St Peters School

This morning Sarah and I went along to St Peters School for the assembly.  We started by singing God's Love is Bigger than a Burger then Sarah told the children a story about her cat Millie.  Sarah explained that when she got Millie she lived alone in a flat and the cat was good company for her, she would sit on Sarah's knee.  However one day the cat was on her knee then got down did a massive poo on the new carpet and then climbed back onto Sarah's need for comfort - Sarah as you could imagine wasn't happy.  She told the children this story and there was much laughter as you can guess at the very mention of poo - but Sarah explained that we are a bit like that (not doing a poo on the carpet) in that we do something wrong and turn back to God.  She talked about the prodigal son story that Jesus told and about how he wasted all the money then went back to his father.  Who opened his arms to him, at this point she got the children to stand up and put their arms out wide, then asked them to join up in rows, she explained that God's love is so much bigger and wider than that.  His love is so big that he allowed Jesus to come into the world to die for us.  She displayed John 3:16 on the screen and explained it to the children before introducing our next song Inright Outright.  After the song I closed the assembly with a prayer.