Pennington Brownies

Thursday evening Sarah and I had been asked to go to the Brownies in Pennington to tell them a little about what we do and help them to get started on their faith badge.  As most of the children know us from the schools that we currently go into there was no real need to introduce ourselves.  I did say a little about the work we do such as school fun days, Bible Explorer, holiday clubs etc.  Then we sang a few songs.  We started with Giatnts of Faith as we were going to talk about faith anyway.  Plus one of the people in the song is Elijah and that was who our story was about.  Following a few more songs we showed the girls part of the Elijah story from the Lion Story Teller Bible and a power point slide show went with it.  For teh second part of the story I decided to invite a couple of girls out to help me.  I told the story while the girls did actions, the story had two magic tricks in it to emphasis part of the story when the jar of oil and the flour didn't run out.  The point was that Elijah had to put all is trust and faith in God to feef him, then Elijah and the widow needed to both put the trust and faith in God.  Following the stories we got the girls to make a craft which was a picture of a jar with the middle cut out and behind it we put a piece of yellow card and had it so that it could slide up and down.  This was to remind the girls that the jar of oil didn't run out.  The bible verse was also printed on the card to the girls could read the story for themselves if they wanted to.  After the craft time we played a few games.  The games time built up the girls towards the final game and for this I put out lots of objects and asked for a girl from each team who would be blindfolded and a second one who would guide the girl through the game and round the objects.  I then said to the rest of the girls that they needed to be quiet because the blindfolded girl needed to listen to instructions.  However they need to be quiet because we then moved all the objects leaving a clear space and pretended to go through the objects.  At the end the blindfolds came off and the girls looked back to see that they had simply walked a striaght clear line.  I then pointed out that the blindfolded girls needed to put their trust and faith in the person who guided them just as Elijah and the window had done with God.  We concluded the evening by singing a few more songs and a prayer.