We enjoyed another family fun day working with other local churches for the half-term holiday, with 89 people coming to join us to look at two miracles of healing which Jesus did. We used stories by Andrew McDonagh and learned about four friends who brought a crippled man to Jesus to be healed… only to find they had to climb to the roof and lower him down that way because of the crowds! Needless to say, Jesus not only healed the man but forgave his sins too! Our second story was about a man with leprosy whom Jesus healed.
We did lots of building based on the first story, with children enjoying building out of cardboard boxes, Lego, Duplo and Megabloks. We also celebrated friendship by making friendship bracelets and decorated biscuits to look like wounds that were bandaged (strawberry jam and icing to the rescue!) Our final craft celebrated doctors and nurses whom God also uses to heal us.
As always, there was lots of delicious food and we are grateful to Gregg’s for supplying sandwiches, pasties, pizza slices, sausage rolls and desserts and to others who provided sandwiches, cupcakes and hot dogs!
