Lindale School

This morning Sarah and I travelled down to Lindale School for the assembly.  It was lovely to see all the children again as it seems likes ages since our last visit.  They still had an Easter display out which was great for us as our assembly was about what happened after Easter.  Sarah started by asking if the children had enjoyed the holidays and enjoyed Easter weekend asking how many of them had chocolate for breakfast on Easter Sunday.  As a reminder of Easter we sang Inright Outright - I then quickly did a recap of the events using the items on display in the school, the bowl to wash the feet, the bread and wine, the money purse of Judas, the cross and finally the words He is Risen.  Continuing the story of the events of the morning when the tomb was found to be open and Jesus' body not there I moved on to the afternoon and the two followers on the road to Emmaus.  As they went home Jesus joined them but they didn't realise it was him.  To demonstrate this I had three blurry images of celebs and the children had to guess who they were.  On with the story - as they moved along the road feeling sad Jesus asked why they were sad so they explained about what had happened - Jesus spoke saying wasn't that all meant to be then using scripture explained it all to them - they still didn't see who it was.  When they got to the house Jesus was going to continue on but as it was late they asked him to stay and eat and it was only when Jesus broke the bread did they see who he was.  The two followers hot footed it back to Jerusalem to tell the disciples they had seen Jesus.  I drew out the idea that they saw Jesus by what he did - in this case break the bread and asked how do people see Jesus in us, what can we do to show Jesus.  Sarah then encouraged the children to suggest ways they could be like Jesus so we had showing kindness, loving, helping people etc.  his linked in to singing Shine.  After the song Sarah related a story about someone who had been having a tough time with someone and they did something for that person which firstly took courage (which is the schools Christian value for this half term) but also shone out Jesus's love to that person.  She then finished with a prayer.