Children and young people are welcomed at all of our services! Most weeks there is some form of Junior Church, but once a month there are ‘All Age Worship’ services and the children are expected to stay with their parents or carers for the whole service. On Junior Church Sundays (see programme) the children and young people are in church for the first part of the service and then leave with the Junior Church leaders around 11am. Junior Church covers a mixed age group from 5 years upwards. The sessions are varied and often include crafts, games and activities to support bible teaching. We use the United Reformed Church’s “Faith Adventures for Children Together and Youth Resource” https://urc.org.uk/your-faith/children-young-people/faith-adventures-for-children-together/ to plan a session that engages the mixed ages and abilities, sometimes with break out groups. We like to communicate with parents via our WhatsApp group so that we know which children are hoping to come so that we can plan accordingly.
The group is run by leaders Sue Croft and Sue Griffiths, with helpers as required. We believe that in order to lead the children and young people to a relationship with Jesus, it is important that we build a relationship with them through our consistent leadership. On occasions children and young people are invited to contribute to a worship service.
In addition to the Junior Church Group we can offer the services of a creche facility with a volunteer helper.
Leaders and helpers are DBS verified and trained in Safeguarding procedures.
Programme
| Date | Type of Service | Junior Church | 7 Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug – 11 | Joint | Junior Church | |
| 18 | Joint | Junior Church | |
| 25 | Joint | ||
| Sept – 1 | Gathering | Sunday Club | |
| 8 | Joint | Junior Church | Youth Alpha |
| Fri – 13 | Messy Church | ||
| 15 | Gathering | Junior Church | |
| 22 | Joint – Harvest | ||
| 29 | Gathering | Sunday Club | Youth Alpha |
| Oct – 6 | Joint | Junior Church | Youth Alpha |
| Fri – 11 | Messy Church | ||
| 13 | Gathering | Junior Church | Youth Alpha |
| 20 | Joint | ||
| 27 | Gathering | Sunday Club | Youth Alpha |
| Nov – 3 | Joint | Junior Church | Youth Alpha |
| Fri – 8 | Messy Church | ||
| 10 | Joint | Youth Alpha | |
| 17 | Gathering | ||
| Dec – 1 | Gathering | Sunday Club | |
| 8 | Joint | Junior Church | Youth Alpha |
| Fri – 13 | Messy Church | ||
| 15 | Joint | Junior Church | Youth Alpha |
| 22 | Joint – Christingle Service | ||
| 29 | Joint |