Croftlands Juniors

Following the assembly at the infant school we walked across the car park to the junior school and did the assembly there too.  As the year 5 and 6 had gone off swimming we only had years 3 and 4.  To start off the assembly we sang So Many Ways to Praise the Lord then we displayed the optical illusions, which the children loved as the discussed if they could see something or not and what they could and couldn't see.  This was a way into the story of Samuel looking for a new king.  Samuel had been told by God to go down to Bethlehem and to Jesse's family and one of his sons was going to be king, as 7 of the sons came to Samuel he could see them as being good strong kings however not one of them was right and God reminded Samuel that man looks on the outside and he looks on the inside, into mans heart.  Finally David a young boy came in and God told Samuel that he was the one as he trusted God, loved God and followed him.  Sarah explained what the story could mean to us today and that it doesn't matter what we are like on the outside because it is what is inside us that matters and we should Shine out.  Which was a cue for a second song Shine.  After the song Sarah closed the assembly with a prayer.