All Are Welcome: 2025 Children’s and Youth Work Theme

Resources designed to support all churches, regardless of whether they have children and young people in their midst, this resource considers how all are welcome in God’s kingdom.

• How do we ensure that people don’t simply fit in, but truly know that they belong and are valued, just as they are, both within our church communities and within God’s family?
• Who are the people on the margins whom we might wish to assure of a true and sincere welcome?
• How might we take the message of welcome into our wider local community?

This resource contains opportunity to consider together as a congregation the welcome you might extend. We can’t do everything at once – at least not overnight – so why not choose one thing to work on and aim to do that well?

You’ll find a wide variety of ways to involve everyone, whatever their age or stage, across the year, and you will discover a wealth of material to enjoy with children, young people, young adults and in intergenerational contexts.

The resource headings for sections are only guides – please don’t limit yourself to those that most obviously fit your context as you will find great ideas you can adapt in other places.

If you don’t have any children of young people connected with your church, please:

• Enjoy the colouring pages and use some of the prayers, Bible studies and other materials with your adult groups
• Pray for those churches nearest to you which do, and the children and young people in your local community
• Offer these resources to your nearest uniformed group or school