Colm Fitzpatrick
WMOF 2018: Programme
For all of the children attending WMOF, there will be an opportunity for them to learn about their Faith through a multitude of sensory and engaging activities in the Children’s Global Village.
It will include songs, arts and crafts, dance, games and lots of fun packed faith activities, shows and workshops to entertain the children while helping them reflect on the importance of family. This will also be an opportunity for interacting with children of all ages from around the world.
“It will give children the option to just meet and greet with other children from their own ages from around the world and maybe reflect on the importance of not just their immediate family but our family of families so all of the different workshops are focused on looking back on the theme from each day in the Children’s Global Village which is around the phrases that Pope Francis uses all the time for families which are ‘Please, thank you, and I’m sorry’,” explains Julieann Moran, coordinator of the Children’s Global Village.
“I think it’s just going to be a multitude of sensory engaging activities whether it’s through music whether it’s through touch or whether it’s through engaging with each other through prayer. There’s just going to be a multitude of different ways to engage with each other in the space. We’re really excited about it.”
The Children’s Global Village will be held in a secure area of the RDS Simmonscourt campus.
Children’s Global Village opening hours and programme
Wednesday, August 22
MORNING PROGRAMME
Please note: The morning programme is for children aged 4-12 only to participate in while parents/guardians take part in morning sessions or other activities. This is a fully supervised programme from 9.30am to 12.30pm. There is a maximum capacity of 750 participants in the Children’s Global Village. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
9 am Registration
9.30 am Open and Welcome
9.45 am Kisi Kids Drama – Ruth and Boaz – Worship and Action Songs
10.15 am Workshop 1 in Tents:
-Arts & Crafts
-Drama & Music
-Caring & Sharing
-Godly Play®
-Prayer Tent
11 am Main Tent: Kisi Kids – God’s Singing Children
11.10 am Catechesis: Families of Faith; and the importance of saying ‘Please’.
Bishop Donal McKeown, Bishop of Derry, Ireland
11.20 am Video Testimony – Naas Parish Altar Servers
11.30 am Workshop 2 in Tents:
-Arts & Crafts
-Drama & Music
-Caring & Sharing
-Godly Play®
-Prayer Tent
12.15 pm Main Tent: Puppet Theatre with Kisi Kids
12.30 pm Programme Close and children are collected.
EVENING PROGRAMME
6.30 – 8 pm Evening Music & Drama Performance: Ruth the Family Musical Kisi Kids – God’s Singing Children
Thursday, August 23
MORNING PROGRAMME
9 am Registration
9.30 am Open and Welcome
9.45 am Kisi Kids Drama – Joseph and his Brothers – Worship and Action Songs
10.15 am Workshop 1 in Tents:
-Arts & Crafts
-Drama & Music
-Caring & Sharing
-Godly Play®
-Prayer Tent
11 am Main Tent: Kisi Kids – God’s Singing Children
11.10 am Catechesis: God Loves Me; and the importance of saying ‘Sorry’
Fr Patrick Cahill, Waterford, Ireland
11.20 am Video Testimony – Mullingar Cathedral Choristers
11:30 am Workshop 2 in Tents:
Arts & Crafts
Drama & Music
Caring & Sharing
Godly Play®
Prayer Tent
12.15 pm Main Tent: Amoris Animation
12.30 pm Programme Close and children are collected.
EVENING PROGRAMME
Please note: Children may not be left unaccompanied in this space during the evening drama programme. Parents/guardians must remain in attendance.
6.30 – 8 pm Evening Music & Drama Performance
A Little Bit of Francis – the Life of Pope Francis Holy Family Parish, Ballsgrove, Drogheda
Friday, August 24
MORNING PROGRAMME
9 am Registration
9.30 am Open and Welcome
9.45 am Kisi Kids Drama – St Paul and his Adventures – Worship and Action Songs
10.15 am Workshop 1 in Tents:
-Arts & Crafts
-Drama & Music
-Caring & Sharing
-Godly Play®
-Prayer Tent
11 am Main Tent: Kisi Kids – God’s Singing Children
11.10 am Catechesis: Hope and Happiness; the fruits of saying ‘Thank you’.
Bishop Fintan Monahan, Bishop of Killaloe, Ireland
11.20 am Video Testimony – Porterstown Family Mass Group – Songs with Lisdeen Children’s Folk Group, Kilkee
11:30 am Workshop 2 in Tents:
-Arts & Crafts
-Drama & Music
-Caring & Sharing
-Godly Play®
-Prayer Tent
12.15 pm Main Tent: Puppet Theatre with Kisi Kids
12.30 pm Programme Close and children are collected.
The Children’s Global Village will be held in a secure area of the RDS Simmonscourt campus. We are committed to keeping children in our care in very safe hands.
Therefore, only pre-approved adult volunteers, speakers, entertainers, workshop leaders and other necessary leaders will have entry to the WMOF Children Global Village for the duration of the morning children’s Programmes.
However, all ages are welcome to visit the Children’s Global Village for the evening drama programme. Under 18s must not be left unaccompanied in the Children’s Global Village during the evening drama programme: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them” (Mt 19:14).
In the same way that Jesus Christ commanded the adults to allow the children to approach him, we encourage all parents with children attending the WMOF’s to encourage your children to attend the daily children’s programme prepared for them in the Children’s Global Village. The overall programme and daily catechesis are based upon the themes of ‘Please, Thank you and Sorry’ as outlined by Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia. “Three words need to be used. I want to repeat this! Three words: ‘please’, ‘thank you’, ‘sorry’. Three essential words!”
The workshops and catechesis will be child-centred, pointing them towards the sense of wonder and awe that children intuitively have in relation to the world around them and to their relationship with Jesus Christ and their own families.
It will also tap into the innate goodness that is inherent within all children, and the ease with which they form meaningful relationships with others, particularly children from other parts of the world who will also be in attendance in the Children’s Global Village.