OVER the next few weeks, hundreds of young people across the country will be preparing for change.
Some will be leaving secondary education, college or primary school and some will be preparing to start their journey in education.
I have been working with Soulscape a local Christian charity, whose strapline is Creating Space to Explore Life. They work hard in schools to help and support young people to confront and address some of the challenges that they are facing today from friendships, relationships and the environment to enabling them to have the space to pause and reflect in a busy digital world.
I have been working with them on Mind the Gap, visiting year sixes in local schools supporting them with the huge transition from Primary to Secondary school, giving them the tools to be able to build new friendships as they meet new people and navigate life in a new school.
We then visit the secondary schools for the induction days at the end of June and again when they arrive on that nerve-wracking first days in September.
Many parents in Wokingham are grateful for the support that their children get during this period, but I wonder how many realise that Soulscape and indeed Mind the Gap are led by Christians in our community?
Our Churches are without doubt challenged by being able to welcome young people through our doors but we are meeting them through the hard work and Christian love of Soulscape and their volunteers around Wokingham God’s love and the holy sprit is truly working among them.
Please pray for their work and all people facing a time of transition at this time.
You can find out more about the work of Soulscape and the Mind the Gap project at soulscape.org.uk
Claire Knight is the church and community outreach team leader at Wokingham Methodist Church, writing on behalf of Chuches Together in Wokingham
