Penny Bridge Samaritan's Purse Assembly

This afternoon we made our second visit of the week to Penny Bridge School however this time it was with Lisa and we did a Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child assembly.  I open the assembly and we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger then Lisa spoke to the children about God's love and referred back to previous assemblies that she has done with the children at the school.  This led to the shoe box appeal.  I then showed the children what they can put into a shoe box and played the Love in a Box video.  At the end I read the words of the chorus to the children and told them how many shoe boxes we sent away last year - 1 million and asked the children if they thought they might like to get involved this year.  I end the assembly with a short prayer and Lisa shared her bottle of Coke replaying the ad campaign from this summer.

Low Furness School

Today the theme for the assembly was God's Love so after singing God's Love is Bigger than a Burger I took a bottle of Coke and asked if anyone remembered the Coke ad from the summer which was share a Coke with.... I used the Coke as an illustration of how we can share God's love.  I asked for examples of how we can share God's love with others and those that gave me answers got a small cup of the Coke which I shared.  I then handed over to Sarah who spoke a bit more about God's love and she then read 1 Corinthians 13 about love and for each statement I displayed it on the screen.  We then sang I Love You and the girls signed it at the front.  We closed with a prayer.

Church Walk Primary School

This morning Sarah and I went along to Church Walk Primary school to take a Samaritan's Purse assembly.  After the children had settled down we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger which led Sarah into the talk about love and about getting ready for Christmas.  She asked if the children knew how many days it was until Christmas and if they had started their Christmas lists or not.  A lot of the children put their hands up during the assembly.  Sarah told the children that their are children in the world today that have never ever had a present of any kind - she asked how they might feel - sad, upset, unhappy came the children's replies.  Sarah handed over to me to talk about what they could do.  I explained about Operation Christmas Child and how simple it is to collect a few items and put them in a box for a child in need.  We then watched the Love in a Box video.  At the end of the video I told the children that 1 million boxes were collected last year and that they could be a part of that 1 million this year.  We then said a short prayer.

Penny Bridge School

This afternoon I was at Penny Bridge School for the assembly.  I introduced the children to a new song 'God Can do Anything'   then told the Ruth story to the children using the children's bible and displayed the pictures on the screen as I read the story.  I then encouraged the children to be like Ruth and put others first before themselves as she did and reaped a great reward as a result.  I then linked that to the Samaritan's Purse assembly which is planned for Wednesday.  To close we sang Wonderful Lord. and I said a short prayer.

Pennington School Samaritan's Purse Assembly

This morning Lisa Smith and myself went to Pennington School to do a Samaritan's Purse assembly.  We started with God's Love is Bigger than a Burger and then Lisa talked to the children about sharing what we have with those that don't have as much as we do.  She used the Coke ad from this summer as an example 'Share a Coke with...'  She explained that the children can share their love this Christmas time by packing a shoe box.  I then explained what to put into a shoe box before showing the Love in a Box video clip.  At the end I read the words of the chorus again to the children and encouraged them to get involved to be a part of the 1 million shoe boxes we are hoping to send again this year from our country.  I then ended with a prayer.

Haverigg Primary School Samaritan's Purse Assembly

Sarah and I went over towards Millom yesterday to do an assembly for Samaritan's Purse at Haverigg Primary School.  It was our first ever visit to the school.  We had a wonderful warm welcome from both the staff and the pupils.  There was a great buzz about the school and a friendly atmosphere.  The head opened up the assembly with some awards to pupils of the week in each year as well as giving out cake to children with birthdays.  We were introduced to the children as Mr and Mrs Callaghan.  I introduced us to the children as Mark and Sarah.  To start we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger.  Then Sarah talked about Christmas by asking the children if they knew how many days to Christmas Day including today.  She also talked about Christmas present lists and asked a few children what was on theirs.  This led to talking about children in our world that don't get any presents at Christmas or birthday's.  Sarah asked the children how they would feel if they had never, ever got a present - sad, upset, unhappy came the responses.  She handed over to me to talk about Operation Christmas Child and how they could make a difference by packing goodies in a shoe box.  I told the children what they can and can't put in a box and showed them examples.  Then I talked about the cost of sending a box to a far of place and how the £3 would help to send their boxes this year.  We then watched the Love in a Box video clip.  After the clip had finished I read the chorus out to the children again and explained that last year 1 million boxes were sent from our country.  I also asked who would love to get involved this year and most hands went up.  Sarah then said a prayer as we ended the assembly.  At the end the head asked us to play the video clip again as the children left the hall, and some of the year 6 children came up to us and thanked us for the assembly a couple even shook our hands.

Croftlands Junior school Samaritans Purse assembly

This morning I was at Croftlands Junior school to do a Samaritans Purse assembly.  To start with we sang God's Love is Bigger than a Burger then I asked a few questions about presents like for birthdays and Christmas.  All the children thought that getting presents was great. I told the children that there are some children in the world that have never had a present at all in their life. I asked them how they would feel if they had never been given a present.  Sad was the thing most children said.  I went on to explain about the work of Operation Christmas Child. I then showed the Love in a Box video, at the end of it I read out the words of the chorus.  I then explained how they could get involved.  I left them with some Go Boxes as well as some leaflets. I finished the assembly with a prayer.