Crosthwaite School

This afternoon we went over to Crosthwaite School to take the assembly.  We asked the children what song they would like  to sing and they picked Shine.  Following the song I told them the story of Jesus walking on the water and Peter stepping out of the boat to join him.  We all know what happen Peter stopped trusting in Jesus as he stood on the water and started to sink and Jesus held out a hand to him and helped him back into the boat.  The story was read from a Bob Hartman book of Bible stories and it repeats the same line three times and at the end of some of the lines the children need to shout out a response.  The children really got into the story as I was telling it.  I followed the story with a short word about trusting Jesus as Peter had done at first but then took his eye of Jesus and then sank - but Jesus helped him.  I told the children that we should try to put our trust in Jesus and when things get tough and we start to sink we should call out to Jesus (prayer) and he will help us through.  Sarah then made the link between trust and faith as we got ready to sing Giants of Faith.  In the end we sang it twice.  We ended the assembly with a prayer.