Children & Youth
We believe in the significance of our children and youth.
We want children and young people to be excited about spending time getting to know Jesus with their friends in a group that is designed for the age and stage that they are. All our groups have a drop-off time of 10.20 and run parallel to the main service in both our Balerno and Livingston sites.
Pre-School
A loving, nurturing environment for the youngest in our church family to learn about our big God.
The children are introduced to God and the Bible through storytelling, songs, and games.
We have a dedicated team who love being with your children, so that you can enjoy the main service and our check-in and out system means that we can always find you in the service if your child needs you.
Primary
P1-P7
In both locations our primary age children have their own groups that run for the full length of the adult service.
In Balerno this is organised into Adventurers (P1-3) and Xplorers (P4-7)
These groups will worship together, play together, pray together and learn together. Teaching will cover Old Testament, New Testament and ‘Christian living’. Every child is placed in a smaller group to help build relationship too.
Roughly once a month a Saturday is identified as a social Saturday and events ranging from baking or arts to innoflate or movie nights ensure that our children can spend time together and invite their friends to more than just Sunday mornings. A termly plan for these events is shared well in advance for those who like to mark things on their calendars!
In Livingston we have Livi Kids (P1-4) and then from P5 up the young people join the youth who split into age groups for discussion. Once a month in Livingston, P4-P7 join together while those of secondary age join the youth in Balerno and this makes the transition between groups very smooth. In both groups we seek to help the children and young people develop their own faith through teaching, chat and games.
We also run a residential weekend in September each year for P5-7 from both locations and their friends.
Contact Caitlin.boddy@stmungos.org for more information!
Youth
S1-S6
Most Sunday mornings the youth in Balerno meet together at 10.30am in the church building for their own event. They regularly serve the church on teams in the main service and during the week, and join the main service one Sunday a month - usually for communion.
On Sunday mornings in Livingston, the youth join everyone in the main 10.30am service (at St Margaret’s Academy) for worship, before moving into small groups to spend time together and grapple with issues of faith and life.
We have a big S1-S6 joint event every few weeks with young people from both sites. Worship is regularly led by our youth band and we have a talk, often from a youth leader, current youth or former youth, followed by prayer ministry – a chance for young people to encounter God in a safe place.
During term time we all meet together in Balerno on Friday nights to hang out, play games, kick footballs and loads of other one off special events through the year. This is open to everyone in S1-S6.
During the year we invite all our S1-S6 young people to come away on a long weekend for outdoor adventures, Bible teaching, worship, seminars and plenty of games and relationship building.
