Children, Youth and Families

Easter Events in the Parish

5th-21st April “Sheep Hunt” at St Peter and St Paul, Lufton

Saturday 12th April 10.30am Easter Messy Church at St Peter’s Yeovil

Monday 14th April 10-12 Children’s Easter Activities at Lufton Community Hall

Wednesday 9th, Weds 16th April 4-5.30 ‘The Hangout at Easter’ at St Peter’s

Thurs 10th, Thurs 17th 4-5.30 ‘Drop Into Easter’ at St Peter’s

Friday 18th April 10-12 Good Friday Family Fun at St James’

Monday 21st April 10.30-12 Easter Monday Children’s Activities and Easter Egg Hunt at St Peter & St Paul, Lufton

Children

Junior Church

Sunday morning at St Peter’s running alongside the 9am service.

Lego Church

On the 4th Sunday of the month at 10.30am, a new “Lego Church” has started at St Peter’s. ‘Build’ church together with Lego, Minecraft or Duplo.

Messy Church

The second Saturday of each month is Messy Church at St Peter’s for families with children aged 0-11. Arts and crafts, bible stories and lots of mess and fun followed by lunch. All welcome!

Babies and Toddlers

Abbey Toddlers 9.30-11 every Wednesday in termtime at Abbey Manor Community Centre. See what we get up to via the Facebook page. All welcome!

Tots & Toys 10-11.30 every Thursday in termtime at St James’ Church. All welcome!

Tots & Toast 9.45-11.30 every Friday in termtime at St Peter’s.

Youth

Lift 6.30-8.30pm Sundays (term time)  at St Peter’s. Contact our Youth Worker Ruth Glendinning for details.  We meet to play games, hang out together and find out more about God.

Tea and Toast, The Hangout and Drop Into…

at St Peter’s Community Centre on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

Lufton Youth Club

Meet at Lufton Community Hall on the Agusta estate on Friday evenings 7-9. £1 entry, tuck available to purchase.

Movement Worship

Our Lift Youth Group joins with others from around Yeovil to worship together every couple of months at Movement Worship.

Schools

Primary

We have strong links with our local church school Preston Primary, with Kingfisher Primary on the new Agusta Park and Oaklands Primary School in the parish. Children from the primary schools come for visits to St James’ and our clergy David and Sarah visit the schools regularly.

Secondary

Christian Unions run by our youth worker with other local church youth leaders take place at lunchtimes in both the secondary schools in our parish Westfield Academy and Preston Academy.

Baby Loss Awareness

Every year on 15th October, we host a memorial service at our sister church St James’ for SANDS Wave of Light for bereaved families affected by the loss of a baby.