Holiday Club 2025 | How to join the team
Adult Team applications will be opening in the spring. We are also looking for people to join the Core Team who create, plan and organise Holiday Club into being. If you are interested in either of these volunteer positions, please request a role description.
Applications for the Junior Team(12-17 year olds) will open around Easter time. We're also looking for Junior Team to join the Core Team to give creative and practical input into Holiday Club.
Holiday Club 2025 details TBC
Dates:
- Monday 21 July - Friday 25 July (3, 4 or 5 days tbc)
- 10am-12.30pm each day
Please contact tim@standrewshiston.org to find out more.
Holiday Club 2024 | A Narnia Adventure!
A Narnia Adventure | Copyright Hannah Adam, Tim Blake, Mike Cole
Tim and Rachel as Ivan and Clara in Factory Rock 2021
Holiday Club 2025 details TBC
Dates:
- Monday 21 July - Friday 25 July (3, 4 or 5 days tbc)
- 10am-12.30pm each day we run
What is it? Holiday Club is an annual adventure full of Bible stories, songs, drama, messy challenges, quizzes, games, craft, prayers and quieter times too! It is run by Churches Together in Histon and Impington.
Timing: Registration begins at 9.50am and we finish at 12:30pm.
Where does it happen? Histon Baptist Church
Who can come? Children who are currently in school years Reception up to Year 6. We hope to cater for children with most special needs. Please pre-arrange this with us by writing any needs on the Registration Form
How can I sign my children up?
The registration form will appear here after Easter
Do I have to pay? Holiday Club is sponsored by Churches Together in Histon and Impington. We welcome donations to help with our running costs: whatever you think you can afford. A suggested donation would be £15-20 per first child, then £10 for other children in the same family. We will have a card reader available at Registration during the week. We can accept cheques payable to Churches Together or cash. There is also the option of bank transfer to:
What do I bring? Children should bring a hat in hot weather and wear sun-cream etc. Bring a bottle of drink.
Refreshments: We will provide drink top-ups and a biscuit mid-morning and we finish in time for the children to go home for lunch.
Clothing: no special clothes are required, but please bear in mind that activities involve being active and making stuff.
Health: First Aid trained staff will be on hand to attend to first-aid needs. If your child needs to take any medication during the sessions, we will require written permission for a qualified First Aider on site to administer this.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Tim Blake on 07905 321 901 tim@standrewshiston.org
We look forward to welcoming you to Holiday Club in 2024!
Last summer…Holiday Club Escaped to Narnia!
This year, Holiday Club escaped through the wardrobe and into a Narnia Adventure! The children entered through a large wardrobe built into the entrance of the church and then into a pine forest covered with snow that was our very own Narnia! There they met Mr and Mrs Beaver who retold the story of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe over the course of the three days. We enjoyed singing our very own home-composed song ‘A Narnia Adventure’, the children entered into messy challenges and got creative and active while solving problems as teams. This included ‘rescuing’ the children from blocks of ice and making their way across the frozen river that was melting!
On the Wednesday we held the inaugural Narnia Olympics at Cair Paravel (The old school field) where the children took part in 12 different games/activities/challenges including Susan’s archery school, dodgeball and splat the rat!
As we came back together each day at noon, we shared God’s big story of love for his people told over the three days. We began with God’s beautiful world being ruined by people fighting and taking God’s crown for themselves, thinking they knew best. We heard how Judas betrayed Jesus (as Edmund betrayed his siblings, Aslan and all of Narnia) and how Jesus friends all ran away from him. Day two brought the saddest of events as we saw Aslan and Jesus both die in the place of those who had taken their crown and betrayed their love and friendship. Finally, on the Thursday we entered into the joy of Aslan and Jesus being brought back to life by the power of God, restoring broken friendships, bringing new life and defeating the powers of evil and death forever!
As always, the children were an absolute delight and entered into all we did with joy and creativity themselves. Look out for more Narnia Adventures throughout this year at the Churches Together Holiday Club team run more events at Halloween, Christmas and Easter.
