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Church Children keep Adults to Task
Children at General Assembly of the UNited Reformed Church at Heriot-Watt University 11-14 July 2008
Posted on Jul 3, 2008
Date Monday 30th June 2008
Release Immediate
When adults bend their minds to weighty issues at the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church in Edinburgh (July 11-14), they’ll have the help of children to keep them to task.
After a successful trial last year, a Children’s Assembly will run alongside the main meeting. Young people aged from nine to thirteen will discuss some of the same issues and the adults will take account of what they say. The United Reformed Church is the only church to consider children’s views in this way, so far as is known.
Jo Williams, children’s worker in charge of the venture, said ‘We believe children are full partners with adults in the life of the Church. And that means taking their views seriously. Children aren’t the Church of tomorrow; they are the Church of today’.
More than fifty children from across Britain will attend. They will talk about what prevents people coming to Church, including disability, and they will have the opportunity to learn sign language. They will also have a debate on the purpose of Church, and tell the adults what they think. That will be followed by the launch of a survey, being conducted jointly with the Children’s Society, in which up to 15,000 children across the United Reformed Church will be asked what they would change to make Church better.
Children join the adults for a ceilidh on Saturday evening, will have fun and games, and will also visit some of the sites in Edinburgh.
More information from Jo Williams, Children’s Work Development Officer tel. 020 7916 8683 or 07977 142450 or jo.williams@urc.org.uk . By prior arrangement, it may be possible to attend one of the sessions and talk to some of the children.
The United Reformed Church
Through a series of unions over the past 35 years, the United Reformed Church has brought together English Presbyterians, English, Welsh and Scottish Congregationalists and members of the Churches of Christ. One hundred thousand people make up 1600 congregations, with more than 700 ministers, paid and unpaid.
Although one of the smaller mainstream denominations in Britain, the United Reformed Church plays a dynamic and challenging part in the country’s Christian life. It seeks to work with Christians of all traditions, believing that all God’s people should be one. It is committed to theological and cultural diversity.
Worldwide, more than 70 million Christians are members of the Reformed family of churches, the largest Protestant tradition. We call ourselves Reformed because our churches began to emerge with reform movements in the sixteenth century.
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