St Martin’s Funky Church

This is held in the vestry of St. Martin’s at the same time as the 10.30am morning Mass. The children have fun in there, with all modern equipment, DVD and Power Point facilities.

They then join the rest of the congregation during the Communion Hymn to receive a blessing at the altar. Before the end of the service any work they have done can be shown to the congregation during the announcements before the service concludes.

St Catherine’s Junior Church

Junior Church is the same as in St. Martin’s except that they go out to the Church Hall for lessons based on the readings of the day with games and colouring.

They join the rest of the congregation as in St. Martin’s to take communion or a blessing, and afterwards they tell us what they have done. They finish with a prayer.

St Andrew’s Sunday School

At 11am, as the Sunday Mass begins, St. Andrew's Sunday School meets in a room dedicated for the use of the children. They have stories, a discussion, draw pictures about their topic and write special prayers as appropriate.

During the communion hymn the children join the congregation and all those baptised receive communion. Before the 'Sending Out', the children show and talk about what they have been doing.

Messy Church

Messy Church is held on the Second Saturday of the month, from 2pm to 4pm in St Catherine’s Hall. This is a huge success – numbers increasing all the time. All children are welcome........ but please bring an adult

There are lots of Activities, Worship (just a bit), plus Refreshments. Each session is themed, as follows......

• October 8th ....Abraham and Sarah
• November 12th ...Joseph
• December 10th ....Messy Christmas.

Other Matters

Baptised children who have been received as Communicants are welcome to make Holy Communion at any Eucharist service at any of our churches. Please see one of the clergy team if you wish your child to be received.

CONFIRMATION: Bishop David will be coming to St. Martin’s on 9th October for Confirmation. Confirmation classes will be starting shortly and forms are available from the clergy

DRAMA WORKSHOP Father Robert and Rev Sarah ran a Drama Workshop for young people on Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th August, concluding with a performance that evening. This was a great success, and will be repeated on 21st and 22nd December – please come along and have fun!