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Green living for God's Creation! If everything belongs to God the Creator then how does that affect and change the way we live our lives? Wow! Creation is a creative activity book that explores six aspects of Creation Care based on verses from the Bible. Activities are based around the topics of celebrating God's amazing creation, respecting and caring for animals and plants, ideas for resting the land and trusting in God's provision, thinking about others around the world and the impact of our actions on the environment. Each story is explored through offering innovative activities including engaging prayer, craft and create, acting out scenarios, time for reflection, ideas for discussion and creative praise. PRAY - opportunities to pray in a creative way by yourself or with others. PAUSE - take some time out to reflect on an element of the story and how it fits with our lives now. PLAY - Ideas to get you on your feet and having a bit of fun around the story. CREATE - Craft and make creations that help to explore themes and parts of the story. CELEBRATE - Celebrate and find joy in the story and ideas in how to rejoice in these together. COMMUNICATE - A chance to chat and connect with each other using the parts of the story as conversation starters. A well designed and creative activity book to inspire children, families, and communities to connect creatively with God and to connect with one another. The WOW! series are creative, interactive and practical books that offer innovative resources to explore stories and themes found in the Bible. They are designed to help you explore your faith with your family or as a group by delving imaginatively into stories and offer reflection time for both adults and children. Encourage connection and conversation between adults and children/youth around the stories and characters, encouraging empathy for the children and a new way of thinking about these well-known stories for adults. Ideal to use at home or as a resource for church schools and churches providing a multitude of activities and conversation starters for Sunday schools, inter-generational worship, religious education and collective worship in schools. Written by Martha Shrimpton founder of Nimbus Collective that aims to help all ages to connect in a creative way as an individual, as a family and as a community and also with God.

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"""'Wow! Creation' is a lovely book with accessible and creative activities that will draw children closer to God and his wonderful creation. (Grand)parents will have fun joining in too!""--Petra Crofton, biologist and author of 'Science Geek Christy and her eco-logbook' and 'Explore Creat ""I love this! Full of fabulous and fun things for kids to do to get creative with our Creator God.""--Dr Ruth Valerio, Global Advocacy and Influencing Director at Tearfund, environmentalist, theologian ""This book has the WOW! factor for me - a fun, wonderful book that's a joy to use and a help to the world. Brilliant!""--Paul Kerensa, award-winning writer and stand-up comedian and author of 'Planet Protectors'"

""'Wow! Creation' is a lovely book with accessible and creative activities that will draw children closer to God and his wonderful creation. (Grand)parents will have fun joining in too!""--Petra Crofton, biologist and author of 'Science Geek Christy and her eco-logbook' and 'Explore Creat ""I love this! Full of fabulous and fun things for kids to do to get creative with our Creator God.""--Dr Ruth Valerio, Global Advocacy and Influencing Director at Tearfund, environmentalist, theologian ""This book has the WOW! factor for me - a fun, wonderful book that's a joy to use and a help to the world. Brilliant!""--Paul Kerensa, award-winning writer and stand-up comedian and author of 'Planet Protectors'

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Martha Shrimpton (Author) Martha Shrimpton is an actor-musician and presenter who has worked within the arts for a number of years. She is the director of Nimbus Collective, which encourages individuals and churches to connect with God in creative ways by producing resources, hosting events and leading training days. She is also the author of Wow! Jesus and Wow! Christmas on our children's list, which are part of the 'Wow!' series, helping children creatively explore stories in the Bible. Sarah Nolloth (Illustrator) Sarah Nolloth is an illustrator and designer originally from Aberdeen but now based in Brighton, UK. She studied Performance and Visual Art at the University of Brighton and afterwards channelled her skills into illustration, graphic design and craft. She works mainly in the wellness and community space and creates resources about the music industry that are sent into prisons. She also creates dynamic graphics for a charity that works with the homeless community.

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