Shire Green United Reformed Church in Yorkshire Synod has become the first church to receive a plaque and certificate marking their engagement with the new Children and Youth Friendly Church scheme.
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Good News Stories
This page is for all the good news stories out there worth sharing. Please do send us stories and photos of the things that you are doing (big or small) in your local church or synod, and let’s celebrate together how God is at work within our children and young people throughout the United Reformed Church.
Bulwell URC resounds to the joyful sound of children playing
Bulwell URC ran a successful holiday club for 30 children aged five to eleven, with help with funding from the URC Children's and Youth Work small grants fund.
The church, which had for so long stood quiet during the pandemic, once again reverberated with the joyful sound of children playing as thirty children between the ages of five and eleven took part in two days of holiday club.
Thinking Day in Rhyl URC
It was good to hear from the Revd Paul Robinson about the Rhyl District Girlguide Thinking Day celebrations and commemorations on Saturday which was hosted by his church.
There were about 120 children and young people and around 20 members of the trefoil and leaders who gathered at The United Church in Rhyl for the Rhyl District Girl Guide Thinking Day event. The children and young people spent time learning about different cultures and countries from around the world, with each pack organising activities about each country. Filling in a passport the children ‘visited’ each country. There were the obligatory sticky bun refreshments, and then the day concluded with a short service that was hosted by the Trefoil, and which I helped to lead. During that service everyone renewed their girl guiding promises, prayers were offered for the countries they had ‘visited’, and I led them in a reflection about the importance of keeping promises using a mouldy sticky bun and black banana. An offering was made by each pack for WAGGS. It was a busy, chaotic, but wonderful afternoon together!
Scouting in Desborough during Lockdown
The Revd Helen Wakefield-Carr writes about her and her children's experience of lockdown and how Scouting as helped inspire a wealth of activities to keep them all busy.
Real Christmas Presence at Reigate Park URC
Reuben Watt, Youth Assembly Moderator Elect, shared with us some good news from the Christmas season 2019.
"Last November and December, over 800 year 2 students from 13 different schools visited Redhill Methodist Church and Reigate Park URC. They all came to attend the Christmas Journey.
"The Christmas Journey is an interactive retelling of the Christmas story exploring why Christmas is important to Christians.. The children had the opportunity to make bread with Mary, help the shepherds look after the sheep on the hill side, visit the stable and hear the story from the perspective of the animals, and meet a very special angel. The children also explored where the Christmas story fits in the wider bible story, using Godly Play, and found out more about the Wise men and their gifts.
"It was such a special experience for all as well as the 60 plus volunteers from the local churches!"
