Marshmallows and Spaghetti

What is the tallest structure you can build using only marshmallows and spaghetti?  Our young people’s group had fun finding out last Sunday.  What the marshmallows and spaghetti taught us was that, though individually we may feel weak, by working together we can be strong.

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A New Year for our Children’s Groups

September marks the beginning of the new school year, and also the re-starting of our young people’s groups.  In what has become an annual tradition, our minister Ruth marked the occasion by recommissioning the leaders and helpers of these groups, blessing them all for another year of ministry. Two of our young people, Alice Bagshaw […]

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Happy Birthday to Us!

At Fleet URC we are celebrating our 103rd anniversary.   Here’s a photo of our young people with a special card made by the Loaves and Fishes group.  The knitted sheep they are holding represent all of us, God’s flock, who frequently wander away or get lost.   Yet God knows us each by name […]

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Our Young People Prepare for Christmas

Our Loaves and Fishes young people’s group decorated this screen, which illustrates the Christmas story – ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’. Our Pilots group have been talking about Christingle and its symbolic meaning: an orange representing the world; a red ribbon tied round it to represent the blood of Christ; dolly mixtures to represent the […]

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Friends and Heroes (1)

Our Loaves and Fishes group are following the series ‘Friends and Heroes’, which is an animated children’s adventure about two young friends (Macky and Portia) as they fight for justice against the Roman Empire. Each episode features stories from the Bible, which enables children to learn about characters from the Old and New Testaments. Last […]

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