Godly play comes to Birmingham

We're all very excited at City Road Methodist Church in Birmingham because next Sunday we start using Godly Play as the basis for our Junior Church work.

Our team are really enthusiastic and this is the outcome of about nine months prayer and research as they sought a way to bring children and their parents into our building.

The programme comes with a whole lot of new and fresh resources which have been supplemented by training sessions provided at circuit level.

In the next few days we are going to be decorating the front of the Church. We have a large window that opens onto one of Birmingham's busiest roads (the outer circle A4040, the eleven bus route) and for some time we have felt that we don't make enough of the opportunity such a position affords. There is going to be lots of colour and lots of light!

Last week we put a Bible in the window and within hours found that passers by were stopping and reading! It was opened to John 3:16 so they got the creed all on one page!

So we wait with interest to see the outcome of this new work. As I said on Sunday when I preached - we'd rather have a church where children can sometimes be a nuisance than a church without children.

If you live anywhere near Birmingham and want your children - of whatever age - to have a new insight into scripture and Christian belief, feel free to join us at 11.00am every Sunday.