Our Lady's School

This morning Sarah and I went to do the assembly at Our Lady's School and also pick up their shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child.  To start our assembly we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger which we did sing last time when we talked about shoe boxes with the children but today we wanted to tell the children just how much God loves them.  Sarah then told her cat story about Millie when she was just a kitten.  During a nice chilled out afternoon Sarah and Millie sat watching the television as Sarah stroked her she purred - as cat's do.  Suddenly Millie jumped down from Sarah's knee walked across the floor and did a massive poo on the new carpet, before walking back to Sarah jumping back onto her knee for more of the same chill time.  Well Sarah wasn't happy with Millie for the mess she had made, but then she thought it is a bit like us - we make a mess (we don't poo on the floor) and expect God to love us just the same as always - which he does.  His love is so big link to song that he loves us no matter what we do.  She then told the prodigal son story and mentioned how the son wasted all his fathers money and yet his father waited with arms open wide to receive his son back.  I then displayed John 3:16 and explained that God's love is so big that he sent Jesus to earth to save us, this linked with our next song Inright Outright.  After the song we closed the assembly with a short prayer.  I thanked the children for the 37 shoe boxes they had filled for us and explained that they were showing love to other people in doing what they had done.