Shape

SHAPE is for year 9+ and meets most Sundays from 7-9pm. Sessions are a mix of social and spiritual activities, discussions and films.

The Ritz Dinner, a fundraising dinner in aid of Orphaids in Ecuador, was organised and carried out by Shape on 26 April. It was a great success!

A member's view of Shape:

What is Shape? Basically, the whole of the older youth from Holy Trinity Church belong to Shape, here we join together to pray together, laugh together and seek a deeper and more meaningful relationship with God. We do this by meeting together every week on a Sunday evening at each others’ houses.

We also think about important qualities that Jesus had and that we must try to emulate. We symbolise this through ‘taking bullets’, in this, we have a stone symbolising one of the qualities, for example, love, peace, hope, trust or generosity. Then, using this stone we can keep a particular quality that we wish to exercise in our consciousness by keeping that stone in a pocket. This way, we are constantly thinking about that quality and our actions reflect that, hopefully.

Each individual in Shape is assigned an angel. This angel looks after the member and calls them up regularly or they meet up in a coffee shop to see how they are getting on, so we all look after each other. The Shape leaders hold a role of responsibility, so they hold the role of an archangel, which means they are angels to each member, not an easy job I can assure you! These special people are Anna, Thiago, Kat and Chris and it is thanks to them that Shape got started at all and they are still running it, and I’m glad that they are.

Shape is a great and fun way to get to know God better and I am very thankful for this opportunity.

Alastair Cotterell

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