Croftlands Juniors

This morning Sarah and I went to do our first assembly of the new school year to Croftlands Juniors.  We only had the year 5 and 6 children in as the years 3 and 4 had gone swimming.  We decided to do our harvest assembly so to start we sang So Many Ways to Praise the Lord.  We then displayed some clocks with different times on them and asked the children what time it was - now they all could all tell the time but the point was what time of day it was like get up, start school, have lunch, go home.  Sarah talked a little about time then we played the 1 minute game so when they thought 1 minute was up they stood up.  This linked to an apple with a seed in it so I asked what or who tells the seed when to grow, I displayed the cycle seed, small plant, tree, bud, flower, apple , seed etc and explained that God is the one who determined that the apple would produce seed way back in Genesis.  I displayed the following verses for the children to think about - Genesis 1:11Then God said, "Let the earth grow grass, plants that make grain, and fruit trees. The fruit trees will make fruit with seeds in it. And each plant will make its own kind of seed. Let these plants grow on the earth." And it happened. Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth continues, there will always be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night on earth."  Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 There is a right time for everything, and everything on earth will happen at the right time. There is a time to be born and a time to die. There is a time to plant and a time to pull up plants. I went on to say that at this time of year we start to think about all the good things that God gives to us it is harvest time.  Sarah continued to emphasis this point and said that God provides so much for us and is a great big God that holds us in his hands - cue song.  After the song I closed with a prayer.