Children & Families
Lord’s alive - Bring God's love to children and families
Providing an engaging and varied offer of services and events for children, young people and families is a priority for the Benefice. Kay Shuard is our licensed Authorised Lay Minister (ALM) for Children & Families work.
Kay works 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. Together with Rev Gary and the Open the Book team, they engage through regular school visits, school assemblies, Open the Book 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.
Details of future events will be posted here. We also work closely with other churches in the Malvern and Upton Deanery. Locally Great Malvern Priory and Severnside Parishes (Kempsey) offer a range of family friendly services and events throughout the year
Pre-school and toddlers service
This service held at St Mary’s Church, Madresfield 1.45pm to 2.15pm is run by Rosemary McCulloch and is open to all pre-school children and toddlers. It is a short, engaging service based on a story or theme from the Bible. Children from Madresfield Early Years Centre always come along to join in and other children and their parents/carers are most welcome. Take a look at the churches’ calendar to find details of the next session.
Open the book
If you like storytelling and have a flair for the dramatic, why not join our Open the Book story tellers as they visit our three church schools. Opportunities are available to join in bringing the Bible to life in a gentle and creative way. Contact us for more details. Participation does entail satisfactory completion of a DBS safeguarding check.
Can you help us grow?
Can you spare a couple of hours a month?
Can you sing and would love to help join in with the children’s songs?
Or do you love crafting, could you help with some activities?
If you would like to get involved in helping us develop our activities for children and young people, we would love to hear from you.
Get in touch by using the form below.