Young People
All people are always welcomed by all 3 churches, whatever their age. In order to encourage family, children and youth inclusiveness, we do our best to make special provision for younger people at the family freindly services as follows:
St. Helen's Church at Trowell,
St. Catherine's Church at Cossall,
St. Peters Church at Awsworth.
Cossall
Children of all ages are really welcome to drop in to the St Catherine's
Children's Group during the All Age Worship service every first and third
Sunday of the month at 09:30 am.
The children join with the rest of the congregation to start the service and spend 30 minutes with group leaders in the vestry or old school room hearing stories, singing songs and creating craft and artwork. The children then show and tell the grown ups in the service what they have been doing and we all sing the last song together.
For more information, please contact Kate Morgan: see the contacts
page for details.
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Trowell
There are currently a core group of 40 + children who attend the 10:30 am
service on a Sunday morning. They are taught (during school term time) by
a dedicated team of workers who use material from various sources to give
the children a balanced spiritual input.
Everybody is together as a church family at the beginning and the end of each service. Children are encouraged to go off with their age groups for the 'teaching' sessions each week ?except for in the Holy Communion services, on week four of each calendar month? when we all stay together.
The location of this depends on where the whole church are meeting, as we frequently make use the parish hall due to there being so many of us. So "another building" may mean the church or the church hall.
The specific age groups are:
| Crèche (0-3 yrs) | Facilities are provided for parents to supervise their children during any part of the service, in a room near to where the rest of the church are. | |
| 4-7 yrs | Are taught in a separate room near where the rest of the church are, or in another building. | |
| 8-11 yrs. | Are taught in a separate room, or in another building. | |
| ShAlive (12-14 yrs) | (St Helen's Alive) are taught in a separate room, or in another building. These also meet together before the main service on week four. | |
| AS (14 +) | (After Shock) these stay as adults for the whole service. Also meet on Wednesday nights to study the bible, pray and chill out together. |
Youth Work at Trowell:
We employ a part time youth worker, currently Bex Niemiec.
Many of the activities are reaching out to 'non churched' as
well as young people from church, and are having an effect in the community.
They include The Happening for 11 to 16 year olds. We run this
fortnightly on Thursdays as an open youth club with Christian teaching.
| After Shock also plan, organise and lead one of the morning services once a term. We have extra social, community and outreach activities alongside our midweek programme. |  |
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| The youth go to events such as 'Passionate' a Christian youth club once a fortnight or 'Destiny' weekly in Nottingham. As well as these activities, there have been one off social events such as a sports hall social night. | ||
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