Question: What do a giant dice, human snakes and ladders, a “chilled or worried?” quiz, live interviews with twelve year old “experts” and picture frames made with lolly sticks have in common?
Answer: all these (and more) are the different elements that for the last seven years have gone into making up “It’s Your Move”. Specially designed to help youngsters make the transition from primary to secondary school, this week’s “It’s Your Move” has once again seen more than three hundred children from nine local schools come through MBC’s doors. Underpinned by the firm promise that no matter how daunting the future looks God can and will help, this year’s three sessions were headed up by Jan Fennell, Heather McLeen and Dave Bartram. On the morning that I joined the team, three year seven pupils: Bethan, Aiden and Hal were also on hand to offer expert advice on how they themselves had coped with the move exactly a year ago. With many of the visiting schools also involved in MBC’s “What Matters?” community outreach project, the continued success of “It’s Your Move” reinforces the notion that the links between a church and the community it seeks to serve really do come in all shapes and sizes.