I can't quite believe it, but today I finished working on putting together the fiftieth issue of Spill the Beans, which is hereby released into the wild. What a fabulously creative team the Spill the Beans Resource Team is to provide this great collection of resources to stimulate and challenge as we prepare worship and activities for all ages. It is a privilege to work with this wonderful group, some of whom have been there right from the very first meeting and still muster creativity and fresh outlooks and some who have just joined us recently offering new inspiration and enthusiasm. Everyone who has been a part of the team over the last 12 years has been a gift to the Church and I thank them all.

Issue 50 is the second issue in our new 'Word and World' series. This is a new two year plan of Scripture readings through which we are endeavouring to link to important events/days worldwide, nationally or locally. We have brought these into short series of services. You can download the table of readings here.

We continue to focus on how we worship intergenerationally within our church contexts. Each issue of Spill the Beans is now organised by how we might use different resources to "tell the story", "explore the story", and "live the story". You will still find a range of materials and ideas, but we challenge you to think creatively about how you use it and to think more intergenerationally.

You will find more about this approach in the Introduction section of the issue. Any feedback you want to offer will be most welcome. This is easily done on the Facebook page/group.

Sampler

If you have not used Spill the Beans before then please have a look at this sample.

If you'd like to download a full copy of Issue 50 for use in your church or personally, then click the 'Buy Now' button below. The cost is only £12 (GBP). You can make a secure payment via PayPal and then an email with secure link to the download should wing its way to you. Please note that you can only download the file using this link three times, so please make sure you save the file to your computer as soon as you have downloaded it. We recommend first downloading to a laptop or desktop computer before moving to phone/tablet.

Please follow the instructions carefully. The pdf file is approximately 5 MB so it may take a wee moment to download. Please be patient as your computer does so!

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You can also get involved in feedback and discussion on the Spill the Beans website, where we try to put up weekly PowerPoint backgrounds too. There is also a facebook page in which we share ideas and we have introduced a new Facebook group which you can link to from the facebook page and which we hope will provide a place of mutual support, ideas and encouragement as we trek together through this new adventure.

Print Copies

The office is open once more and can provide printed copies (within the United Kingdom) for an additional cost (usually around £20 + P&P depending on the size of the issue). Note that we recommend using the electronic version to reduce environmental waste. Please contact Devana Parish Church Office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Spill the Beans Resource Team, of which I am a member and editor, has been working over the last year to create a new two year plan of Scripture readings which we are calling 'Word and World'. Quite deliberately we are endeavouring to link to important events/days worldwide, nationally or locally. We have brought these into short series of services. You can download the table of readings here.

We continute to focus on how we worship intergenerationally within our church contexts. Each issue of Spill the Beans is now organised by how we might use different resources to "tell the story", "explore the story", and "live the story". You will still find a range of materials and ideas, but we challenge you to think creatively about how you use it and to think more intergenerationally.

You will find more about this approach in the Introduction section of the issue. Any feedback you want to offer will be most welcome. This is easily done on the Facebook page/group.

Sampler

Created by folks here in Scotland, this issue has lots of ideas and resources for you to inspire, adapt, use in your setting. If you have not used Spill the Beans before then please have a look at this sample.

If you'd like to download a full copy of Issue 49 for use in your church or personally, then click the 'Buy Now' button below. The cost is only £12 (GBP). You can make a secure payment via PayPal and then an email with secure link to the download should wing its way to you. Please note that you can only download the file using this link three times, so please make sure you save the file to your computer as soon as you have downloaded it. We recommend first downloading to a laptop or desktop computer before moving to phone/tablet.

Please follow the instructions carefully. The pdf file is approximately 4 MB so it may take a wee moment to download. Please be patient as your computer does so!

Buy Now

You can also get involved in feedback and discussion on the Spill the Beans website, where we try to put up weekly PowerPoint backgrounds too. There is also a facebook page in which we share ideas and we have introduced a new Facebook group which you can link to from the facebook page and which we hope will provide a place of mutual support, ideas and encouragement as we trek together through this new adventure.

Print Copies

The office is open once more and can provide printed copies (within the United Kingdom) for an additional cost (usually around £20 + P&P depending on the size of the issue). Note that we recommend using the electronic version to reduce environmental waste. Please contact Devana Parish Church Office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

One of the groups I am involved in is the Spill the Beans Resource Team, for which I am the editor of the publications we produce. Before going away on holiday I have finally got around to compiling a fourth pack of resources for worship leaders and age group leaders. This is a pack of our 2019-2022 issues that took us on a second cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL).

This joins a pack from our first cycle of the RCL, a pack from our four year foray with the Narrative Lectionary (NL) and our own user-inspired "The Road Less Travelled" lectionary that we used in 2018-19. This past year we have been using The Women's Lectionary (the last issue of which is now available), and from Advent we will be moving into another home-grown Word and World Lectionary that the team has created.

If you are interested in our previous packs, they are all readily available and you can find out more from the Spill the Beans website.

Note that each of these packs is large (some are over 300 MB) so be patient when downloading them as they will take some time, depending on the speed of your internet connection.

Overspill Packs

Revised Common Lectionary Pack 1

The first three years of Spill the Beans (Issues 1-12)

£50

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Narrative Lectionary

A four year cycle of the Narrative Lectionary (Issues 13-27)

£60

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The Road Less Travelled Lectionary

Our own user-inspired lectionary of stories from the Scriptures we seldom read in church (Issues 28-32)

£25

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Revised Common Lectionary Pack 2

Our second tour through the three year cycle of the RCL (Issues 33-44)

£50

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The Spill the Beans Resource Team completes its alternative journey for 2022/23 using a lectionary prepared by Ashley M Wilcox titled "The Women's Lectionary" . This new lectionary seeks to provide something of a rebalance to the usually androcentric approach we have to the Bible by deliberately focusing on bible passages about women and female imagery of God.

The team is also deliberately trying to focus more on how we worship intergenerationally within our church contexts. That has shifted our thinking somewhat so that instead of defining materials by age groups rather we are organising by how we might use different resources to "tell the story", "explore the story", and "live the story". Youi will still find a range of materials and ideas, but we challenge you to think creatively about how you use it and to think more intergenerationally.

You will find more about this approach in the Introduction section of the issue. Any feedback you want to offer will be most welcome. This is easily done on the Facebook page/group.

Sampler

Created by folks here in Scotland, this issue has lots of ideas and resources for you to inspire, adapt, use in your setting. If you have not used Spill the Beans before then please have a look at this sample.

In this copy we also have details of a new two year lectionary that the Spill the Beans Resource Team have devised for 2023-2025 that we are calling "Word and World" as we try proactively to engage with events taking place in our own nation and worldwide during the course of those two years. A full draft table of readings is within the issue and will shortly be made available on the website.

We have also included some resources to facilitate churches going through transition whether that is closure of buildings, unions, linkages, groupings and so on.

If you'd like to download a full copy of Issue 48 for use in your church or personally, then click the 'Buy Now' button below. The cost is only £12 (GBP). You can make a secure payment via PayPal and then an email with secure link to the download should wing its way to you. Please note that you can only download the file using this link three times, so please make sure you save the file to your computer as soon as you have downloaded it. We recommend first downloading to a laptop or desktop computer before moving to phone/tablet.

Please follow the instructions carefully. The pdf file is approximately 12 MB so it may take a wee moment to download. Please be patient as your computer does so!

Buy Now

You can also get involved in feedback and discussion on the Spill the Beans website, where we try to put up weekly PowerPoint backgrounds too. There is also a facebook page in which we share ideas and we have introduced a new Facebook group which you can link to from the facebook page and which we hope will provide a place of mutual support, ideas and encouragement as we trek together through this new adventure.

Print Copies

The office is open once more and can provide printed copies (within the United Kingdom) for an additional cost (usually around £20 + P&P depending on the size of the issue). Note that we recommend using the electronic version to reduce environmental waste. Please contact Devana Parish Church Office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..