BX NT3 Low Furness School

This afternoon I had the great pleasure of working once again with the year 5/6 class at Low Furness School doing Bible Explorer.  As it was week 3 the stories covered today included the events leading up to the death of Jesus and him rising from the dead on Easter Sunday.  The children all sat and listened, joining in with the hand signs as well as coming forward to take part in some of the stories, like explaining about the clearing of the temple by Jesus.

Leven Valley School

This morning Sarah and I went down to Leven Valley School for the first assembly of the new school year.  It was great to see all the children again including the new starters. We introduced them to a new song Help Me Be Your Eyes Lord Jesus as the words reflected what we wanted to talk about today.  Once again Sarah did all the talking my throat is better but just needed it resting a little longer.  Sarah told the story of the small boy who came to Jesus with 5 small barley loaves and two fish when the disciples wanted to send the crowd of 5000 men plus women plus children away.  Jesus used the boys small offering and fed them all.  Sarah pointed out that the small amount of food would just about feed 5 of the reception class, and what Jesus did was a miracle - but it started with a small boy looking at a problem and doing something to help.  Sarah encouraged the children to use their eyes to look around and see where they could help out in school, at home and outside of school in the community.  We finished with Shine before closing with a prayer.

Our Lady's School Dalton

This morning Sarah and I went to Our Lady's School for the first assembly of the new school year.  We introduced them to a new song Help Me Be Your Eyes Lord Jesus as the words reflected what we wanted to talk about today.  Once again Sarah did all the talking my throat is better but just needed it resting a little longer.  Sarah told the story of the small boy who came to Jesus with 5 small barley loaves and two fish when the disciples wanted to send the crowd of 5000 men plus women plus children away.  Jesus used the boys small offering and fed them all.  Sarah pointed out that the small amount of food would just about feed 5 of the reception class, and what Jesus did was a miracle - but it started with a small boy looking at a problem and doing something to help.  Sarah encouraged the children to use their eyes to look around and see where they could help out in school, at home and outside of school in the community.  We finished with Shine before closing with a prayer.

St Marys Dalton

This morning Sarah and I went to do our first assembly of the new school year at St Marys School Dalton.  Sarah had to do all the talking this morning as I have a very sore throat, so I just operated the computer and did the actions to the songs.  We started with Help Me Be Your Eyes Lord Jesus then Sarah talked a bit about eyes before telling the story of the feeding 5000.  She pointed out that the little boy used his eyes and then his hands to do something to help out.  She encouraged the children to follow his example not only in school but at home and in the community.  To finish we sang Shine then Sarah closed with a prayer.

Lindel and Marton School

This morning Sarah and I went to do our first assembly of the new school year at Lindel and Marton School.  Sarah had to do all the talking this morning as I have a very sore throat, so I just operated the computer and did the actions to the songs.  We started with Help Me Be Your Eyes Lord Jesus then Sarah talked a bit about eyes before telling the story of the feeding 5000.  She pointed out that the little boy used his eyes and then his hands to do something to help out.  She encouraged the children to follow his example not only in school but at home and in the community.  To finish we sang Shine then Sarah closed with a prayer.

Ignite

Last night we had a great time at Ignite.  We started last week to work our way through the Bible starting with Adam and Eve and last night we moved on to Noah.  We had our altogether time first playing some silly intro games before looking at the story.  We then split off into smaller groups to look in a little more depth at the story and how Noah had to trust God and obey what God said.  We read sections of the story and the young people responded and wrote down what they thought Noah was felling at the time.  We had all sorts of feelings coming out, sad, glad, special, proud, confused.  The bottom line was that Noah had to trust God and obey him by doing what God had asked him to do - as we all should do!  At the end we prayed using a prayer net, this is when someone starts the pray time with a Praise then passes a ball of string round the room of people (keeping hold of the end) then another Praise, pass on holding onto the string.  Once everyone had done this once we did it again this time by saying thank you for something.  The result was a strong network of pray.  To finish we asked them to think of something they wanted to let go of and as the ball of string was gathered in they released their finger from it - letting it go.

Pennington School

On Monday afternoon Sarah and I went and did our first assembly of the new school year at Pennington School.  It was good to see all the children again and the new reception class came into assembly for the first time too..  We started with a new song Help Me Be Your Eyes Lord Jesus which led into our theme for the day.  Sarah talked about what we use our eyes for then linked into our story about a boy who used his eyes to see a problem and then he acted on it.  I then retold the story of Jesus feeding the 5000, I displayed pictures on the screen for the children to see as I told the story.  At the end I pointed out that the boy had used his eyes to see the problem and his hands to do something about it - Jesus caused a miracle to happen which enabled all the people to be fed.  At the end we asked the children what song to sing between Shine and Help Me Be Your Eyes - they picked Shine after the song Sarah closed with a prayer.