Messy Church May 23

May 2023 Messy Church Who will help us? How do we know Jesus is with us? The session was linked to Pentecost as we thought about how we know Jesus is with us. We made crosses, reminding us that Jesus helps us, we thought about the different sorts of prayers we can say-thank you, sorry, […]

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Messy Church April 2023

April 2023 Messy Church  New Life: The Promise of Easter Another busy Messy Church in April provided us with an opportunity to celebrate the Easter story over a longer period, as we didn’t meet until 22nd April. We looked at the Easter story in a number of different ways. There were pictures of different stages […]

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March 2023 Messy Church

March 2023 Messy Church Heavenly Hope : How can we live in God’s way? We explored this through looking at pictures of our feelings hidden throughout the building, making a flower with a lolly at the centre-the idea was to think of others (the plan being to give the flower away-but it’s possible that that […]

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Messy Church February 2023

February 2023 Messy Church Are you willing? How can we make a difference? February Messy Church was based around the story of the leper healed by Jesus.  In this story, the emphasis was on what it feels like to be excluded and how we can be willing to include everyone and the effect on people […]

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Messy Church January 2023

January 2023 Messy Church Hidden Treasure: What’s worth more than anything to you? This month’s Messy Church was based on the stories of the pearl of great price. WE did lots of decorating using shiny things we decorated boxes to put things that are important to us in and decorated pictures of chests to remember […]

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Messy Church Dec 2022

December 2022 Messy Church We were there-are you? Jesus birth meant different things to different people. During this Messy Church, we thought about some of those people and what Christmas meant to them and what it means to us. There were opportunities to make head dresses for the final nativity, to practice tracking skills to […]

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Messy Church November 2022

November 2022 Messy Church : The ten bridesmaids-Are you ready? The story of the ten bridesmaids is all about being ready and we linked it to being prepared for Christmas. Through crafts and other activities, members of Messy Church explored this theme.   Small “jack-in -a-boxes were made as we thought about expecting surprises and being […]

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