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Come, Come to the Table: A Simple Liturgy for Any Communion Sunday

Based on my new picture book, Gathered at the Table: Celebrating Communion. here is a responsive liturgy, where the congregation, including children, are Invited to repeat the simple but powerful phrase: Come, Come to the table.

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Celebrating the Release of Gathered at the Table: Celebrating Communion With a Four-Book Giveaway PLUS Six Creative Ways to Use the Book!

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It’s here! It’s here! Today is release day for Gathered at the Table: Celebrating Communion.

A companion title to Baptized in the Water, this premium picture book celebrates all the varying ways to receive communion while focusing on the one important thing: when we come to the table, we all remember Jesus.

Written in a combination of prose and poetry, there are so many creative ways to use this book! Read on to find out more, to look at the gorgeous illustrations by Anna Kazimi, and, of course, to enter the giveaway!

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Ten Years, Forty Titles, Five Things I’ve Learned

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Ten years ago this month, my first book, Love Letters from God, was published. It was an absolute dream come true, an utter miracle, an unbelievable achievement that I still thank God for every day.

I thought I’d arrived. I was, at long last, after a six-year journey, a children’s author. I remember looking at my name on the gorgeous cover, turning each page, rereading my words and marveling that they were, unbelievably, in print.

Little did I know that the book I held would become a series of four, that I would go on to write many more picture books and board books with Zonderkidz…

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Celebrating the Release of Little Mole Gives Thanks with a Four-Book Giveaway!

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It’s here! It’s here! Today is release day for my newest picture book, Little Mole Gives Thanks!

In the fourth exciting installment in the Little Mole series, everyone’s favorite woodland friend is planning a fancy forest feast and he’s invited three very important guests, including my personal favorite… Principal Porcupine! (I mean… who couldn’t love a porcupine in pearls, and a KILT!)

But when each of these guests delivers the news that they won’t be able to attend, Little Mole doesn’t know what to do. Who will fill his table? Disappointment turns into gratitude as his community shows Little Mole what true friendship looks like, just in time for the big feast he and Mama worked so hard to prepare.

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An Interview with Author Jennifer Grant, PLUS a Giveaway of her Book, Sing, Wrestle, Spin!

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If you’ve never met author, editor and all-round-wonderful-human-being, Jennifer Grant, then here’s your chance. I sometimes have to pinch myself that I’m her friend in real life! (It’s true… we even eat together!)

Jennifer writes for all ages, but I’m most interested in her gentle children’s titles, including the best-selling Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too and her upcoming new release, What If I Can’t Explain God? (You MUST preorder that one!)

Last year she released a gem of a book called Sing, Wrestle, Spin: Prayers for Active Kids a lovely title that invites children aged 6-10 to explore imaginative ways to pray using all their senses. As someone who was raised hearing the familiar words: hands together and eyes closed, I was immediately drawn to this book and its potential for children’s ministry.

In celebration of this lovely book, I sat down with Jennifer to ask her a few questions about what drives her as a writer and in particular, what inspired her to write Sing, Wrestle, Spin. She even agreed to give two copies of this lovely book away to my lucky readers! Read on to discover more about her and be sure to enter the giveaway at the end…

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Celebrating the Release of Wherever You Are With a Four-Book Giveaway!

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It’s here! It’s here! Today is release day for my newest picture book, Wherever You Are.

Eight years ago, on an ordinary Thursday afternoon, when my first-born grandson was just three years old and I had the enormous privilege of taking care of him, it was snowing.

He stood by the window in our front room, and as he watched the snow fall silently outside, he was so very still that I took a photo. After a moment, he turned to me and asked, in his three-year-old voice, Where’s God?

I did not know it then, but that ordinary moment on that ordinary day would become a picture book exploring the simple yet powerful premise that wherever you are, God is there.

Neither did I imagine that illustrator, Sian James, would use the photograph I took that long-ago day as the basis for one of the first illustrations, or that I would later appear in one of the pages. To see my grandson in the book, to find out why and where I’m in it, and of course, to enter the whopping FOUR-BOOK giveaway, read on… Continue reading →

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTMAS CHILD: Five Fun Facts with Author Laura Sassi about her Newest Board Book. PLUS A GIVEAWAY!

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If you haven’t come across Laura Sassi’s adorable new Christmas board book, you’re missing out. I mean, just look at the sweet cover!

In her impeccable rhyming style, Laura takes us on a counting journey from one stable to ten tiny toes, and the result is a joyous, fun, interactive way to celebrate the season with little ones.

I’m delighted to welcome Laura to my blog today, not only as she shares five fun facts about Happy Birthday Christmas Child, but also to host a giveaway of her new book, kindly sponsored by Paraclete Press. So, without further ado, here’s Laura (and do be sure to enter the giveaway at the end of the post!)

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