Our Lady's School

This morning Sarah and I did our last assembly of the school year at Our Lady's School in Dalton.  We did the drama about Jonah that we have been doing for the transition assemblies.  We enlisted a couple of children to play the parts of Jonah and the king/queen of Nineveh.  The children thought the repeating line about Nineveh was funny - each time Sarah mentioned Nineveh I would reply - Nineveh have you heard the stories about that place they're not good ones I can tell you - I did it in a west country accent while pretending to be a sea captain.  After the drama Sarah pulled a few points out from it and talked about people moving on like the children in the school will move up a year and year 6 leave to go to high school.  The link with Jonah is that he had heard about Nineveh and didn't like what he heard but was asked to go, and when he ran away God was with him, and when he was in the sea God was still there with him, God was even there when God was in the belly of the fish (God sent the fish after all)  We used a verse from Joshua 1:8 to encourage the children - Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid for God is with you wherever you go.  After this we sang Wonderful Lord as it talks about God looking over us and protecting us.  During the song I said a short prayer.