Penny Bridge School

This afternoon we visited Penny Bridge school for the first time in 2014.  We decided to follow the theme idea given to us by another school, so the assembly was on Joseph the Dreamer.  After Sarah and said hello and Happy New Year and things we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger.  I had dressed in a tee shirt and a shirt for the assembly and after the song decided to take off the shirt and swap it for a different one asking the children if they liked the new one, then I changed again and in the end opted for a colourful waist coat.  This was only an intro into the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis.  I told the children that I was going to be Joseph and told 'my story' the coat, about the other brothers, the corn bowing down as well as the sun, moon and all the stars.  Until finally the capture by the brothers and the selling in to Slavery in Egypt and the story they told to Jacob 'my dad'.  Sarah then drew some parts of the story out and asked what the brothers were - jealous, angry, spiteful are the kinds of words that came out from the children.  Sarah linked this with what can happen after Christmas when people share about what they got and - yes jealousy can come out when we see that what other people have is better than what we have.  But Sarah said this can lead us into trouble like it did with the brothers.  She encouraged the children not to feel that way as we are all special to God.  This led into us singing Touch a finger which talks about us being special to God.  I then closed the assembly with a prayer.