Croftlands Juniors

This morning Sarah and I went along to do the first assembly of the new school year at Croftlands Juniors.  So after singing Be Happy Sarah started to talk about how it is good to be happy but there are times when we don't feel happy and we feel sad.  It can be for any number of reasons like feeling lonely, scared, unsure of something - a bit like starting a new school or moving up a class etc.  She encouraged the children to look out for children in the school that might be feeling a bit strange, or look sad and a bit down and to be-friend them.  Sarah then linked it to the bible passage from Matthew 25:35ff that I then read in my own words, it talks about Jesus saying that he was hungry, thirsty, sick, without clothes etc and Jesus was asked by the crowd when did we see you like this and Jesus' reply was simple - whenever you do these things to others then you do it for me.  I concluded then by saying that when we do these sort of things we Shine from the inside out - this was a cue for the song.  After singing Shine Sarah said a short prayer.