Mary Hawes, CGMCNovember 2012

*Hide and Seek

*Raising the questions

*The Child in the Church*The Bible and Children*Children and Holy Communion*Unfinished Business*Jesus and the Children*Children in the Way*All God’s Children?*Through the Eyes of a Child

*Hidden in Scripture

*Biblical perspectives:Marcia Bunge

*Gifts of God and sources of joy*Sinful creatures and moral agents*Developing beings who need instruction and guidance*Fully human and made in the image of God*Models of faith and sources of revelation*Orphans, neighbours and strangers in need of justice and compassion

*Child Theology Movement

*Matthew 18:1-14*The child in the midst*Children as signs of the Kingdom

*Hide and seek in theology

*Hide and seek in theology

*Bonnie Miller-McLemore* Integrating theology, psychology and feminism

*Joyce Ann Mercer*Exploring disconnects between what the Church

says and what the Church does*David Jensen*Grace and vulnerability

*Kirstin Herzog*Global perspectives

*Spiritual development

*James Fowler*John Westerhoff*David Hay & Rebecca Nye*Rebecca Nye*Brendan Hyde*David Csinos

*Seeking space to grow

*Space*Process*Imagination*Relationship*Intimacy*Trust

*Seeking new models

*Offering the Gospel to Children*Gretchen Wolff-Pritchard

*Godly Play*Jerome Berryman

*Messy Church*Lucy Moore

*Story*Ivy Beckwith

*Emerging trends

*Resourcing households of faith*It takes a village*Experience*With, by and among*Process not product*Respecting and valuing*Faith as a way of life

*The default setting

*Doing what we’ve always done*Focussing on ‘how’ rather than ‘why’*Reactive rather than proactive*Information rather than formation*Occupying or entertaining

*Hidden ways?

*Leaders who think deeply about theology, children, church and praxis*Nurture for life, action and participation*Learning from and learning with*Full inclusion

*Brian McLaren, May 2012

We are inducting our children into a form of Christianity that no longer works for increasing numbers of adults. We need to start talking about whole-life spiritual formation in a new kind of Christian life.

*Hide and Seek?

Don’t teach good news - become good news