Lindale School

This morning Sarah and I went down to Lindale School to take the assembly.  It was great to see all the staff and children again following the summer break.  To start with we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger and then Sarah told one of Aesop's stories about parts of the body not working together. The hands, feet, eyes, mouth etc grew tired of feeding the stomach so they decided to stop.  They had thought the stomach to be lazy while they did all the hard work.  Then they suddenly started to realise that they couldn't do what they did before until finally the stomach spoke up telling them that they all need to work together and that they needed him just as much as he needed them.  They then and have ever since worked together.  Sarah then talked to the children asking them if they came to school and there was no teachers then how would they learn and if the teaches had no one to teach what would they do?  She explained that like the parts of the body we all need each other.  I continued by displaying the verse from John 15:12 Jesus is speaking to the people and says Love one another as I have love you.  I then asked if the children liked jigsaw puzzles and loads of hands went up, I displayed a few pieces of a jigsaw and said that each piece is different in some way but each one is needed to make the picture work I reminded them of the verse and said that in school we should try to do as Jesus said.  I gave them a few ideas as to how they could show love to each other, helping to open a door, picking up things from the floor, looking out for the little ones in the school etc.  I concluded by saying when we do that we Shine from the inside out - cue for a song.  After the song Sarah closed with a prayer.