Broughton School OCC assembly

This morning Sarah and I travelled over to Broughton School to do an Operation Christmas Child Assembly.  We started by singing God's Love is Bigger than a Burger, then Sarah decided that she needed a mid morning snack so she started to peel a Satsuma.  She did offer to share it with someone though, so as she put the first piece into her mouth she gave the peel to her helper which made her look puzzled.  Sarah explained that she had shared part of the Satsuma with the helper, she asked if that was right - to share only the bit we didn't want - the answer was no of course.  Sarah then did share with the little girl and explained the point of it to the children.  We need to share good things with other people and not just the things we don't want or need anymore.  She asked if there was anyone in the room that had never ever been given a present - there was nobody.  As she continued she explained to the children that it is nice to get presents but there are children that never do get presents at all.  I then talked to the children about filling shoe boxes and how when we do fill the box what we are really doing is filling it with love.  I explained briefly what to do and what to put into a shoe box then followed this with the journey the box makes to get to a needy child.  I then showed pictures from all the areas that shoe boxes get sent to each year.  Sarah drew the assembly to a close by saying when we fill a box with love we Shine from the inside out which was a cue to our next song.  Sarah then closed with a prayer.