Author: Hazel Berry

Soulscape

Soulscape empower young people to explore their own stories of faith, relationships and education, encouraging them to tell it their own way. To enable this they provide…

  • Personal stories, opinions research, and a variety of Christian perspectives on a whole range of issues for them to question challenge and formulate.

  • Creative safe spaces and activities outside the pressures of life that connect with their soul and develop their spiritual literacy.

  • Positive contexts for reviewing the story of education and tools to help make positive choices.

soulscapeRecently over 1000 children from across the Wokingham area have been part of the Mind the Gap project, helping children transition from primary to secondary school.

Soulscape’s purpose is to create space to explore life.

That means physical and mental  space, purposely  created in our schools, to go deeper than the superficial ‘stuff ‘ that bombards young people. Soulscape engages them in a much deeper conversation, that helps them search their soul in meaningful engaging ways. Helping them navigate the world in which they live and ask the big questions…

For more info visit their website http://soulscape.org.uk

Contrast Youth Group

Contrast Youth Group runs every Sunday evening in term time for kids in school years 6-8. They meet at St James’ Church, Finchampstead for fun, food and chat. Do come along to meet new people, or bring your friends with you!

Subs are £1.50 a week and there are also sweets for sale.

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6pm – 7:30pm.

Finchampstead also runs a monthly group for older teens, meeting in the curate’s house. Please contact the church office on 01189 730133 for more information.

Thinking of going on retreat?

There are a number of places, near and far, which offer time away for prayer and silence. Here are some which you may want to investigate!sheldon

The Society of Mary and Martha at Sheldon, Devon www.sheldon.uk.com

Theological College Ripon College, Cuddesdon, just outside of Oxford, set in beautiful rural countryside http://www.rcc.ac.uk/conference-facilities/retreats-and-sabbaticals 

St Columba’s House, Woking http://stcolumbashouse.org.uk/rcc

For more information and ideas visit this Diocesan website article on retreats http://www.oxford.anglican.org/18669/

or visit The Retreat Association website http://www.retreats.org.uk/

Good News for Young People

Melanie Hawgood
PA to Director of Mission, Admin to PDA’s and Christian Giving and Funding Adviser writes:

For those of you that were able to attend one of the ‘Good News for Young People’ days or evenings, we hope you found it enjoyable and useful in the mission to reach out and engage through your Church with young people. For those that were not able to attend, you may be interested in viewing a recording of one of the days which was kindly recorded by Bill Blakey in St John the Evangelist, Carterton. This recording, presentation and booklet ‘101 (or more) Ideas for developing church and school communities’ are now available on our website via the following link:

http://www.oxford.anglican.org/good-news-for-young-people/

Alternatively the document can be downloaded here.

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