Bible – and read it independently with interest and enjoyment?
They will now….!
Fully illustrated in the globally recognisable Manga style

Would your primary age child choose to pick up the Bible – and read it independently with interest and enjoyment?
They will now….!
Fully illustrated in the globally recognisable Manga style

The very popular Big Bible Storybook beautifully told on 6 CD’s.
188 Bible stories to develop the understanding, knowledge and listening skills of the children you live or work with.

When was the last time the children in your home or ministry opened up the psalms or proverbs out of interest and spontaneously chatted to you about the content? The Magnifies are full of colour and relevance for the mid-late primary age group and can get kids not only reading the Bible, but talking out it!

This FANTASTIC kids’ magazine style New Testament has helped many kids find real interest and joy in a book they formerly found difficult and obscure. Used as part of church programs or at home, this Biblezine is full of colour and relevance for the mid-late primary age group.

Highly recommended by CTM and BUV children’s ministry staff, these fantatic books present the text of the Bible in a brilliant format kids recognise as their own type of medium.
Having trouble getting kids (mid-late primary) to LIKE reading the Bible?
The Magnifies have a reputation for achieving exactly that!

It is in their pre-teens that many children begin to ask questions about their church life and their faith: increasingly independent in a secular culture, they face choices everyday…the central one being one of faith: do I want to be part of the community I have grown up in, or….
This study is designed to explain that crossroad to grade five and six children, to equip them to understand their questions and to help them choose wisely and confidently.

By Ivy Beckwith, author of Postmodern Children’s Ministy

The latest book from Beckwith, already being recommended and used in SU and CTM training days, this resource skillfully explores using story, ritual and relationship to inspire and develop in children’s ministry. Beckwith encourages a ministry in which children are being challenged and shaped by their encounters with God and the scriptures through your ministry.

An Orange leaders is any leader who connects other leaders and parents in order to build faith in the next generation.
What worked yesterday in ministry may not work today – and what works today may not work tomorrow. This book can help you to do an honest assessment of your ministry and develop strategies for moving on with change and become a skilled modifier of programs or strategies that need change.

Here at last, the ORANGE resources children and family ministry folk have been waiting for. ‘Imagine the impact when church and family collide’. This book guides you through the fusing and integration of two highly significant influences in a child’s life.
Reggie Joiner is the founder of the Think Orange group, a non profit organization seeking to train churches and ministry workers to create the best possible foundation for a child’s spiritual development. Highly recommended and used by CTM and SU children and families ministry staff.