Children & Families

Providing an engaging and varied offer of services and events for children, young people and families is a priority for the Benefice. Vicky Whitehouse and Kay Shuard are our licensed Authorised Lay Ministers (ALM) for Children and Youth work, and they work alongside a team of volunteers to provide opportunities for children and their families to get more involved in the life of their local church, not just on a Sunday morning but out and about in their communities as well.

Kay and Vicky work closely with each of the three church schools in the Benefice (Callow End, Madresfield and Powick), supporting the life of the schools as embodied in their children, parents, and staff. They engage through regular school services, school assemblies, Open the Book, Worship Crews in all three primary schools and class visits to church.

Children are welcome at all services, but we recognise that it can be a challenge to maintain their interest for the entire time, so all our churches have a children’s corner and there is child/family-focused services or/events held every month in one of our village churches for the whole Benefice.

Details of future events will be posted here. We also work closely with other churches in the Malvern and Upton Deanery, in particular Severnside Parishes (Kempsey), who offer a range of family friendly services and events throughout the year: http://www.severnsideparishes.co.uk/

When the Covid-19 pandemic began in March 2020 Vicky and Kay began producing monthly videos to replace the family services.  Please see all our videos on the Links page of the website.