URC Children's and Youth Work

Resources for everyone engaging with children, young people and young adults.

This resource explores the theme of stories – our story, God’s story, the stories Jesus told – and how the three intermingle; with an exploration of five different genres of story for all ages as well as the usual variety of articles, puzzles, colouring pages and more.

You’ll find a wide variety of ways to involve everyone, whatever their age or stage, across the year, and you will discover a wealth of material to enjoy with children, young people, young adults and in intergenerational contexts.

The resource headings for sections are only guides – please don’t limit yourself to those that most obviously fit your context as you will find great ideas you can adapt in other places.

If you don’t have any children of young people connected with your church, please:

• Enjoy the colouring pages and use some of the prayers, Bible studies and other materials with your adult groups
• Pray for those churches nearest to you which do, and the children and young people in your local community
• Offer these resources to your nearest uniformed group or school

Children's and Youth Work March 2024 Update

As part of the URC children launch  cloth badges are being produced which may be of interest to URCGSF. The synods will have a supply of them and there will be some available in church house. I believe they are 50p per badge.

Note:

You can contact us by email on children.youth@urc.org.uk or phone on 020 7916 8683. Our website is here ,,facebook here and Twitter @URCCYW or you can use good old snail mail.

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Help with prayer/reflection time

The C&YW department is looking at the possibility of producing cards which will include prayer prompts and ideas for reflections based on worldly themes and with a possible link to the activities undertaken.  There would probably be two sets aimed at two different age groups.

If you feel that these cards might be helpful to you, please let Sharon know, without commitment, of your interest. Contact her here.

Additionally, if you are interested in contributing towards the content of the cards, Sharon would be pleased to hear from you.