The Church of England in the Wokingham Area
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.
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.
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!
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/
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/
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.
