Church Walk Primary School

This morning Sarah and I went along to Church Walk Primary School for our first assembly of the new school year.  As it is the beginning of a new term we decided to talk about beginnings and creation, so after singing Creator God Sarah told the creation story from the Lion Storyteller bible.  I then followed the story up and talked with the children about their summer holidays and how beautiful this part of the world is.  I also mentioned about how God wants us to look after the world that he has created and care for it as well as care for each other.  We followed this up with a new song God's Love is Bigger than a Burger.  Then we said a short Prayer.

Penny Bridge School

This afternoon we went over to Penny Bridge school.  As we arrived the children greeted us and asked how we were which was a great welcome for us.  We did the assembly that we have been doing in all our schools for the first one.  So we sang Creator God and then Sarah introduced the theme - creation by asking the children if they could guess what we might be talking about.  As we have done in other schools I read the Word on the Street version of the story while pictures appeared on the screen.  At the end Sarah asked more questions and talked about us being the caretakers of our planet. Then we sang a new song God's Love is Bigger than a Burger.  Sarah concluded the time together with a prayer.

Pennington School

This morning Sarah and I went along to Pennington School for the first assembly of the new school year.  We decided to do the assembly that we have been doing at other schools in our area - creation.  Sarah introduced the theme after saying hello and asking the children about the summer holidays.  We sang Creator God and then I told the creation story as it is in the Word on the Street Bible with a few extra bits thrown in.  Then Sarah talked a little about the creation and how we are called to be caretakers of the planet and how we should look after it as well as ourselves this led into Great Big God which we sang before finishing with a prayer.

Messy Church

Yesterday (Saturday) was the first Messy church of the new term.  The theme was on Moses and in particular the exit from Egypt.  There were a number of children around and some new faces too.  We all had a great time doing the crafts and playing games.  Then altogether in the main church we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger before I told the story with pictures that talked a bit about the Israelites in Egypt the escape and crossing the Red Sea.  We finished that section off by singing Great Big God.

NT BX2 at Low Furness

This afternoon I was once again at Low Furness School for the second lesson of New Testament Bible Explorer.  During the last lesson we had heard about Jesus' birth and the birth John.  We left the story as Jesus was being baptised and then tempted by Satan.  This week following a recap of the previous lesson we told the story of Nicodemus's visit to Jesus at night, and also the woman at the well story.  Before moving the story through to the start of Jesus' public ministry and him selecting the disciples.  We covered the sermon on the mount and the calming of the storm as well as the feeding of the 5000.  Parables are also talked about, leading up to Peter getting it and declaring that Jesus is the one - the Messiah.  We finish the lesson as Jesus is transfigured before his chosen disciples.  Next week onto Jerusalem.

Ignite

This evening at Ignite after we had munched our way through 6 large pizzas and 2 bags of French fries we had a game of bingo - I did think that we might be able to create a pattern on the bingo card that would spell the key word for the evening - but the first game took so long we never got the chance.  We watched a Relive video tonight about the 10 Lepers and focused in on the fact that all were healed but only one came back to say thank you.  We then explored some different ways that we can say thank you to God, we had a phone, a tray, a heart shaped cushion, a bible, a worship CD and some arm bands for swimming.  Each one can remind us about what to thank God for:-
the arm bands for saving us
the bible His word
the phone we can simply talk to God
the tray we can serve God by serving others
we can thank Him during worship
we can thank Him because He loves us so much

Then we split into small groups with a tube of bubbles and blew bubbles and thank God for all kinds of things.  The children then made a list of 10 people that they would like to say thank you to, and who they would pray for this week.  We ended with a time of chatting to God.

St Peters

This morning Sarah and I went over to St Peters to take the first assembly of this new school year.  We decided to do the assembly that we have done n all our schools just recently.  So Sarah started by asking if the children had had a good summer holiday and then we sang Creator God.  Sarah continued to talk with the children (as I got the visual aids ready) asking if they knew what story I was going to tell and seeing if they knew which book of the bible it came from she also explained that I was going to read it from the Word on the Street Bible.  I explained to the children a bit about the bible I was using.  During the story Sarah displayed pictures displaying the days of creation.  Then she explained a bit about the story and about how we should look after the planet and each other after all our great big God has given it to us to enjoy which was a nice link to the next song.  Following the song I said a short prayer, followed by the Lord's Prayer.