| Date | What? | Where? | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 7 May | All Mettle Groups | T3 OSR | 7.30pm-9.30pm |
| Fri-Sun 9-11 May | Mettle 102 Weekend | Meet OSR | Meet 5.30pm |
| Sun 11 April | Mettle Sunday | T4/5 OSR | 8.00pm-9.00pm |
The programmes for Terms 5 and 6 are now available to download. To get the one you need, simply click on the name of your Mettle Group below and follow the on-screen instructions.
Mettle Group 17 - Mettle Group 20 - Mettle Group 102
As you may know, we are now offering confirmation as an option to anyone in Mettle, and St Michael's Church is holiding a special Confirmation and Baptism Service on Monday 30 June. There is also another option if you can't make that date. All the details are available on a letter that you can download below.
Download a Confirmation and Baptism letter
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE ... WE ARE NOW IN T3 (WHERE THE PRE-SCHOOL USED TO BE! SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION!
All three Mettle Groups will be meeting together this Wednesday for an Ask The Panel night. This is your chance to ask ANYTHING that's been on your mind about life, God, or whatever. The panel will be made up of Ant Miles, Alex Clare and Karen Jones, with Trevor Rawlinson as our host and questionmaster. Please make every effort to attend and take the chance to ask your questions. If you want to ask a question anonymously, please email it to admin@stmikesyouth.org, or write it down and put it in the questions box on the night. We promise we won't say where they came from!
There's also some big news about the future of Mettle, which we'll be announcing on Wednesday, so be there!
The long-awaited second attempt at the Mettle Group 102 Weekend Away is THIS WEEKEND! We'll be taking an in-depth look at Ant's favourite Old Testament character, Elijah, and doing loads and loads more. Details are available to download below.
Download an final details letter, an itinerary and kit list, and Consent & Medical Form.
Mettle Sunday meets as usual this Sunday (despite the Mettle Group 102 Weekend Away!) for prayer, worship and toast! We'll be thinking about "bread" ... all will be revealed!
The remaining socials this year will be our annual football challenge against the St Michael's men's team on Friday 23 May and the end of year Big Day Out on Saturday 26 July. Check back here for more details soon!
There will be Youth Services on Sunday 18 May and Sunday 20 July. Please keep the dates free ... we'd love to see you there and you'll probably be asked to be involved!
The dictionary defines ‘Mettle’ as ‘Courage, spirit, character - the quality of a person's disposition or temperament’. When we talk about being ‘on one's mettle’, we are encouraging each other to ‘do our very best’ in all things.
Mettle is not a ‘quick fix’ course on Christianity. It's more of an ongoing programme, designed to build Courage, Spirit and Character - essential Christ-like qualities that will help you make informed choices throughout this rapidly changing and challenging time of your life.
We meet in three small Mettle Groups which are held in leaders' homes on either a Monday or a Wednesday evening, between 7.30pm-9.30pm. At these groups we chat, have fun, and look at what it means to be a Christian in today's world. These groups meet every week in term-time (apart from the week after a Youth Service).
We also meet altogether for Mettle Sunday, after the Sunday evening service at St Michael's. This is usually a fairly chilled-out time, and provides an opportunity to respond to God in worship and prayer. This runs between 8.00pm-9.00pm. Once a month, we go to The Mix at Woodlands Church in Bristol, and once a term we do our own Youth Service at St Michael's.
The final ingredient of Mettle is our Socials. These are held at the start and end of each term on a Friday evening, along with the RE:fresh crowd, and we have already been ice-skating, to a fireworks display, to LaserQuest and of course, enjoyed the annual Christmas banquet together, to name but a few. Anyone in the right age group can come to these socials, they're not just for people in the Mettle Groups.
If you're interested in joining Mettle or just finding out more, please email mettle@stmikesyouth.org.