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Organisations Index
Arts Society
Area Visitors
Bellringing
Bridge Club
Brownies
Beavers
Cubs & Scouts
Church Choir
Cumberland Morris Men
Explorers Group
Football Association
Freemasons
Friends of the Priory
Garden Society
Guides
Library
Local History
Mummers
Over 60's Club
Parish Council
Parochial Church Council
Playgroup
Prayer Group
Priory Fellowship
Priory Singers
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Sunday School
Toddler Group
Village in Bloom Committee
Village School Association
Village Hall Committee
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Priory Sunday School
St Bees Sunday School welcomes all children from ages 3 to 11 years, and older teenagers as helpers. We meet every Sunday morning in termtime 10.30 to 11.30 a.m. in New College Hall (the building near the Priory).
Three groups of young Christians meet - Infants, Primary and new Teens Group, and are supervised by staff members Rosalie McAndrew and Helen Taylor. The Biblical teaching is based on Scripture Union materials designed for different age groups, but following the same topics through the year. Groups join in other activities, such as art and craft work, prayers and poems, songs, playlets, and outdoor discovery in the summer.
Most children attend the last section of the church service to receive the Communion blessing.
Children are encouraged to share in Special Family Services and Church Festivals, e.g. Mothering Sunday, Harvest Festival, and Christmas. At Christmas, children perform the Nativity Play and share in the Christingle Service, with their families and friends.
The children's weekly collection helps us to support several charities - the Biblelands (sponsorship of the Boys Orphanage at Bethany through their CareSharer scheme); Care for the Wild International (adopting two tiger cubs Jasmine and Jasper in Cambodia); and the Bransby Home for Rescued Ponies (adopting two donkeys, Moab and Dylan, and Kizzy, a chestnut mare). Also the Christingle Funds go to the Children's Society.
Displays of the Sunday School work are seen in the Priory and in New College Hall.
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