It was
our All Age Praise service today and so we built a Jesse Tree. I can hear you
ask – “So what’s a Jesse Tree?”
It comes
from Isaiah 11 “A shoot will come forth from the stump of Jesse and a branch
out of his roots”. The Tree connects the Advent season with the love and
faithfulness of God throughout 4000 years of history and of course it leads us
to Jesus, the Messiah.
A full
Jesse Tree depicts a different for each day of Advent, but we only chose 6 of
them, given that we only had one service and we made it from tree branches
painted green, to show the new life that Jesus brings. We dressed it with our
own Christmas decorations telling of various times in History. So we had scenes
from the Creation story (a globe and a whale) Noah and the flood (Ark and
Rainbow), King David (a Crown and star) Mary (the Holy Family, Mary and lilies)
and finally we thought about the coming of Jesus, being the Light of the World
so we had cut-outs of a Sun, a Star and Candle-light.
While the
children were busy beavering away, the adults discussed each of the readings in
turn, and the whole service was broken up by some very lively songs and other
more thoughtful ones. So we enjoyed ‘Colours of Day’ and the Arky Arky song;
Mary’s song of Praise ‘Tell out my Soul’ was followed by the newest version of
‘The Lord’s my Shepherd, we then sang ‘Light of the World’ and closed with
‘Shine Jesus Shine’ – of course!
Thank you
to all who worked so hard to make it happen. We had a great time and learned an
enormous amount; the Tree now sits in the Church so why not go and have a look?
HAPPY
ADVENT!
Deacon Olivia
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