{"id":25500,"date":"2024-02-20T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_event&#038;p=25500"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:47:05","slug":"messy-church","status":"publish","type":"ctc_event","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_event=messy-church","title":{"rendered":"Messy Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em><strong>Our theme is &#8220;Spring Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<p>Come and join us for Easter, activities, music and food.&nbsp;&nbsp; <em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>All ages are welcome. Please bring your children along and stay with them during the session. Tea and coffee will be available.<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Messy Church\u2019 is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a form of church for children and adults that involves creativity, celebration and hospitality.<\/li>\n<li>it meets at a time (and sometimes in a place) that suits people who don&#8217;t necessarily belong to church.<\/li>\n<li>it typically includes a welcome, a creative time to explore a biblical theme through getting messy; a short celebration time involving story, prayer, song, games and similar; and sharing food together.<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s fun.<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s a church for people at all stages of their faith journey and of any age.<\/li>\n<li>it models and promotes good ways of growing as a family: a nuclear family, an extended family, and a global and local church family.<\/li>\n<li>its aim is to introduce Jesus, to give an opportunity to encounter him and to grow closer to him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>We really look forward to seeing you and preparing our church for Easter.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our theme is &#8220;Spring Time&#8221; Come and join us for Easter, activities, music and food.&nbsp;&nbsp; All ages are welcome. Please bring your children along and stay with them during the session. Tea and coffee will be available. Just a reminder: \u2018Messy Church\u2019 is: a form of church for children and adults that involves creativity, celebration&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_event_category":[317,319,312,363],"class_list":["post-25500","ctc_event","type-ctc_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_event_category-community","ctc_event_category-event","ctc_event_category-lent","ctc_event_category-outreach","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/25500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/25500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27589,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/25500\/revisions\/27589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_event_category&post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}