Our next Messy Church will be 10.00am Saturday 20th December

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This month our theme was “Remembering”

We talked about how remembrance is a time for us to remember and be thankful for all men and women around the world who fought for their countries and for peace. We also learned why we wear poppies to help us remember all of these brave people. 

Jesus taught us to be peace makers and we made dove peace prayers to remember the importance of peace. These were then carefully hung up in Church.

We made savoury poppy biscuits, using the symbol which we use to remember all the people who served to protect us.

We also talked about remembrance in a broader sense. We crafted stained glass windows, using acetate and glass pens. Stained glass windows in churches help us to remember stories from the Bible.  We played a memory game and made bubble pictures – although the bubbles themselves don’t last, the pictures that they make do!

We then remembered the birth of Jesus.

We made kings and camels and hung these on our Messy Church Christmas Tree, the theme for which is “We Three Kings”

Our Celebration focused on part of the story of Joseph (Genesis chapter 37 onwards)

The cupbearer remembers that Joseph can say what dreams mean, his brothers remember what they did to him, and his father remembers his long-lost son.

The children enthusiastically watched this being acted out.