Family Church at Four

Since 2019 Sam and a small team have been working with people in their 20s - 40s and their children in Coulby Newham, Easterside, Marton and beyond to start a New Worshipping Congregation.

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The Story So Far

We delivered ‘Church in a Bag’ to families around Coulby Newham throughout 2020 and early 2021 after Covid postponed our launch. Each week’s bag was based on a bible story, with games, craft materials and suggestions for prayer and reflection activities. In March 2021 Church in a Bag became Church in a Building. After meeting in person for over 3 years it was time for a new name. In September 2024 we became Family Church at Four.

Family Church at Four

Join us on Sunday afternoons for Family Church at Four. We meet at St Cuthbert’s Marton Parish Centre at 4pm. The services are informal and interactive and are aimed at families.

Each week is based on a story from the bible. We have a craft, an active game, and lots more fun. Scroll through the photos below or have a look at our Facebook or Instagram to see what we’ve been up to recently. You’d be really welcome to come and visit us, we’d love to meet you in person!

Click here to read about our recent Adult Baptisms.

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Mini Meet-up

Join us for our toddler group in Coulby Newham every Monday morning. We enjoy the toys and slide, with plenty of hot drinks for the adults. After snack time for the kids, we have song time, and finish with a short bible story and prayer time.

Where: The Beacon Centre, Langdon Square, Coulby Newham, TS8 0TF

When: Mondays (term-time), 9.30-11am

Coming Up

Here are the events we’ve got coming up. You can also see the church calendar here.

Tell More More

If you’d like to know more about Family Church at Four, and the events and service we run you can sign-up for email updates here.

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Sunday Catch-up - 15th Sept We kicked off our What Following Jesus Means to Us series by hearing from Elli who told us what attracted her to Following Jesus, and the difference it has made to her life. We made compasses to remind us that Jesus us can
At one of our services over the summer we spent time thinking about and praying for one of the groups we support financially as a congregation; @the_bayfords and the work they do with @reaviva_brasil in Brazil. As part of that we drew pictures and w
Did you Try Praying last week? How did it go? Let us know in the comments. 🙏👇
Ok so we didn’t get the best photos(!), but we had lots of fun at our first ever Youth Session last month. We played daft games, thought about how we can know God loves us, read the bible together, and prayed for the world using post-it-notes
This week we’re having a go at praying using the booklets from @trypraying. Are you joining us? #prayer #trypraying
Our series at the moment on Sundays afternoons is What Following Jesus Means to Us. So far Elli, Jeni, Rob and Jenny have all told us something of their own stories of coming to faith in Jesus and the difference it makes in their lives. We’ve l
Every Monday in term time we run our Mini Meet-Up toddler group 9:30-11am in The Beacon (behind Langdon Square). We have free play time with hot drinks for the adults, then snack time for the kids. We finish with song time, a bible story and our Mi

Give to support Church in a Building

If you’d like to support our work with families in Coulby Newham (and beyond!) you can give online here. We’re very grateful for all the support we receive.

Multiply

Church in a Building is part of Multiply, a network of people working across the region to start new Christian communities for families and young adults. There are 14 full-time Pioneer Ministers, and a growing team of part-time ministers, working to share the hope and love of Jesus with more people. Other local sites include Brambles Farm, North Ormesby and Ingleby Barwick.

Multiply is a project of the Diocese of York.

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