Messy Church at Home Archives - St James Woodley https://stjameswoodley.org/category/messy-church-at-home/ Fri, 08 Apr 2022 20:45:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 April Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2022/04/april-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=april-messy-church Fri, 08 Apr 2022 20:45:08 +0000 https://stjameswoodley.org/?p=11318 Our April Messy Church continues our ‘Meals with Jesus’ series. We have seen that Jesus welcomed anyone and everyone. He shared a table with the people noone else wanted – the bad, the sinful, the broken and needy – like Zacchaeus and the woman with the perfume. Jesus was with his friends, the disciples. They’d […]

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]]> March Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2022/03/march-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=march-messy-church Sat, 12 Mar 2022 16:08:50 +0000 https://stjameswoodley.org/?p=11185 March’s Messy Church explores another meal with Jesus. We meet a really unpleasant man who wasn’t liked by anyone – he was mean and nasty and even cheated people. Jesus chose to invite himself round to his house for a meal. We don’t know what Jesus and Zacheaus discussed but after the time he spent […]

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]]> February Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2022/02/february-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=february-messy-church Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:34:24 +0000 https://stjameswoodley.org/?p=11100 This month at Messy Church we are starting a new series. Each month we’re exploring a different meals with Jesus. This month while Jesus is having a meal at Simon’s house when a woman pours some VERY expensive perfume over Jesus’ feet. It caused quite a stir. You can read about it in Luke 7: […]

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]]> Christmas Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2021/12/christmas-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=christmas-messy-church Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:52:00 +0000 https://stjameswoodley.org/?p=10965 I know there will be lots of families unable to join us in person this year for our Christmas Messy Church so I’m including as many of the activities here so you can join in from home too. Our theme for our Christmas Messy Church is Come and See. Come and see what God did […]

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]]> Noah: September Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2021/09/noah-september-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=noah-september-messy-church Sat, 11 Sep 2021 17:11:44 +0000 https://stjameswoodley.org/?p=10660 The story of Noah is a familiar one to us… all the animals marching 2×2 into the huge ark where they were safe from the flood that would destroy the earth.. But I wonder does it make you think of it as a wake up call, a chance for us to take better care of […]

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]]> Messy Church: Summer Challenges July 2021 https://stjameswoodley.org/2021/07/messy-church-summer-challenges-july-2021/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=messy-church-summer-challenges-july-2021 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:17:19 +0000 http://stjameswoodley.org/?p=10529 It was lovely to meet up with some families for a picnic, games and time to catch up this month. With the summer holidays upon us what can you do to fill the days with your children? Here are some Summer challenges that might help you and your children have fun filled summer holidays. There […]

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]]> June 2021 Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2021/06/june-2021-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=june-2021-messy-church Sun, 13 Jun 2021 15:49:44 +0000 http://stjameswoodley.org/?p=10384 This month we’re looking at the story of Jairus’s daugher. A story about holding onto Jesus when things are really hard. These past 15 months have been really hard and have, at times, really been challenging to have faith. How do we ‘just have faith’ when times are difficult? As we explore the story of […]

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]]> May 2021 Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2021/05/may-2021-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=may-2021-messy-church Fri, 07 May 2021 10:47:57 +0000 http://stjameswoodley.org/?p=10249 After appearing to his friends lots of times, it is time for Jesus to leave… You can read what happened in Acts 1: 1-11 Here we see Jesus going from a very ordinary meal with his disciples to a glorious moment when heaven and earth come close together, as he leaves his friends to go […]

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]]> April 2021 Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2021/04/april-2021-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=april-2021-messy-church Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:03:23 +0000 http://stjameswoodley.org/?p=10152 Happy Easter. Wow! what a rollercoaster the disciples have been on for the past week… They had been part of the celebration of Palm Sunday … could Jesus be the King they had been waiting for many many years? Been surprised and puzzled by the events of The last Supper. They had watched in disbelief […]

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]]> March 2021 Messy Church https://stjameswoodley.org/2021/03/march-2021-messy-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=march-2021-messy-church Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:30:24 +0000 http://stjameswoodley.org/?p=9976 Happy Mothers Day. Today we’re exploring the story of Ruth and how we all can belong to God’s family. It’s hard to believe that March 2021 was the last time Messy Church were all able to meet in person. What a year it has been. You may feel that you want to mark this time […]

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