Gaines Youth Weekend Photos

This year’s youth weekend was a real hoot down at the Gaines Centre in Worcester. Activities included outside team games, crafts, water fights and more. We also had a series of meetings together, looking at ‘what it means to be, and how to live as, a child of the King’ in large meetings and smaller group sessions. Look at our pictures below, click to enlarge and and please leave comments!

Super Saturday

Super Saturday is a monthly event that is led by volunteers of all ages who are CRB checked. This event is for children aged 4-10 where  they will have an opportunity to make new friends whilst experiencing craft, puppets, bible teaching and stories,sports and games all combining to provide a fun and action packed monthly event.

Each session costs just £1 per child

The dates for Super Saturday’s are:

10th March
12th May
9th June
14th July

The Club runs from 10 – 12 noon. For kids that attend, a registration form needs to filled in, signed by a parent or guardian, and handed in to The Coton Centre. To speak to someone about the Clubs, please contact:

Gary Coleman on (01827) 60789, phone 07972451518 or email garyc@cotongreenchurch.com

Please take a minute to look at our video:

 

Messy Church

What is Messy Church?

Messy Church is NOT just another craft and activities club just for children! Messy Church is for the whole family and community– young & old alike, adults, children, teenagers, carers, grandparents, come as friends, families or partners, or come on your own, all are welcome.

If you think that church can be boring and irrelevant, then think again.

Messy Church is church with a difference. The emphasis of Messy Church is about learning about God in a fun and creative way, and about families enjoying quality time together. It is a church for families who find it hard to go to church on a Sunday, usually happens once every 4-6 weeks on a Saturday afternoon between 3-5pm.

Each month there are activities based around a particular theme, where people of all ages are encouraged to come and be involved, or just sit and relax with a cup of tea or coffee chatting to our team and making new friends following an hour or so of crafts and other activities then there is the celebration. Then there is food! There is a cheap and cheerful meal for everyone to enjoy time together before leaving. It doesn’t matter if you have been to church before or not, everyone is welcome at Messy Church.

 

 

• It is an all-age church where everyone will be valued equally.
• It provides an informal, relaxed environment for all-ages to explore and experience faith and worship through crafts, food and celebration.
• It describes each and every one of us as no one is perfect and each of us lead messy lives for many reasons.
• It invites us to come together, making things together, eating together and celebrating God together. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Dates for Messy Church are:

17th March
26th May
23rd June

www.messychurch.org.uk

Multiply

PRACTICAL, AFFORDABLE TRAINING

Multiply is a ten month training programme run by Coton Green Church in
association with Springdale College aimed towards anyone involved in Church
life. Our course for 2011/2012 is currently running.
If you would be interested in applying for further courses please fill in the form below.

Here’s a link to the college that created the course.

Gill Johnson

When I was seven, a friend in my class invited me to Sunday School. I quickly got involved, enjoying all that they did, taking my three younger sisters along with me.

Four years later the young people started a Friday night youth event at church called “Christian Endeavour”. It was primarily to encourage discipleship in us, and it did. Among other things I learnt how to give a testimony, open and close the meeting in prayer and give a little talk based on some Scripture. After about a year, one of the leaders spoke about ‘giving your heart and life to Jesus’.

All my life I was taught to be a “good girl” and do the right thing. Giving my heart and life to Him was the right thing to do…..but it was also a choice I wanted to make. So that night  kneeling beside my bed and praying a prayer of repentance I asked Jesus in to my heart. I started to pray regularly and to read the Bible. Reading scripture was a discipline that I found hard, which is odd because I devoured fiction books. It’s only in recent years that I have grown to truly love His Word, and I believe it’s changing me.

As a teenager I met and fell in love with a Christian; when I had finished University we got married. Twenty years and three children later, he left me for another woman. I was devastated. At that point all of our children were still at home; we cried and hugged each other a lot. Friends and family were an immense help too, especially in those early days.

At the school where I worked, my fellow teachers, teaching assistants, secretary, cooks . . . all of them were also a great help. They were, (and still are!), a wonderful group of people – more than just work colleagues. They are committed to their work and want to help the children find fulfilment in every area of their lives and because of this they are great encouragers. As teachers we try to move the children forward and give them self confidence. My colleagues do this with the adults around them too, so it was a good place to be when I felt so fragile inside. Where I work is a safe place too; many of us have laughed and cried together.

My relationship with Jesus deepened after my husband left. Jesus became closer and closer to me. He and I laughed and cried together. He helped me to live my every day life and then, from time to time, He brought something to the surface that He wanted to change or to heal, or both.

I personally believe that God put me at Anglesey Primary School. He has taken care of me both through the people there and through other friends and family. I am now happily married again with a large, growing family – it’s wonderful being a Grandma. It’s wonderful being in God’s family too – people to love, and people to love you – as God does.