Children & Families

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Family Services

The Family Service happens very Sunday apart from during the month of August.

The service starts at 10:00 and lasts just half an hour.

Our weekly Family Service is relaxed and full of fun and chatter – no baby is too young and no child is too old as older children (11 +) enjoy being an extra pair of hands and helping with the play.

• We begin with the Children’s Choir singing a mini anthem, there is a Bible Reading from our Children’s Bible (read by one of the children), we say the Creed, followed by short prayers and then the reading is acted out and the Vicar sums up the story.
• There is great emphasis on dressing up and even the tiniest child can toddle along and take part.
• Listen carefully and you might win a chocolate if you give a correct answer to one of the questions at the end of the play.
• We sing 3 hymns from our own Chelsea Old Church Children’s Hymnbook and the children can even take up the collection if they want to.

Animal Services

Once a year we have an Animal Service and the children bring their pets (real or of a cuddly variety – from stick insects to hamsters, tortoises, dogs and cats).

On Palm Sunday, we even have two donkeys who parade into church with a child on their backs.