{"id":63,"date":"2013-08-08T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcnewton.co.uk\/stjames\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:05:08","slug":"children-youth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"Children, Youth and Families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Easter School Holiday Specials:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Children<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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

Sunday morning at St. James\u2019 running alongside the main Sunday service. Groups for children 3-11 during the service on the first, second, fourth and fifth Sundays and children’s activities at the  All Age Service (third Sunday). Also Sundays 9am at St Peter’s alongside their main service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lego Church<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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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>

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Babies & Toddlers<\/strong> (0-4 years)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lufton Little Lambs <\/strong>Tuesdays 10am Lufton Community Hall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abbey Toddlers <\/strong>Wednesdays 9.30am Abbey Community Centre<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tots and Toys <\/strong>Thursdays 10am St James’ Church Room<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tots and Toast <\/strong>Fridays 9.45am St Peter’s Community Centre<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youth<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

LIFT Youth Group<\/b> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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(11+) 6.30-8.30pm Sundays (term time)  at St Peter’s, Coronation Avenue. 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

The Hangout, Drop Into, Tea & Toast<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Lufton Youth Club<\/strong><\/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

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Movement Worship<\/strong><\/h2>\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

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

Primary<\/strong><\/p>\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<\/strong><\/p>\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

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

Every year on 15th October, we host a memorial service for SANDS Wave of Light for bereaved families affected by the loss of a baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Easter School Holiday Specials: Children Junior Church Sunday morning at St. James\u2019 running alongside the main Sunday service. Groups for children 3-11 during the service on the first, second, fourth and fifth Sundays and children’s activities at the  All Age Service (third Sunday). Also Sundays 9am at St Peter’s alongside their main service. Lego Church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stjamesyeovil.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}