Croftlands Community Church Fun Day

What a busy day!

That was yesterday. I think I have just about recovered now. We were really blessed by the hot sunshine which made this event so fantastic. Over 200 people attended the event throughout the afternoon, which is more that double the number that came last year so what will next year bring ... God Knows!! We thank the Lord for all that happened at church yesterday, the feedback we have recieved has been really good. The looks on peoples face's when they find out it is free says it all.

Bertie the Clown was there and he did two shows, the first had no gospel message however the second did as he talked about the love God has for us by sending His son to die for us. It was a great time because we that is Sarah and I have had so much contact with the schools on Croftlands, it gave the children the chance to tell their parents who we were.

I love the work we do I feel so honoured to be involved with children and in particular telling them about Jesus I couldn't think of a better job. So I pray that God will continue to work in us to spread God's word to children (and adults)

Croftlands Infant School

JOY JOY JOY!!

What a joy it is to be able to take an assembly at Croftlands Infant School. Today's assembly set me up for the day and possibly the week. To see and hear the children singing along to Our God is a Great Big God and later Wonderful Lord is just ... words fail me. It is one of those situations where Sarah and I go in to bless the children with a story or a song or a puppet sketch and come away feeling more bless than ever. We just love it ... and with God's help next year we will be able to do more, possibly in small groups what a privilege that would be. Tomorrow we will be taking the assembly over with the juniors.

Low Furness School

Today we went to Low Furness school, it has been a little while since we last went as the year 6 pupils have had SATS. Following on from the Pentecost service on Sunday and the fact that only a few children were there we did the postcard from Ben sketch again for them. We also sang 'Shine' our newly acquired song from Spring Harvest, along with a few old favourites like 'Our God is a Great Big God' and 'Inright Outright'. It is such a joy to see the children taking part in the singing and being asked to sing particular songs too.

What ever God has planned for me in September we are praying that it will be more of the same. There is no better job I could think of in the world than taking the gospel message to children.

Mark

Sunday Pentecost Service

In the words of Gary (our blue skined, pink haired, scouse puppet) WoooowwwWeeee!!!

God is Good!

We were invited at the last minute to take part in the Pentecost Service at Urswick Parish Church. This was a joint service with the other three churches in the adjoining parish's of Aldingham, Rampside and Dendron. The service was held in the playground of Low Furness School and boy was it HOT HOT HOT!! We had a great congregation and the theme for the day was 'Journeying Together'. We did a puppet sketch with Gary recieving a postcard from his best friend Ben who was on holiday in Australia. He was having a great time and was making use of the things that Gary had given him. We went on to do a comedy sketch about the story of Jonah before Mark talked to the children and adults about how God helps us along life's journey even when we turn away from him like Jonah did. Our travelling companion is the Holy Spirit, Mark read from Acts chapter 1 verse 8 when Jesus promised the disciples the Holy Spirit and told them that they would be witnesses for Him in Jerusalem, Judea and Sameria and to the ends of the earth. No matter what life throws at us with the Holy Spirit our journey through life is made better. The vicar Rev. Alex Armstrong summed up the service to the adults.

As we were asked at the very last minute Mark and I felt very unprepared but with the gifts God has given us and through the power of His Holy Spirit we had a great and blessed time. God is Good!!

May He challenge you to use the gifts He has given you on your journey today.

Sarah

Low Furness May Fayre

HOT HOT HOT - is the best way to describe today. The weather was hot, I almost melted I think in the heat. Had a great time at the school and shared God's word with the children using a number of gospel tricks. Unfortunatly one or two failed due to the excessive heat (glue failures and thnigs). Just getting ready for tomorrow as we are involved with the Pentecost service at Urswick Sarah tells me that it is going to be hot again.

Croflands Junior school

Today we took the assembly at the junior school. The year 6 class was out on a school trip to Manchester and another class was out swimming. We told the story of the lost coin and the lady that searched everywhere for it ... yes I was the lady in the story complete with pink wig. The children responded very well to the story and we were able to get across 2 points the first was about respecting the things we have and the second was about how God loves us so much He would do as the lady did and search and search for us. Sarah read the story from the Lion Children's Bible and it said the lady had 10 coins, some were shiny, some dull, some small, others big, some thin and some fat. I was able to get the point in that no matter what we look like God loves us. We sang Touch a Finger next before ending with Wonderful Lord, which the children joined in with - it was brilliant to hear and see all the children singing. It is such a blessing to see all the children in the school welcome us and wanting to talk to us both Sarah and I feel really privileged to be doing what we are doing.

It was Magic at the Mothers Union

Tuesday this week we had a talk to do at Bouth Mothers Union. It was great!! First I gave a talk about my early childhood in church and Sunday School then went on to talk about our work with children now. Following a tea break I then went on to do a magic show ending it with an extended gospel routine. Both Sarah and I enjoyed ourselves and I think so did the ladies. You see Bertie the Clown the Jester for Jesus is not just for the children.