The grounds of Selby North Children’s Centre were the unlikely venue for the Baptisms and Confirmation of young people from the Flaxley Road Estate on Easter Day. Perhaps even more unusual is that the Confirmation candidates’ regular place of worship is on a purple double decker bus.
The morning started with a shared breakfast inside the Children’s Centre and was followed by a service of Baptism with Confirmation and Communion.
St James’ Edge Community – the church on the estate, does not have a church building and so meets at the Children’s Centre on Sundays. On Wednesday a community bus owned by Youth Worker Emily Finch is used as a cafĂ© drop in during the day and young people come together for a meal and ‘youth cell church’ during the early evening. The bus later becomes a space for youth to drop in for a chat, games, craft and contemporary Christian music in the evening, this regularly attracting 30 to 40 young people from the Estate.