Growing Together 
Activities to use for worship with all ages and deist faiths

WORSHIP FOR ALL AGES

Get a circle of people (about 10). Give them 3 balls of wool, and ask them to throw the balls across the space between them, whilst holding on to the thread. Build up a web of wool. Eventually you will be able to balance an inflatable globe on the top of the web.

It is a picture of the web of creation, which is necessary to support life on the planet.

Allow 2 or 3 people to let go of their threads whilst the globe is resting on the web. Eventually, perhaps quickly, the web will be so broken as to not bear the weight of the globe. Whilst the web of creation may be able to sustain a few breaks, eventually there will come a time when it is no longer able to sustain the abundant life that we know.

We all need to ensure that our lifestyles are in harmony with the web of life, and ensure our connectedness with (rather than domination over) the creation.

This could easily be adapted for use with an interfaith or a secular group by referring to the ‘web of life’ rather than the ‘web of creation’.

Meditate

(You may like to do this in a garden if possible.) Recall a favourite beauty spot and your experience of nature there. Think of three things you particularly enjoy about it. Revel in what God has made. Perhaps this could lead into praise and prayer.   

This could easily be adapted for use with an interfaith or a secular group by referring to the ‘web of life’ rather than the ‘web of creation’ or you could use a different meditation exercise to focus on a particular issue.