Walk the walk, talk the talk...

So we are well and truly a group moving forward together now. We have settled into a regular group, still finding some coming for a first time ad others dipping in and out. But it has been greatly encouraging to see the group growing from being lots of different groups with those from different schools or church separating themselves to us starting to see them gelling together, and it's great. Young people particularly have an ID when they are in their school uniforms and its great to see them in their own clothes establishing what identity they want to take, and in a group like this seeing characters grow.

We've been really encouraged in the past few weeks, with parents chatting at the end, we are inviting parents in for coffee and mince pies the last session before Christmas, it will be interesting to see if any dynamics change and what conversations come out of that time. We want to do it so that parents feel a part of the group, rather than them being on the outside.

Another part we have developed is POD groups, rather than doing a main talk the break down into smaller groups with adults and discuss areas and pray if they want. This seems to be working brilliantly and we hope to establish this more as the weeks go on.

The most important part is that everyone seems to be having fun, thinking more about God and faith, both those from Church backgrounds and those not. Adults are learning from the young people and visa versa.