Penny Bridge School OCC assembly

This morning we went along to Penny Bridge School to do an Operation Christmas Child Assembly.  After singing God's Love is Bigger than a Burger, Lisa talked and demonstrated how love can be shared by using some sunflower seeds.  The seed like love is small yet when it is planted great things happen and it produces a beautiful flower and more seeds to pass on.  It is a bit like that with the things we put into a shoe box,  those little things then are kept in the dark of the box and when they are opened at the receiving end by a child all that love bursts out like the sun flower flowering.  I then went on to explain what to do when filling a shoe box then what happens to it once it is collected, processed and then sent abroad to needy children.  I then showed photos and places names of children who got boxes last year.  Then told the children how many boxes got sent from the UK and how many from this area then said a big THANK YOU to all the children for their help last year.  Sarah ended the assembly with a prayer.