Messy Church

Messy Church is a way to make Church accessible to families - and a fun place to be.

St Andrew's Elders have thought about holding Messy church sessions for a while - encouraged by Wilma Prentice. We held our first ever Messy even on December 10th 2011 - Messy Christmas.

We have now held our second event - Messy Spring.

Our afternoons began with an hour of crafts - then we had a short chat in Church, from Wilma, and sang a children friendly song, before all sharing sandwiches, sausages, crisps, cake and other goodies.

Each Messy Church session so far has been great fun for all involved - we plan to hold Messy Church sessions 4 times a year at present - look out for our Summer event!

Pictures from Messy Christmas are in the Church Photobucket Account

These pictures are from Messy Spring on Saturday March 21st.

We did some Messy Baking -



And there was some messy planting -



Some Messy crafting -





And, as it was almost Easter - we followed the old tradition of painted hard-boiled eggs;



Which turned out to be not too messy at all -



Because we made sure they got nicely dried;



Then we went into Church -



For a not so messy message -



Before we had a very yummy tea together - but I put the camera down to eat mine...