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Godly Play
 Our junior church called Young St John’s runs alongside the Sunday morning service every week in term time. It takes place in the Knoyle Hall next door to the church starting at 9.30am. This year we are very excited to be continuing with Godly Play for the following dates:
29th January, 5th, 12th & 26th February, 4th & 11th March (no meeting half term 19th February).
Godly Play is a creative and imaginative way of exploring Christianity through storytelling and invites the child into the story and encourages them to explore their own responses to each story through asking questions, sharing responses and making  crafts.
We would love to welcome new children to join us as we continue with this new way of exploring faith.
Read all about Godly Play at www.godlyplay.org.uk
PASTORATES:
WHAT WILL THEY DO FOR ME?
We have now assembled our congregation at St John’s into five groups of 30-40 people, which we are calling “Pastorates”. Each Pastorate has a team of three Co-ordinators whose role is to find out how each person would like to be involved in the Pastorate, to pray for everyone in the group, get to know them, co-ordinate any help needed (such as lifts to church or home communion) and to organise social events and activities.
The whole idea of having Pastorates is to enable smaller groups of people to get to know one another and care for one another together. The Co-ordinators are not the only people who will be active in the group. Many people are already active in these ways. The hope is that anyone who is interested will get involved in the activities of the Pastorate, whether getting to know and praying for one another, organising social events or keeping in touch with people who are away for any reason. There is no limit to what these groups might do – involvement in charities, worship, local community issues, church projects are all possible.
For people who are already active and well known within the church community, Pastorates might not seem anything new, but for those who have more recently joined, they will be a way of getting to know a smaller group of people, which may be less daunting, and finding out how to be involved in ways that fit them. The most important hope is that Pastorates will be places where people can help one another to grow in their life as Christians, through friendship and shared activities.
So the question is not so much “What will they do for me?” The real question, which will only be answered in time as Pastorates develop is,
“WHAT WILL WE DO TOGETHER?”
Please find here the Pastorate leaflet giving further information
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