Low Furness School

This morning Sarah and I went to Low Furness School for the assembly.  Our theme was miracles, so after singing an old favourite Great Big God I used a Bob Hartman story to recall Jesus calming the storm as it is in John 6:16-21.  The way the story is told is by repeating a line three times, each time slightly differently, then the children respond with an action on certain key words.  Following the story and much laughter from the children I explained that in the story there are in fact two miracles the first is Jesus walking on the water to meet the disciples and the second is the storm is calmed when Jesus gets into the boat.  I then said that sometimes in life we go through ups and downs and people call this the storms of life but if we have Jesus with us then he helps us through them and calms the storm down.  Sarah also reinforced this point with the children as I got ready the next song which simply had to be God can do Anything.  Sarah closed with a prayer.