As a church, we don’t celebrate Halloween. We want to keep our eyes focussed on Jesus, rather than allowing ourselves to be distracted by darkness – witches, spooky creatures, skeletons, spiders and bats… It’s not good to focus on such things, we feel. John 1:5 tells us that ‘the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.’ We prefer to focus on light and God’s goodness to us.
The Snap Tin Community Hub is running a scarecrow trail at the end of October (29-31 October), and whilst we don’t want to make a scary scarecrow, we’ll be learning how to make scarecrows at our Parent & Toddler group over the next two weeks. As a church, we will be making an angel scarecrow! Our angel will hopefully stand as a reminder of the light shining in the darkness, a reminder that God is the God of light, and that in Jesus we find light and life.
We don’t want our angel to scare anyone (not even crows) but to remind all that God is real, as are His angels. I’m not sure that our angel will look anywhere near as interesting as the pictures below (never having made an angel before!), but watch this space for further news of our angel scarecrow.
