Fresh ideas for building a Christ-centered community

Messy Church is a time when families enjoy being together, making things together, eating together and celebrating God through his word, through music and through prayer. It's different from a children's activity day because it's an event for children and their parents together. With Messy Church we are trying to be a worshipping community of all ages, centred on Christ, showing hospitality, giving people a chance to express their creativity, to sit down together to eat and have fun within a church context.

We hold monthly sessions on the 2nd Saturday of each month (no meeting in August) with the following format:

• People arrive and go straight to craft activity tables.
• Time of celebration, worship, talk, prayer
• Food for all
• Blessing

Prayer:

• God will speak into people's lives
• Volunteers and leaders
• Next session
• Right people to come
• Worship leading
• Safety for all
• Good chat and relationships built