Low Furness School

It was our first visit to Low Furness today following the summer holidays.  We had been asked to do an assembly on The Lord's Prayer.  So we spent some time yesterday looking for assemblies based around The Lord's Prayer of which there are many.  Sarah found an assembly idea which explained each sentence of the prayer which looked good, she also found a crossword puzzle as well.  I had an idea that I would like to put the Lord's Prayer into everyday English for the children.  So I looked it up in the Street Bible and did find an everyday translation of it but parts of it would have still confused the children.  So I decided to use part of it and change some of the more difficult words to suit the children.  Our assembly started and the sun was bright as ever shinning on the projector screen, so much so the children couldn't see the words.  Sarah and I then did the Lord's Prayer between us, Sarah read the traditional words while I the new English/street version.  Following on from this we wanted to do the crossword but the children couldn't see it because of the sun, also when I produced it on my wide screen lap top it fitted on the screen, but the projector was not wide screen.  We could have stopped the assembly there sang a song said a prayer everyone out to play.  But while Sarah is selecting children to help with the crossword from each of the 4 house's I fixed the crossword and said to Sarah and the children what we could do with now is the sun to go in for a little while so we can do the crossword.  Just then the sun went in and it started to rain.  Now because we had messed about a bit with the picture we were running short on time but it was now going to be wet play so we had plenty of time.  We completed the crossword children who helped got house points, we recapped the words and ... the sun came back out again.  We finished with Wonderful Lord during which we said the Lord's Prayer.  At the end we said to the children how awesome it was that just at the right time the sun went in and that God had heard us and had the power to cover the sun for those few minutes.  The children then got sent out to play so winners all round Praise God for His Awesomeness.