Dec 2017 - Jan 2018


Quest and Junior Church: Children’s Church at St Helen’s Edmund and Philip


At the Sunday morning 10.30 services we have two groups for children called Junior Church and Quest. Junior Church is for the younger children and Quest is for 8-14-year olds. Some members of Quest are in the church choir and others are from the congregation. Some are at church most weeks and others just come oc- casionally. There are nor- mally 5-10 children in each group.


At the beginning of the service, Junior Church and the leaders process round the church with a banner. We then walk over to the Church Centre and stay there until half- way through the service.


Quest stay in the service to listen to the Bible read- ings, and then we go out to the Church Centre when the sermon starts. The idea is to return in time for the offertory hymn but sometimes we are


late back. We meet in the upstairs room. Junior Church don’t go upstairs but stay downstairs. We usually finish at around the same time but Junior Church sometimes finish a bit later.


Junior Church activities are things like singing, colour- ing, listening to stories and playing games. In Quest we often have a look at the readings we heard in church and think and chat about how we interpret them. We will typically then do an activity such as watching a video, looking at some pic- tures or making something, and then return to church.


Quest at work


Recently Quest had an af- ternoon party on Friday of half term. We played some games and had a quiz and then had some food and watched a film. We all thor- oughly enjoyed it and in-


tend to have more of these sorts of events.


Another Secret Garden Silvia Joinson


If you feel frazzled battling the London shopping crowds in Oxford Street, try going down one of the side streets opposite Selfridges. Here you will find an oasis of calm in the Brown Hart garden. It was created in 1906 on top of an electricity sub- station which still provides power for much of the area. There is a lift or stairs up to the garden which has recently been rejuvenated.


The space, 10,000 square feet has a limestone deck, water feature, small trees and planters. These are well maintained and changed according to the season. At the west end there is a pleasant cafe with three glass walls where the gardens can be enjoyed in comfort if it is not warm enough to sit outside.


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The Brown Hart Garden


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