by Julie Turner | Apr 9, 2020 | What's Happening
There are some great children’s videos telling the Easter story out there. Here are a few links you may want to use to tell the story. 1. Andrew McDonough (author of the ‘Cecil The Sheep’ stories which we often use in assemblies, church and Family...
by Julie Turner | Apr 9, 2020 | What's Happening
So for those of you with children wanting to teach about Holy Week, what can you do? Obviously you can read the story from the Bible, but children often need activities to do to help the story come to life. Here are a few suggestions for activities you can do, all of...
by Julie Turner | Apr 9, 2020 | What's Happening
Today is Maundy Thursday, a strange name arising from the Latin word ‘mandatum’, referring to the new commandment that Jesus gave His disciples to love one another. (John 13:34-35) It’s a day when, in countless church services over the world, we...
by Julie Turner | Apr 9, 2020 | What's Happening
Below is a blog from Rend Collective that’s worth pondering. “We’ve been thinking a lot about choices. Hey Friends, It can feel like we don’t actually have a lot of power to make decisions right now. We can’t choose to go out for a bite to eat. Or go to...
by Julie Turner | Apr 8, 2020 | What's Happening
Jesus summed up all the commandments with the command to love God and to love our neighbour. When we embrace love, we embrace the very nature of God, for God is love. (1 John 4:8) We often have a very romanticised view of love in the Western world, immediately...
