SU Victoria

From this fantastic All Age series, a new title exploring how to inspire the whole church to pray together with innovative and inspirational ideas.

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.

Written for youth to read, Lisa Cox takes a piercing look at behind the scenes in the Media Industry. She shows the reader how to critically and independently evaluate the images and messages being pumped out by what we read, see, and hear in popular culture and the media. Lisa also provides advice on keeping a healthy body image while navigating and living within current culture.
A brilliant book for youth, youth ministers, parents and chaplains.

A brilliant resource for youth leaders: 100 stories and discussion starters, every one of them pertinent to youth and designed to get them stimulated, passionate and talking! A real rich resource to use with groups of people who are at a vulnerable age but also at the age when most have great difficulty articulating their fears and feelings.

The life we are promised in Jesus is one of spiritual maturity and increasing holiness…and yet on a daily basis Christians make decisions that are destructive – not only to themselves but those around them and the world. How come?
The highly acclaimed Dallas Willard looks at how the spirit of our age has blinded Christians to the truth of their responsibilities in this world. Praised by Alistair McGrath and Richard J Foster, in this book Willard presents a radical challenge to transform the core of your being – your heart – to enable you to truly follow Christ in every dimension of life.

Discover the liberating truth expressed by St Francis centuries ago:
The world is my cloister, my body is my cell and my soul is the hermit within.
A wonderful guide into the art of cultivating solitude, silence and sacred stillness on the very spot we are standing.
While remaining very much in the world, we can experience and express the visionary love, peace, gratitude and stillness that is often thought to be most achievable by leaving the world.

Acclaimed writer Kathleen Norris explores the almost forgotten but very contemporary concept of Acedia – the phenomenon of losing the ability to care. Related to depression, acedia is in fact experienced by many and often understood as a ’spiritual malaise’ by Christians. This book brilliantly explores this condition, and the conditions and culture that gives rise to it and the damage it does both to the individual and society as a whole.
An important book for anyone suffering from depression, a spiritual slough: or those who just know they are somehow ‘not right’ in their soul.

The latest resource from Beth Barnett: Party On has been a huge success as a ministry and church program for children and youth.
By popular demand Beth had adapted it and Party On Together is a fantastic MULTI-AGE worship resource.
Dr Keith Dyer has contributed Bible Studies to accompany the training sessions and worship plans, which allow for the creation of services that are interactive, vibrant and meaningful for all in the community. Great value and a most valuable local resource.

Dudley J Deleffs calls on his experience in counseling to offer
means and strategies to deal with emotional pain and wounds to heart and soul. Knowing that the busyness of life can create a block to finding a space in which to reconnect with God when we are distanced or hurting, Deleff offers ideas and references for breaking out of pain and returning to wholeness in God.

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.