Lindal and Marton primary School

This morning Sarah and I did our first assembly of the New Year at Lindal and Marton School.  It was good to see all the children again after such a long time.  To start we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger, and Sarah asked them to look out for a word in it that was the theme for our assembly (the word wasn't burger by the way) - it was love of course.  After the song Sarah introduced the assembly theme by telling the children that there are loads of stories in the Bible and some of them are about love.  I continued by saying the love isn't the kissy, kissy stuff but love that people had for each other or individuals or the love God shows us or we show him.  So to start off I displayed a picture of Moses and talked a bit about him before displaying pictures of David, Ruth, Esther and finally several about Jesus.  To conclude I displayed the words of John 15:12 Love one another as I have loved you.  Sarah then expanded on this and explained what it means and then asked how we might show love to others - the children responded very well and gave a number of really good suggestions.  To finish off we sang Shine before Sarah said a short prayer.