Icebreakers

Some ice-breakers are ships, some are phrases or games or ways of making people relax. Here at Bethel we have our own ‘Ice-Breakers’ who are a group of 12-16 year olds (plus a couple of ‘oldies’) who meet each Sunday morning in the new rooms while the ‘preachy part’ is taking place in the chapel.

We meet in our own room which becomes our ‘space’ for about an hour each week and we use the time to chat about life, share news and info, catch up with friends who we haven’t seen for a few day and generally just have a good ‘get together’. Every week, once we’ve downloaded anything that we want to talk about or chatted about something that we think is great or concerns us, we take a subject and try to look at it from the viewpoint of being a Christian. The stuff we talk through and the subjects we cover are so wide ranging that its difficult to put them all into one ‘box’ but the sessions are always lively, often controversial and regularly go off into areas that we didn’t think about at the start.

Every year we go to Greenbelt, which is a Christian festival for all ages. We also go to our Pastor’s house and take part in Alpha discussions and generally have a good time. We go on walks to lots of places including Clent Hills, Waseley, Malvern, etc.

Ice-Breakers is never pressurised or forced on people but is hopefully a place where young people can feel safe and valued and learn a little bit more about being alive and being a Christian in the 21^st Century.