Children & Family Work

Church life is really starting to take off once again and it’s great seeing the smiles on the faces of past and new people of our church community. Well, all the existing groups I’m involved with are up and running well, we are seeing good growth in number and knowledge in Sunday Club and with that in mind we are reintroducing the breakfast church, which was going to start before lockdown in church, more to follow on this soon.

Messy Church had a good number of new faces join us to learn about Daniel’s faithfulness and lions! We are still going into Fulwood Barracks to take ‘Messy Church’ on tour, but I am looking at changing the format to meet the time and needs of the group.

The older youth of the church took part in an Escape Room during the church service and really enjoyed it and they are now looking at how we move the group forward.

One of my main focuses now is the schools work I’m involved with, I am taking assemblies once a month at Banks Methodist Primary School for the circuit. We’ve also taken the opportunity of going into Ribbleton Avenue to use their outdoor space, we are delivering a ‘Walk-through Easter’ over 5 weeks with Year 3 students, so far, we’ve looked at the 40 days in the wilderness – we painted Rocks. Then Palm Sunday we’re we used the painted rocks to make a Labyrinth (showing a journey)

Jane is taking the next session about The Last Supper, then the final two, to look at Jesus in the garden and his death on the cross.

Darren Arnold

Youth, Children’s & Family Worker