{"id":2756,"date":"2025-03-27T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/?page_id=2756"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:06:33","slug":"children-youth-and-families","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/?page_id=2756","title":{"rendered":"Children, Youth and Families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Easter School Holiday Specials:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Junior Church<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sunday morning at St Peter’s running alongside the 9am service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Messy Church<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>
\n

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!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Babies and Toddlers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n

Abbey Toddlers<\/strong> 9.30-11 every Wednesday in termtime at Abbey Manor Community Centre. See what we get up to via the Facebook page. All welcome!<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>
\n

Tots & Toys<\/strong> 10-11.30 every Thursday in termtime at St James’ Church. All welcome!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

Tots & Toast<\/strong> 9.45-11.30 every Friday in termtime at St Peter’s.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Youth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>
\n

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

\"\"<\/figure>
\n

Tea and Toast, The Hangout and Drop Into…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

at St Peter’s Community Centre on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lufton Youth Club<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Meet at Lufton Community Hall on the Agusta estate on Friday evenings 7-9. \u00a31 entry, tuck available to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Movement Worship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our Lift Youth Group joins with others from around Yeovil to worship together every couple of months at Movement Worship<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Schools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Primary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Baby Loss Awareness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easter School Holiday Specials: Children Junior Church Sunday morning at St Peter’s running alongside the 9am service. 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 … Continue reading Children, Youth and Families<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2756","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2756\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stpeters-yeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}