Croftlands Junior School

This morning Sarah and I went to do our first assembly of the new school year at Croftlands Juniors.  It was great to see all the children again following the summer break as well as the new year 3 children who move up from the infants.  Sarah started the assembly by asking the children what they could see with their eyes - we had a number of suggestions including objects in the room to people to things outside like the wind.  We commented when we heard the people and the wind in the hopes that the children would give us a few more suggestions.  I then told the feeding the 5000 story because in the midst of the talking between Jesus and the disciples a small boy saw what the problem was and acted upon it by giving over his small lunch.  Jesus then blessed it and handed it to his disciples to hand out.  I used the word hands several times and Sarah used the word eyes several times.  The link - Help Me Be Your Eyes Lord Jesus which is what we were going to sing at the end.  We encouraged the children to look around and see what they could do to help other people not only in school but outside too.  After our song Sarah closed with a prayer.