Messy Church at the Darent Valley Benefice

14/04/2022

There will be a Good Friday Messy Church session tomorrow 10am-11.30am at St John's Sutton-at-Hone, for children and their grown-ups... Easter gardens, other crafts, and hot cross buns. No cost or pre-booking - just turn up!

Also an all-age Easter service on Sunday, 10am at St John's, and an Easter Egg hunt afterwards. All welcome, always. 🧡

30/11/2021

Messy Church is back for Christmas! So that we don't get too crowded, we will run on two separate afternoons, 2pm-4pm this Saturday 4th December and again on Saturday 11th December.

Messy Church meets at St Margaret's Church Darenth, on Darenth Hill/Parsonage Lane, behind the war memorial. There will be Christmas crafts to do, and a shared tea. There is no cost.

If you would like to come, it's important that you book your child(ren) onto one of the sessions in advance. No need for children under twelve months to book if they are accompanying older siblings/friends.

To book for 4th December: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/messy-church-christmas-tickets-216931416707

To book for 11th December: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/messy-church-christmas-tickets-216944515887

Looking forward to seeing you if you can make it!

02/04/2021

Hello everyone, and well done smaller people (and teachers and school staff) for making it through another school term. You're all stars! ⭐

If you have a minute to spare today or tomorrow morning, could you do me (it's Revd Emma here by the way) a favour? I'm looking for as many people as possible to take a video of themselves simply saying "alleluia, Christ is risen!" and then whatsapping it to me on 07563 276794. I'm going to put them all together into a church Easter video - since we can't all be together in person, we can at least see each other's lovely faces together on screen.

I'll be editing them all together into the video at lunchtime tomorrow, so any time before then is perfect. Thanks in advance! x

31/12/2020

To all our messy churchers what a year we have had. We have missed you all so much and are praying for a return soon to see how you’ve all grown! Happy new year to you all lots of love from all the messy church team 🥳

02/07/2020

Reverend Emma had a beautiful baby girl on Monday morning they’ve called her Rowan and I’m sure we would all like to wish her a huge congratulations from all of us at messy church ###

12/04/2020

At Messy Church in March, we made Lent candle wreaths to help us count the weeks to Easter. Now Easter's here - and here's Anne's candle wreath, all lit up! 😊 If you made a wreath too, we'd love to see photos!

12/04/2020

He is risen.

Happy Easter, everyone! You are loved. There is nothing to fear.

11/04/2020

06/04/2020

Hello Messy Church friends! We really missed seeing you all on Saturday.

Here's a project to do instead... see if you can make a cross - using pens, or paint, or tying sticks together, or chalk drawing outside, or building out of Lego... anything you can think of really - and take a photo of it. Post the photo to this page.

Later they'll all be put together into one big picture showing that we're together in spirit even while we're apart. 🥰 And we'll be able to print and share them with the members of our church family who aren't online and are a bit lonely, which will be a lovely thing to do. 👍

Stay safe everyone. Ready to get making? ... go!

04/03/2020

So not your normal messy church post but a community one. Brownies and Rainbows are looking for helpers either full on leaders or people who can commit on a semi regular basis. This is a great opportunity for young girls in the village and really develops skills for them. Vanessa Eloie

06/02/2020

This has just been posted on the local page such a shame this playgroup was so lovely. If anyone can go along to show the ladies that it is wanted and needed would be much appreciated. Please share to anyone you know with a little one