What Does It Mean to Be Present?

What Does It Mean to Be Present?

by | March 14, 2018 | Children's Religious Education, Home and Family, Lesson Plans Home RE, Lessons Small Meetings RE

This book exploring practical ways to be present could be used as part of a lesson on mindfulness and how we prepare for worship. The illustrations are lovely. Melinda Wenner Bradley has created the attached children’s religious education lesson plan,...
Rise Up Singing Songbook

Rise Up Singing Songbook

by | March 16, 2018 | Adult Religious Education, Children's Religious Education, Home and Family, Small Meetings, Young Adult Friends, Youth Education

A beloved group singing songbook containing chords, lyrics and sources to 1,200 songs from a wide variety of genres from Beatles to Broadway, from Bob Dylan to traditional ballads. Rise Up Singing does NOT include notation, meaning that users must either know the...
Rise Again Songbook

Rise Again Songbook

by | March 16, 2018 | Adult Religious Education, Children's Religious Education, Home and Family, Small Meetings, Young Adult Friends, Youth Education

After many years of planning and three years of full-time work by many hands, the sequel to Rise Up Singing was published in 2015. The format of Rise Again is the same as in Rise Up Singing but the songs are all different. Rise Again expands possiblities to bring...
The Power of Goodness

The Power of Goodness

by | June 24, 2018 | Children's Religious Education, Youth Education

TThe Power of Goodness: Art and Stories for a Culture of Peace is a short story book with children’s art from Chechnya, Russia and around the world illustrating narratives of nonviolence, healing and reconciliation. Together, the words and images capture the...
Quaker Children and the Bolivian Water Crisis

Quaker Children and the Bolivian Water Crisis

by | August 18, 2018 | Children's Religious Education, Projects Children's RE

In 2016, when global warming left the entire city of La Paz without drinking water for weeks, the Friends International Bilingual Center (FIBC) seized the teachable moment to educate children about the crisis and what they could do to help. Through QREC, Friends in...