Low Furness School

Today we used a Bob Hartman story from his 'Telling the Bible over 100 Stories to read out loud'.  It tells the story of Peter walking on the water but each line is repeated 3 times and each time you can use a different voice or express it in a different way.  It is a technique that we saw Bob use at Spring Harvest at Easter - in fact Sarah and I went to a workshop and Bob told this story.  The children were shown a set of words that all rhyme and they had to guess to see if they knew which story we were telling before we started.  Then as I read the story I paused at the end of each line to allow the children to respond with one of the words - the words were; BOO, PHEW, CANOE, YOU,TWO, SHOE, OH POO WOO HOO IT'S TRUE So for example I read 'That ghost looks like Jesus,' said Peter to his friends. (repeated 3 times) then I say - And all his friends were relieved - ..... the children should respond with PHEW!  Then at the end I talked to the children about Jesus and how he had called him as a fisherman (story told yesterday in school) and the walking on the water was in a way part of his training to put his trust and faith in Jesus, and as long as he kept his eye on Jesus he was on the water but as soon as he got worried he was in the water.  I then tried to encourage the children to put their trust and faith in Jesus.  We sang Giants of Faith to start this morning and at the end the children asked for it again.  Sarah then closed the assembly with a prayer.