Croftlands Infants School

This morning Sarah and I were at Croftlands Infants School for the assembly.  As it was our first visit since Easter Sarah asked the children of they had had a good Easter holidays and if they had and chocolate left.  She mentioned this as the theme of the assembly was linked to Easter it was on Forgiveness.  So start off we sang Inright Outright which has the line which says - Jesus cares for me when He died on Calvary.  Sarah then used the story of the two little boys that we have been using for our assemblies this month.  The basic story is two boys fall out as a result of toys being broken.  However they do decide to make it up and become good friends again.  The boys did say to each other that they couldn't forgive each other.  Sarah asked if the children had ever been in a situation like that, she reminded the children that Jesus on the cross had asked God to forgive them for hurting him.  I then read a bible verse from Ephesians 4:32 which says 'we should learn to forgive'.  I also talked about Peter and how he said 3 times that he didn't know Jesus and then after Jesus had rose from the grave Jesus asked Peter 3 times if he loved him - this was like Jesus cancelling out what Peter had done.  I reminded the children of two lines in the Lord's Prayer which says forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.  To round off the assembly Sarah asked the children if they knew what forgiveness meant and a couple of children gave really good answers.  We then sang Shine and Sarah closed with a prayer.