St Laurence Church, REACH Team & REACH Caversham

Place of worship – last updated: 13 August 2009

Primary interest: Religion & Faith
Activity: Worship
Primary beneficiaries: --
Area of activity: Central Reading

Telephone: 0118 9571293
Email: admin@saintlaurencereading.co.uk
Web site: www.saintlaurencereading.co.uk

As a parish Christian church community (Church of England) we seek to serve and meet the needs of young people in Reading. Our vision is "Living to see young people come to faith and create new forms of church with them". This means we spend a lot of our time in schools, running after school clubs and youth clubs, taking young people away on weekends and enabling them to participate in activities during the school holidays.
We also seek to see young people come to a place of personal faith within the context of the local church. In all we do as a worshipping community we want to serve the needs of, and build relationships with, young people. This means that not only do we have Sunday services where adults and young people come together to worship God, we also undertake a variety of activities during the week seeking to challenge young people and adults alike to more of God's kingdom in Reading and UK wide.
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Faith:ChurchofEngland

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Services

NOISE

Email: westy@saintlaurencereading.co.uk

Wheelchair accessible Address as above

NOISE social action projects in school holidays. Week long social action projects in the summer holidays followed by short term projects and one day projects in other school holidays. The projects range from painting teenage parents houses, working in RBC parks, painting at CIRDIC homeless drop-in centre, gardening projects, cleaning graffiti, litter picking and mural projects.

REACH Caversham

Email: westy@saintlaurencereading.co.uk

Wheelchair accessible Address as above

Weekly Wednesday night youth clubs at the Caversham Methodist Church from 5.30pm-9.30pm. Weekly lunchtime club and After School Club at Highdown School from 1.15pm-2.00pm, and 3.05pm-4.05pm respectively. These weekly activities include open access youth provision which allows young people from the Caversham area of Reading to participate in a variety of activities, sports and arts.

REACH Team

Email: westy@saintlaurencereading.co.uk

Wheelchair accessible Address as above

Weekly Monday night Youth Club at the Church from 6.30-8.00pm. Weekly After School Club at the Church from 3.30pm-4.30pm. Weekly Breakfast Club at Blessed Hugh Faringdon for referred Year 11's. Weekly CU type activity for Bulmershe School Pupils from 1.20pm-1.50pm. These weekly activities include open access youth provision which allow young people from several areas of Reading to participate in a variety of activities, sports and arts.

St Laurence Church

Email: westy@saintlaurencereading.co.uk

Wheelchair accessible Address as above

Weekly Sunday services held at St Laurence Church building. Service 1, which meets at 3.30pm-5.00pm, seeks to serve the needs of the church adults and those wishing to worship in a slightly more formal context than service 2. Refreshments are then served from 5.00pm-6.00pm. Service 2, which meets at 6.00pm-7.30pm, seeks to serve the needs of the young people we find ourselves in relationship, dialogue and discipleship with.

People

Primary contact Mr Chris West - Youth Worker Director
To have oversight and give direction to all the church's work with and for young people.

Mr Chris Russell - Vicar
To oversee the whole working side and spiritual life of the church community.

Relationships

St Laurence Church, REACH Team & REACH Caversham is a member of Reading Faith Forum
St Laurence Church, REACH Team & REACH Caversham is a representative on Forum Voices

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