Engage Your Senses

Our senses are an incredible part of how we are fearfully and wonderfully made that help us to learn about and engage with the world around us.

Babies and children first learn about the world around them through their senses – it’s partly why they put things into their mouths and like to crash their toys about to make loud noises – that playing and interacting stimulates the senses and helps them to learn and develop. We know that good sensory input is vital for healthy brain development – it’s what helps our brain to literally build and to form.

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The Wonder of Christmas

We have a rule in our house that there is to be no Christmas music before 1^st December. As a family, we love music and we LOVE Christmas and I suspect that, without that restriction in place, Carol of the Bells, Michael Bublé or Rend Collective’s Campfire Christmas album would be filling every room from September!!!

In one of my favourite songs, Andy Williams sings that ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year’ but, as we press into all that the Christmas season brings, how can we create space for a Wonder-Full time this Christmas?

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What do you want me to do for you?

I am reading through the book of Matthew at the moment and last week I came across this beautiful story in Matthew 20:29-34 that seemed to jump out of the pages at me! It is such a beautiful example of Jesus journeying well with 2 people with additional needs but it gives us some helpful and healthy challenges too that are great reminders as we begin this new school year!  [Read More]

Remembering

November is the month for remembering. The christian calendar kicks it off with All Saints day on 1st November when we remember the heroes of faith who have gone before us. The 2nd November is then All Souls day – a day similar to the Mexican festival of el Dia de los Muertos (the day of the dead) – when we remember loved ones who have passed away. [Read More]

What’s Your Eye On?

In John 5 we find the beautiful and well known story of Jesus healing the man at the pool of Bethesda. The passage tells us that the man has been sat at the edge of the water for 38 years, part of a crowd of poorly people all waiting with hope for the waters to stir. [Read More]

Intro to Wonderful Me!

Hello – my name is Lisa Campbell and I am so very excited to introduce you to Wonderful Me!!!!

Wonderful Me! is all about equipping and enabling churches to journey well with children and families in their communities through training and support in relational practice and an inclusive, trauma informed approach to children’s ministry. [Read More]