Pennington School

This afternoon I was at Pennington School for the assembly.  As it was the first visit of the new school year I asked the children a number of questions that related to new things.  This led into me telling the story of Zacchaeus who having met Jesus decided to make a new start.  I pointed out that Zacchaeus had been a liar, a thief and a cheat and did take too much money of the people in tax's but once he had met Jesus he said sorry and made a new start.  I had earlier asked if the children had got new exercise books so I used the idea of turning over the page onto a new clean sheet to help illustrate the point.  Then we sang So Many Ways to Praise the Lord before I said a prayer to finish.