Pennington School

This afternoon Sarah and I went along to see the children at Pennington School.  We decided to do the assembly on Going for Goals.  Sarah started the assembly by introducing the first song So Many Ways to Praise the Lord then she went on to display 4 sets of letters telling the children that they were the initials of famous sports people.  The children very quickly got them then displaying the letters RtB and StP asked if the children knew these people also - they are historical people.  I then went on to tell a very quick version of Robert the Bruce RtB story about his encounter with the spider.  Then I told the StP story - Paul and how he faced all kinds of different hardships during his lifetime telling people about Jesus.  I then referred back to the sports people and encouraged the children to work towards something in life like the sports people have done and not given up when things get bad like Robert nearly did but go on as Paul did despite the beatings and imprisonment he suffered.  Sarah also encourage the children in this too and then linked in our final song Wonderful Lord with God looking after us and protecting us as we go through life.