Lenten Godly Play Workshop at CECE!

There will be a Godly Play workshop on Saturday February 19th at the CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CECE – education wing, 2nd floor of St John York Mills Anglican Church.
This Lent/Easter session will present more stories such as The Faces of Easter and The Mystery of Easter. The plan is to spend the day really immersed in stories.
We look forward to this exciting session with Amy Crawford, thank you Amy!
If you are interested in attending this workshop please contact the Rev. Dr. Catherine Keating at the following email address providing your name, phone number and parish and names of others in your parish interested in joining the session no later than February 9th 2011 at:
ckeating@stjohnsyorkmills.com
The cost for the Lenten session is $25.00. This will include a light lunch. A cheque may be made out to the Centre for Excellence in Christian Education, CECE, and sent to the attention of the Rev. Dr. Catherine Keating, CECE, 19 Don Ridge Drive Toronto ON M2P 1H3.

Thank you for spending your Saturday helping to increase your Godly Play resources

Arlene and Margaret part of the team from St Matthew Oriole

Our leader hard at work

Amy Crawford helps make work fun!

Godly Play Make and Take - work is play for us as well as our children!

Jan Gardner Williams from SJYM and Esther Senathirajah from St Matthew Oriole hard at work - or play . . .

Pastor Tim hard at work preparing Godly Play materials
Pastor Tim has implemented Godly Play already and is keen to continue
We look forward to hearing from him on how the sessions are progressing!

Make and Take session for Advent Stories

What a fun and successful Saturday we had on November 20th making support materials for Advent Godly Play stories.
Four parishes now have the materials required to tell Godly Play stories over the next month.
The group became closer and the camaraderie was contagious.
Thank you again Amy Crawford for your guidance and support!
Next session tis planned for Saturday Ferurary 19th to support stories for Lent - More info to come in the new year.
Wishing you a blessed Advent and a most Holy Christmas
CECE

Dare 2 Share - a resource website for Youth Ministers

We came across this website and thought it would be of interest to you.
Here is what they have to say about themselves

About Dare 2 Share

Dare 2 Share is a church assisting ministry that provides resources for youth leaders and equips teens to relationally and relentlessly reach their generation for Christ. Over 1,400 of these resources are provided completely FREE!
D2S also conducts nationwide youth evangelism training conferences. The events are structured for students in junior high and high school, ranging from 12 to 18 years old. Regardless of gender or denomination, D2S teaches from a Christian perspective. D2S is based in Denver, Colorado and has impacted the lives of more than 300,000 teens since 1991.

To find this website click the following link

Introduction to Godly Play

Here is a look at Godly Play !!!

What's happening in children's and youth ministry!!!

We are in the process of finding out what is happening in children's and youth ministry so that we at CECE can be a better support to parishes.

Please share with us any ideas or materials that you would like us to consider for the CECE.

CECE Library In Development

CECE is in the process of going through materials and resources that support ministry to children and youth. We have a plethora of items. Presently we have catalogued some of the books and you now can have access to that information!

If you would like to know what is available for loan from CECEC here is how to do it.

Log in to the library catalogue by following this link and then sign in to the library name CECE2.

As you can see we presently have about 80 entries.

You may browse the collection and decide what might be of support for you.

We welcome your input regarding purchase of future resources through the CECE blog.

Godly Play Workshop at CECE

Saturday November 20th at 9 AM - a 'Make and Take' session to support Godly Play Advent stories!

Happy New Year !!!

The Christ Centred Character Team has met during this time to discuss the next steps in the development of the Centre for Excellence in Christian Education – CECE (formerly the Anglican Resource Centre - ARC). The group did receive the Area Ministry grant, for which we applied. This seed money will help us in reaching our goal to create a centre where those who minister to our children and youth can congregate and share successes. We are grateful to God and to the Diocese for the funding provided by the grant.

We welcomed Jenny Salisbury, Youth Minister from St. Clement’s, to the CECE group. We discussed many ideas and are in the process of looking for a librarian to hire and help organize our resources and materials, catalogue the books and set up the resource centre We have already had other parishes borrow from the Godly Play materials. If you would like to know more about CECE and how you can assist in building this resource for Christian educators please contact me through the church or at ckeating@stjohnsyorkmills.com.