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Trish Hahn, Messy Church SEND Pioneer, launched her first SEND Messy Church over 16 years ago. You can read about how she got going and her journey here.
Estate Messy Church in South East London, thriving, after introducing some changes and refreshing how they did Messy Church!
Starting small but growing in confidence, Messy Church at St Edburgha’s, Yardley is finding its rhythm. Through reflection, teamwork and trust in one another’s gifts, this new ministry is beginning to flourish.
Lis Telcs is the children and families minister at St Nicholas’ Church in Saltdean near Brighton, a highly inclusive – look them up on www.achurchnearyou.com – warmly welcoming anglo-Catholic congregation. Lis recently contacted the Messy Church support team to ask them to pray for a very special occasion: Holly and daughter Lily had asked to be baptised in a Messy Church celebration. With their kind permission, Lis shares their story.
Worthen Church is a vibrant church community that has been offering Messy Church for a number of years. The Messy Church is led by two church wardens, Ann and Vicky Jones, and is a core part of the church’s ministry in the community, where it seeks to serve others and, hopefully, transform lives.
Lydia Harrison is the children and family work enabler in the Goole and Selby Methodist Circuit. There are five Messy Churches in the circuit and Lydia also volunteers with the Messy Church national team as a reader and writer and prayer team co-ordinator. ‘Prayer’ she says, ‘is completely integral to all of that’, so who better to talk to about the Messy perspective on prayer.
Read about the first year of an ecumenical Messy Church meeting in a community centre on an estate.
