craft Archives - St James Woodley https://stjameswoodley.org/tag/craft/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:32:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Betty Greene https://stjameswoodley.org/2022/07/betty-greene/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=betty-greene Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:36:07 +0000 https://stjameswoodley.org/?p=11671 This week we find out how Betty Greene did great things for God. Is there something you really want to do? Betty Greene (1920-1997) wanted to learn to fly from the age of 7. And with some money given to her by her uncle, that’s exactly what she did. When World War II started, Betty […]

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]]> Elijah and the ravens https://stjameswoodley.org/2022/04/elijah-and-the-ravens/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elijah-and-the-ravens Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:30:20 +0000 https://stjameswoodley.org/?p=11379 Today we start a new series in church all about Elijah. Elijah was a prophet, he listened to God and told the people God’s messages. Sometimes these were not very popular messages and it could spell trouble for the prophet. In todays story Elijah delivers God’s message to King Ahab but he’s not very happy. […]

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]]> I don’t believe it https://stjameswoodley.org/2022/04/i-dont-believe-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-dont-believe-it Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:14:37 +0000 https://stjameswoodley.org/?p=11358 I wonder how often you hear people say ‘I don’t believe it!’ I expect that very first Easter morning it was said a lot!! After all they had all witnessed Jesus dying on the cross – such pain, torture. No one could have survived that. Jesus’ body was place in the tomb and a huge […]

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]]> 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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]]> Sunday 20th June: Pray https://stjameswoodley.org/2021/06/sunday-20th-june-pray/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sunday-20th-june-pray Sat, 19 Jun 2021 18:11:46 +0000 http://stjameswoodley.org/?p=10409 Prayer is the way we communicate with God. How do we pray? We can talk to Him with words, pictures, music, silence and lots of other ways too, and He communicates with us in different ways to. How do you communicate with God? How does God communicate with you? The Cheeky pandas are going to […]

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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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