Children and young people are valued members of the church family here at St George’s. We welcome all ages, and endeavour to involve children and young people in all aspects of church life.
Although our church building is old we have tried to make it accessible to children and families. We have baby changing facilities in the toilet area and a children's corner in the back left hand corner of the church with toys, books and colouring sheets mainly for pre-school age children. Parents are welcome to use this corner for their children during services and should watch over them at all times, we dont mind them making a noise.
Childrens church
Youngsters can join the childrens church from pre-school onwards - they meet in the tower room from the start of the service for fun, simple bible based teaching and craft activites and rejoin the main service later, before communion.
All Age Celebration Service
On the second Sunday of the month at 9.30am our whole church family comes together for an all-age service. This service is more informal in style, our music group plays and much of the service is interactive. Children and young people take an active part in the service from reading, to joining the action songs and shaking their shakers and other creative stuff!
Messy Church
Most months during the church year we hold Messy Church and seasonal children’s activity afternoons with a range of themed crafts and games or outside weather permitting.
These are very popular when we welcome a large number of children and their parents from the local community.
Please see the calendar for dates of forthcoming Messy Church and other Kidz events.
Music
Children and young people from the age of 7 years are welcome to join the choir, which takes an active part in Sunday morning services, as well as singing for special services and weddings.
Our music group welcomes young musicians in secondary school to play with them at Family Celebration services on the second Sunday of the month. They meet before the service to practise and there are a variety of different instruments.
Schools
The church has close links with Cam Hopton Church of England Primary School, and St George's PCC appoints Foundation Governors there. We enjoy welcoming the pupils and staff of the school into church to celebrate the beginning and end of each school year, and for services to mark the major Christian festivals. Cam Everlands Primary is also within the parish and attends events in church such as ‘Experience Christmas’. program
Peak Academy and Rednock secondary school are nearby. Children from Cam also attend other local schools including the Shrubberies Special School, Katherine Lady Berkeley's, Vale of Berkeley, Marling, Stroud High, Wycliffe, Dursley C of E Primary, Cam Woodfield Infants and Juniors, North Nibley, Slimbridge, Coaley, Uley and Nympsfield primaries.
Open the Book
'Open the Book' is a series of 90 Bible stories used in weekly collective worship over three school years, each lasting about ten minutes. The stories are taken from 'The Lion Storyteller Bible' by Bob Hartman and two storybooks produced locally especially for the project.
Once a week during term time, a team from St. George's takes 'Open the Book' into Cam Hopton School . Using our bag of costumes and props we dress up as the characters in the story and act it out. Normally several children will be asked to help us, and they enjoy dressing up and taking part in acting or helping with sound effects. It is a great joy and privilege to bring well-known stories from the Bible to over 200 children each week.