Shona leads our first all age service of 2025, continuing our theme from last year looking at Old Testament heroines. This week it is the turn of Deborah, the only female leader of Israel in the time of the Judges. Facing attacks from the surrounding nations Deborah leads the people through a time of hardship and yet never gives up on trusting God.
Mike leads our sung worship this week.
Our All Age Service for November continues our theme of looking at Old Testament Heroines. This month Shona focusses on Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel. Hannah was considered barren and unable to have children, yet she never gave up praying to God for a child. How can we be persistent in prayer?
We also pause with the rest of the nation to commemorate Remembrance Sunday.
Lynne and Dave lead our sung worship this week.
As it is the first Sunday of the month we hold our regular All Age Service for September. We continue a mini-series looking at the heroines of the Old Testament, those women whose impact resonates down the ages in their service to God. This month Shona looks at Rahab, a Canaanite who God not only saved but wove into the family line of the Messiah. We see how her act of faith save her family and ultimately all who put their faith in Jesus.
Shona leads June’s All Age Service, carrying on our theme of More & More and this month thinking about more and more faith. What different things can we do to help us grow in our faith in God? Susan, James and Chris all give examples from their lives of times when their faith has grown. We also have an introduction to the mission of the month, GenR8, from Lynn Hawkins.
Pete and Nick lead our sung worship with assistance from Ricky.
God’s love is big. Really big. Really, really, really big. It’s not anything we could possibly measure. Shona leads our all age service for March, looking at the “cycle of God’s love”:
1) God loves us
2) We have to share that love with others
3) Leads to praise and worship
Pete leads our sung worship this week.
As we enter Advent for another year, Shona kicks us off by leading us in our all-age service for December. In the service we look at three things we can do to prepare ourselves for Christmas: we can 1) Wait in, 2) hope and 3) praise.
Chris leads us in our prayers this week whilst Mike and Ricky lead our sung worship.
Shona leads our all-age service for August looking at the subject of prayer. Who, how, when and where do we pray? Chris also shares a reflection based around the Lord’s prayer whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
Shona leads our all-age service for June, looking at the story of Zacchaeus. How did one encounter with Jesus turn a selfish, self-serving, bullying and greedy tax collector’s life around so that he eventually gave half of his money to the poor?
Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.
Shona leads our All-Age Service for this month, and looks at the amazing and extravagant grace and mercy of God. Through mercy and grace God saves us from what we do deserve and lavishes us with gifts that we absolutely do not!
There is also a time of sharing at the end of the service while Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
For December’s All-Age service we continue with our theme of looking at how the four different gospel writers introduce Jesus. This week Shona looks at Mark, the tabloid journalist. There’s no messing around with Mark, he skips over Jesus’ birth entirely and jumps straight to John the Baptist and Jesus’ own baptism. John speaks about Jesus using the prophecies of Isaiah, written hundreds of years before Jesus’ birth. What signposts do we see in our lives?
Nick leads our sung worship.