We had a wonderful time this morning at TFG;
we celebrated Jesus is Risen and sang songs of Thanksgiving and Celebration. We
also sang ‘We have a King who rides a donkey’ and talked of the true nature of
service.
Splitting the story of Thomas in half, we
talked about the saint, who was brave enough not to follow the crowd while the
children did all sorts of craft activities. Then swopping over, the adults went
and made prayer promises while I spoke with the children and asked them how
they could help their families. There were some very interesting responses,
with one 3-year old promising to help ‘Daddy wash the car’ – while her sister
said she would help with the washing up. Another 5 year old would be doing the
cooking from now on (which rather worried her mum!) – and all in all we had an
amazing and very heart-warming time.
The ‘grown-ups’ took time out to explore each
other’s faces; an interesting experiment which showed that people looked at the
person and not the superficial - possessions, beauty or achievements. Indeed
they looked at the person behind – just like Jesus does, who loves us all for
whom we are and not what we have. The prayer promises, finally fixed to the
Easter Cross and the children’s poster of ‘helping hands’ have both been
displayed in church.
We sang songs of being freed by Jesus, and
closed with ‘Thine be the Glory’ with a little impromptu band of children and
their instruments.
And so we were finally ready to go out into
the world, loving and serving Jesus,
just as he first loved and served you and me.
Happy Easter!
Alleluia – Christ is Risen!
He is Risen indeed – Alleulia.
Dcn. Olivia
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