Early CHRISTIANS WOULD draw a fish symbol on the ground as a secret code to help them recognise other christians so they would know when it was safe to talk about their faith

Early CHRISTIANS WOULD draw a fish symbol on the ground as a secret code to help them recognise other christians so they would know when it was safe to talk about their faith

Why FISH?

The fish is an ancient Christian symbol going back to the early church. 

Legend has it that when followers of Jesus started to meet together they were too afraid of being arrested to meet in public so when they met another person who asked them about Christianity, to test out whether they were genuine, they would draw the top half of a fish in the dust on the road and if the stranger responded by drawing the other half of the fish the conversation would continue. If the stranger did not recognise the fish symbol, the follower of Jesus would hurry away.

It all ties in with Jesus asking his friends to become 'fishers of men'.

In our young people's FISH group, we meet on the 4th Sunday of each month, and we have an All Age Service specially designed to include everyone worshipping together on the 1st Sunday. It’s fun!

We have made two films, one called 'Who is My Neighbour?' and for the second we became detectives for a film called 'Who do you say I am?' as well as the advert below to let you know about what our group is like - we hope you feel happy when you watch it!

We currently meet on the 4th Sunday of each month and have an All Age Service on the 1st Sunday of each month. On the other weeks there are no specific activities for us but we are very welcome members of the main Sunday service. This church really doesn’t mind small children making noises or big children joining in the discussion - we all worship together (and sometimes the adults make too much noise and disturb us children - so they can’t complain if we disturb them!).

Come and see us - you would be very welcome.

You are really welcome just to come along on Sunday morning at 10am, but if you would like more information, click here to contact us. Parents are welcome to join the FISH Whatsapp group to find out what is coming up and contact each other - just ask in church. We will ask you to complete a registration form if you intend to leave your child unsupervised in FISH, so that we know of any special access, dietary or learning requirements and have emergency contact details etc. All FISH leaders are DBS checked and follow best practice Safeguarding policies.