Gathering physically each week

Young people have told us that they’d rather be in a real room than a zoom one, so that’s how we’ve designed Central Cell Online to happen. It’s also a little foretaste of youth groups being able to gather together as one big community in the future.

National Youth Agency Guidelines tell us that as an essential service, youth groups are allowed to meet physically in socially distant bubbles of 15. You can read the full guidance here and we’ll be keeping an eye on it as things progress.

The brilliant thing about the local churches is that they have enough space for this to be totally possible. There won’t be any games of sardines any time soon, but we think it’ll be marvellous for young people to be able to gather together regularly in physical space to explore their faith together.

If you don’t want to gather physically…

Don’t worry. We know there are people and situations where this isn’t practical or comfortable, so the material we’re producing can be used in a zoom context. You’re welcome to do it this way, but we’d encourage you to consider meeting physically as a priority where possible.