Crosthwaite School

This afternoon Sarah and I went over to Crosthwaite School for our first visit of the new school year.  To start with we introduced them to a new song Help Me Be Your Eyes Lord Jesus.  We played the video with actions so the children could see them.  Sarah then taken about how we can use our eyes to look around and see where we might be able to help other people.  She linked it to the story of Jesus feeding the 5000.  I then used pictures to tell the story.  I repeated several times the word hands as this is mentioned in the song too.  The boy used his hands to carry the food, Jesus used his hands to lift the food up and pray, the disciples used their hands to give the food out.  Linking everything together Sarah and I said we should look around and see where help is needed and use our hands to provide that help if necessary.  We gave them a number of examples how they could do that.  The schools Christian value this term is friendship so Sarah linked what we had said to that too talking about how we can befriend people that are perhaps new to the school.  We then sang the song again but this time we displayed the words.  To finish Sarah said a short prayer.