Welcome to Woven Youth
We are passionate about every young person across our parishes encountering and deepening their relationship with Jesus. Across Woven we have different activities for teenagers to engage with.
Across our Woven Wide youth work we have:
Contact Drop In points
Clubs where relationships can be made and gifts/skills can be explored
Connection points to Jesus
Commissioning young people out into God’s kingdom in their calling
CONNECT UNITED
LAUNCHING 18TH APRIL 2024.
St Margarets Church, NG8 5GE
6:30-8pm
A half termly event where there is space for all young people to encounter Jesus. This is for people who have never come to a woven youth activity, come regularly or is in the surrounding area.
There will be social time, games, a talk and sung worship. It’s a place to bring your friends, have fun and lean into Jesus!
HOT CHOCOLATES
St Johns Church, NG8 4FD
Tuesday 3pm - 4pm
Games | Snacks | Hot Chocolate | Spaces to chat and to hang out with friends.
HOLIDAYS
Easter
Monday 1st April | Youth Drop in: Holiday Edition | St Margarets Church, Aspley, NG8 5GE 2:30-4:30pm
Tuesday 2nd April | Youth Drop in: Holiday Edition | St John’s Church, Bilborough, NG8 4FD 2:30-4:30pm
Dreaming The Impossible (DTI)
27th July - 01 August 2024
We take a group of young people away annually to DTI which is a Christian Youth Festival. This is a camping trip with lot’s of activities, main sessions with space to worship and learn more about Jesus.
FOOTBALL
Harvey Hadden Astro, NG8 4PB
Monday 6 - 7pm
Youth Football is for teenagers who want to come and play a relaxed game of football. Also have socials for this group once a term.
£1 suggested donation
YOUTH DROP-IN
St Margarets Church, NG8 5GE
Wednesday 3 - 4:45pm
Games | Food | Craft | Spaces to chat or hang out with friends.
SUNDAY GATHERINGS
Sunday morning
We welcome young people to all our churches on Sunday mornings. Many of our young people are ‘young leaders’ and help run the church services.
There is specific youth provision on Sunday mornings at St Margaret’s Church. There is food, games and we reflect, grow and learn together following the same theme as the main service.
Once a month St Marthas youth gather to engage in the bible and pray together.
Sunday evening
CONNECT
St Margaret’s Church, NG8 5GE
Sunday 6-7pm
Connect is a space where woven youth can hang out altogether. There will be food, a space to catch up and some input.
We will then join the The Seven church gathering in the main church, which is 7-8:30pm
DRAMA
St John’s Church, NG8 4FD
Monday 4 - 5:30pm
Youth Drama is a space to develop confidence, acting and performance skills. We start by eating together and then we get creative!
£1 suggested donation
We have a yearly pantomime in December! Auditions soon!
SCHOOLS
Bluecoat Trent: Mentoring
Bluecoat Aspley: Assembly’s | Leadership enrichment
Bluecoat Beechdale: Mentoring
Ellis Guilford: Group mentoring | After-school Musical Theatre club.
MENTORING/ DISCIPLESHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Throughout the week we have different time slots where we mentor and disciple individuals or work with groups of young people. This can be supporting them spiritually, educationally, behaviourally or emotionally.
We also have a Young Leaders Stream where we help young people grow in their leadership, they serve on a team and get leadership investment.
Keeping young people safe online
Dear Parents/Carers
Hope you are all well in the midst of the craziness. Just wanted to say we are praying for your family. We are building connections with your young people online and helping to create healthy content and communities for the young people to be part of.
But as we increase our online presence in a good way there are also opportunities for people to use online platforms in a bad way and we want to provide you with some resources just for you to look at to help keep your young person safe online.
The NSPCC give general online safety and have different areas for young people and adults. It has a place to report anything you feel unhappy with.
www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
Think u know is more focused around sexual content and sexual exploitation and how young people can be groomed online and where to report any concerns. This again has a platform for parents/carers as well as young people.
The children's society also offer an advice hub which covers everything from online safety, mental health and just gives a space to provide online information
https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/advice-hub
We are aware that at times young people can have difficulties and this is just some advice if your young person goes missing.
www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/runaways_parents_guide-2014_single_page.pdf
We want to support you and not scare you so please see this as some information for you to consider. No family or young person is exempt from these things.
If you have any questions or concerns please do get in touch with us and we will be more than happy to help.
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