Messy Church is for people of all ages and great for families. We meet once a month, usually on a Thursday from 4-6pm.
We have a different Bible story as our theme each month and explore it with lots of creativity often including paint and glue, science, colouring for grown ups, outdoor fun, edible crafts, reflective spaces, bubbles, playdough, junk modelling, and growing things.
Everyone gets to join in. We have a short celebration time lasting about 15 minutes where we think about the story, sing and say a prayer and then we all have a meal together before we go home.
If you can't come every time, that's ok - we'll always be pleased to see you and if some of your family want to come just for the meal, that's fine too.
Messy Church is a great place to get to know other families.
If you don't believe in God or aren't sure what you believe, that's ok! You are very welcome!
We don't charge anything for Messy Church so we always welcome donations and cakes!
From September 2026 Messy Church will move back to a start time of 4pm ending by 5:30pm on the 3rd Thursday of the month wherever possible. This school year we will be looking at different characters from the Old Testament.
The dates and themes for these 2026 sessions are therefore:
- 17th September - Noah and the flood
- 15th October - Joseph
- 19th November - Moses (baby in the basket)
- 10th December - Christmas (Christingle) as well as the Priory Christingle service.
- 21st January - Joshua
- 11th February - Ruth
- 18th March - Easter
- 15th April - Esther
- May - Daniel (TBC)
- June - Abigail (TBC)
- 15th July - David & Jonathan
As you may know, the Priory is hosting the full "Threads through the Bible" exhibition by textile artist Jackie Parkinson for May and June. This means we are currently looking at hosting Messy Church elsewhere during those months; we hope to fill you in soon.
To find out further dates for Messy Church at Leominster Priory please contact either Ed at Ed.ceney@hereford.anglican.org or Beckie at Rebecca.Dotson@hereford.anglican.org