Worship For Everyone: Unlocking the Transforming Power of All-Age Worship

by Nick Drake, Becky Drake

Multi-generational worship is important for most church leaders, children’s workers and worship leaders – but how can you truly engage everyone so that all age worship can thrive in your church?

Worship for Everyone is a practical guide bursting with ideas and resources, and that offers an inspiring vision crucial for bringing longevity and life to all age worship.

Nick and Becky Drake, pioneers and experts in multi-generational ministry, provide a theology for bringing all ages together that draws on their years of experience. Alongside this they give advice and tips on running multi-generational worship sessions and dealing with the many challenges that church face is producing good all age worship.

Worship for Everyone contains all the resources pastors, children’s workers and church leaders need to run all age worship services. Service plans, talks, recommended songs, Bible readings and more are all brought together, so you can make your all age worship fun, engaging and memorable for every generation.

208 pages, Paperback

Published June 17, 2021

About the author

Nick Drake was born in 1961. He lives and works in London. His first book-length collection, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999, and was selected for the Next Generation Poets promotion in 2004. From The Word Go was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2007. His most recent projects include a stage adaptation of Philippe Petit’s To Reach the Cloud; the screenplay for the Australian film Romulus, My Father, starring Eric Bana, which won Best Film at the Australian Film Awards; Success, a play for the National Theatre's Connections project; and a trilogy of historical novels (Nefertiti, shortlisted for CWA Best Historical Crime Novel, Tutankhamun and Egypt: The Book of Chaos which Mammoth Screen are developing for TV). He is a screenwriter, and is also working the composer Tansy Davies and director Deborah Warner on an opera for ENO. In September 2010 he was invited to join Cape Farewell's trip to the Arctic to explore climate change, and from that journey arose a commission from United Visual Artists to create poems and texts for their ground-breaking installation High Arctic at the National Maritime Museum (2011). Those poems, together with others inspired by the Arctic and its voices, are gathered in his collection The Farewell Glacier (Bloodaxe Books, 2012).

Reviews

[Isaac · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really helped me consider how we can improve intergenerational times of worship at church.