{"id":73,"date":"2013-09-18T15:48:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:38:27","slug":"children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/?page_id=73","title":{"rendered":"Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of God is made up of people of all ages and no Church is complete without children. Every child is welcome at St James\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>We have a dedicated area in the South aisle, with soft mats, books and toys that families with young children are welcome to come and explore whenever the church is open, and particularly during our Stay and Play on Mondays 9.30 to 11am.<\/p>\n<p>At every 10am Sunday mass there is an activity that is linked to the readings of the day that is led by our volunteer children&#8217;s helper. \u00a0Children of all ages are also always welcome to serve at the 10am mass &#8211; just let Mthr Helen know if you&#8217;d like to take part in the mass in that way.<\/p>\n<p>We have also started Saturday craft mornings, and messy church events throughout the year &#8211; do look on the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/?page_id=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calendar<\/a><\/span> for our next event, or click <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/88a111ab.sibforms.com\/serve\/MUIFAFCZLv1Wa_sj_lMJkcEZIZA4DGJVvsX-6jE0uh45VXUt9e5dqOmqFafmtw_2PJAo8fXgl0HIUiSsU-_N87VfLgGaVnq9v-NWHB951hIhNJY1-6AmoY4mKuSW1blkStbHnTtGGprSDYmGuF7r4USoDj5-uLLWN9hw6FiW1X2_2GuuN8UCVGyuFT9J5D3h8vR_l0ceDb75gzhy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span> to be kept up to date with our weekly newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4014 \" src=\"http:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/17Web72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/17Web72.jpg 2919w, https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/17Web72-270x150.jpg 270w, https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/17Web72-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/17Web72-1024x568.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of God is made up of people of all ages and no Church is complete without children. Every child is welcome at St James\u2019. We have a dedicated area in the South aisle, with soft mats, books and toys that families with young children are welcome to come and explore whenever the church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"learning-children.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/9009"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjamesislington.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}