Welcome to a place of celebration and creativity!! Here conversation and laughter fill the air, and food, fun and faith are shared. Messy Church is where people of all ages come together to discover Jesus at work amongst us.
Our October Messy Church spent time considering the story of Ruth, Naomi (her mother-in-law) and Boaz (a distant cousin). The story reveals God's heart and intention for us all to be generous and kind, to share the excess of our 'harvest' with those who are in need, and to look out for the foreigner and stranger in our communiities. We do not need to know all the details about another person in order to be kind to them.
At harvest time we collect fruit, vegetables or grain which have grown from different seeds planted in different seasons and places. The 'harvest' we brought to share with others was displayed on our harvest table for all to celebrate the variety of foods (and the places where they were grown!).
We also used a mixture of different grasses, corn, acorns and sycamore keys to create a fruitful seedy collage in the shape of a pumpkin! When we see these fruits of trees and grasses, we give thanks to God for all we have been given and share as much as we can with others..
We also thought about the things that we are thankful for ... warm homes, family, friends, food, people who help us or listen to us when we aren't too sure about things we see or hear or feel, God's Love and kindness for each one of us, the leaves of trees.as they turn colour in the autumn. We wrote our 'thank you' prayers on to real leaves and created .a new sort of tree ... a prayer tree! .
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Join us with "becoming peacemakers" as the theme of the next Messy Church on
Sunday 9th November 2025 (3pm-5pm) .
We look forward to seeing you!
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