St Peters School

This morning Sarah and I went over to St Peters in Ireleth.  Our theme for the assembly was Our Community.  So to start we sang Creator God, then I showed a series of pictures from Ulverston followed by some pictures of flooded areas of our country.  I also mentioned about the problems in the Ukraine as well as the focus of the Daybreak programme this week looking at Ethiopia and the problems there.  I asked the question that a lot of people ask - What can we do?  I also said that as children they might think they can't do anything to help out as they are only children.  I then showed some more pictures of Ulverston and the events that go on in the town explaining that the flooded towns are no different to our town.  I then read ... Again Jesus said, "What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade." from Mark 4:30-32.  I displayed some pictures of seeds and eventually a mustard seed on someone's finger.  Another picture showed the seed on the finger and then a huge tree.  The point was that we don't need to do a great big thing to make a difference but a small thing done in the right way and with God's help can turn into a humungous thing.  Sarah picked up on some ways we can do that - a simple smile can make someone's day, a short text might perk someone up.  Then in doing that we can shine from the inside out which was our next song.  Following the song Sarah said a prayer and we finished with the Lord's Prayer.