News for September available shortly.
Kids Church for the Methodist Church in Tower Hamlets. Monthly on the first Saturday of every month (dates below). We meet from 10am until 12 noon. Church for kids who bring their parents, grandparents or carers with them. A church full of fun. A place where they can invite their friends to join them.
What is Messy Church?
The hall is buzzing with conversation. Around a table adults and children burst into laughter as they wrestle with metallic tubing and googly eyes and their teenage helpers despair of ever creating the promised artifact. A toddler slaps green paint on a huge sheet of card under the watchful eye of a Granny (not sure if they're related or not - it doesn't really matter). A five-year-old watches wide-eyed as an enthusiastic leader shows her how to bang in a nail. There's a delicious smell wafting out of the kitchen. The ten-year-olds, intent on their glass-painting, agree it must be jacket potatoes. The minister takes a photo of the surreal result of the junk modelling and two mums catch up on the gossip as they drink welcome cups of tea and slowly decorate gift bags while their children make something unidentifiable but very chocolatey.
The cooks should be getting the plates stacked, but one of the mums needs to talk about her problems with her foster children.
The person leading the worship time would be panicking about the story for the celebration later, but there's a huge collage of The Great Banquet to assemble before five o'clock, the powder paint has proved a formidable weapon of mess creation in the hands of a little boy, and we've barely got started on the lettering and we can't find the picture of a table that we cut out earlier......
Just another Messy Church.
Messy Church is the monthly event for children and their families and carers who might want to meet Jesus, belong to their local church and bring up their children as Christians but can't cope with traditional Sunday morning church services.
We have decided to try to do something for all ages together, partly out of a belief that we grow best as a church when we walk the journey with as many different people as possible, and partly from a desire to help families grow together in their walk of faith, not see Christianity as something you grow out of when you're eleven.
On the first Saturday of each month at Bow Road Methodist Church children are invited to bring their parents/carers to kids church to a time of creativity, worship and eating together.
Messy Church.
First Saturday of the month.
10am until noon.
Bow Road Methodist Church, 1 Merchant Street, London E3 4LY
Click here for directions to 'Messy Church'
For more information contact the Circuit Office on 020 8880 7301.
Messy Church dates
There will be no Messy Church in July or August - Watch this space for September!