Messy Church lives up to its name!

On Sunday the 13th September, 8 children and 12 adults met for a breakfast of bacon butties before nervously making their way upstairs for Messy Church. Nobody, and I include myself, really knew what to expect (except mess!) but what followed was an hour of activities, interactions and, most importantly, fun.

The theme for the morning was God is not visible, but he is real.

Set out in the hall was a variety of activities which, for them to work properly, would need an invisible element, oooogh!

There was a tray full of water which, when the children played with it, produced bubbles (the invisible elements being air and washing up liquid!). There were windmills to make and coloured bubbles to blow to make bubble pictures and balloon rockets, but the most popular activity was the experiments table!

Young and old alike gathered round to try a range of experiments using mainly baking soda and vinegar. Watching with cheeky delight as liquid erupted everywhere!

Sometimes God seems to be very ‘still’ and we do not see anything happening. Maybe then we wonder if he is real at all. However God isstill there. He will always be there. And sometimes God does very dramatic things and we see the effects very noticeably. All our activities reminded us of this.

After worshiping God with a song and making paper aeroplane prayers we tidied up and just as we were leaving I heard a little voice say ‘can we do this every week’!!! Hurray! Messy Church was a hit!

Messy Church is for everyone, regardless of age please come and worship.