1st Duddon Cubs

We once again paid a visit to the cubs. We had a great time and I hope the boys did too. We had been asked to sing some of our songs and the cubs had made a list of the ones they liked the best. We didn't quite manage to sing them all but we sang most of them. Following the songs we told the story of Jesus calling Peter and Andrew. We have done this story several times in the past few weeks within school assemblies, but tonight we had taken some dress-up costumes for the cubs to act out some of the parts. Sarah read the story while I selected the actors for the various parts. We added a bit of humour to it in that Sarah said that in the boat there was Peter, Andrew and they were working with 'A net' so I chose 3 boys one for Peter, one for Andrew and one which I put a pink wig on and called them Annett! Much to Sarah's surprise when she looked up to see three in the boat so I explained - which then brought the laugh from the boys - you did need to be there but it was funny and it is one way that perhaps the boys might remember the story. It all finished normally and I concluded that we are all different and that Jesus' calls us no matter what we look like, sound like, smell like etc.

Following this we sang Touch a finger then went on to make some finger puppets so the boys could then retell the story. We encouraged them to make them as different as they could.

We then played some games with them before we finished with Shine and Wonderful Lord, during which the boys read out some prayers they had produced last week.

Well that is just a small flavour of what we did. It is great to be able to share God's good news with children and we Praise God every day that we are able to do so. May God Bless the boys and leaders of the cubs today.

Our Lady's Dalton

We have just done our very first assembly with the children of Our Lady's in Dalton. It must have been a little strange for the children to see two adults in their school that they had never seen before but the children soon warmed to us as we introduced ourselves to them as Sarah and Mark. I then asked them did they know which was which? this brought a laugh - We started the assembly with 'Our God is a Great Big God' and as it was the first time we had to teach them the actions. The children soon picked them up and joined in. The story Sarah did with the tomato puree - emptying it out onto a plate then watching the two children as they try to put it back in again. I then explained that our mouth and tongue can be a bit like that because we say things and once they are said we can not take them back again. I picked on a member of staff that we knew and shouted at her to demonstrate this to the children. I then read from James 3:5 which talks about the tongue. The assembly finished with 'Shine' and a prayer at the end.

Following the assembly they made bookings with us for November and December.

A Great start in another school Praise the Lord.

Low Furness School

Today we paid a visit to Low Furness School and told the story of how Jesus called his disciples. We explained to the children that it does not matter at all what we look like, sound like, smell like or what clothes we wear - we are all special in Jesus' eyes. We sang 'So many ways' and after the talk we sang 'Touch a finger'. It is great to see the children all joining in and singing the songs.

St. Marys School, Ulverston

This morning we paid our second visit to St. Marys in Ulverston. We introduced them to two new songs 'So many ways to praise the Lord' and 'Shine'. The theme of the assembly was the tongue and how we can sometimes say things that make a mess. To illustrate this a tube of tomato puree was used (recycle contents for tea later) a child was asked to empty it out onto a plate, which to the children was very funny. Even funnier was when I asked them to put it back into the tube! Because what we say out of our mouths can't be taken back - The verse from James 3:5 was read and explained to the children - '...the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great is set on fire by a small spark.'

Leven Valley

We did our first visit of the year to Leven Valley School today. We sang Our God is a Great Big God and I once again told the story of Jesus calling Peter and Andrew. As the story progressed the children had to respond to key words which they did with great enthusiasm. Once again we finished this assembly with Touch a Finger. It was great to share with the children of the school and we look forward to our next visit in a months time.

St. Peters

Today we paid a first time visit to St.Peters Ireleth. A small school in the village of Ireleth. We sang Great Big God, which the children seemed to pick up very quickly then I told the story of Peter and Andrew when Jesus called them - the children had to respond to certain trigger words and chant back a response which they found exciting. The story was finished by telling the children that we are all special no matter what we look like, smell like, dress like or do as a Jesus still loves us and wants us to follow him. We sang Touch a Finger to finish our part but were asked to sing Wonderful Lord as some of the children had been learning it at their newly form Christianity Club.

A great day Praise the Lord.

What a Busy Day

Well today has been a rather full day. We started with an assembly at St. Marys RC Ulverston at 9:05 then we went onto Pennington School for 10:15 followed by a meeting at St. Peters Ireleth and finaly found ourselves at Kepplewray for a meeting to talk about Christmas.

The two assemblies were based on the bible story of Jesus calling his first followers and we told the children that no matter what we look like, sound like and even smell like we are all special to God. We sang Great big God and Touch a finger.

Our meeting at Ireleth was to discuss with the head about taking assemblies and we start next week and will be doing them once every two weeks which is great news. I also managed to talk a bit about the fundays we do as well as Bible Explorer - watch this space!!

Onto Kepplewray - we have been asked by the staff to do something at Christmas time as a way of telling school children the real meaning behind Christmas so we have been booked for 4 days in December.

So we have had a great day today felling really Blessed and up lifted. Praise God.