Our Junior Church anniversary, like previous years an extravagansa of exciting stuff that our Junior Church have been working on for a while - usually Debbie and Jane seem to have it all decided by April 
As with previous years this co-incides with the Cubs sleepover (surely a misnomer) so it will be a full parade service - arrive early to get a good seat (or maybe even a seat at all)!
As a special treat, Lucy is preaching this year and who better to deliver something relevant and memorable.
The band are playing - I wonder if that is so it is more exciting as we watch Jane and Debbie rush to and fro throughout the service.
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It was a lovely service even the gremlins worked over time to make sure no one fell asleep!! Debbie, Jane and Jo with the junior church worked very hard to make it an interesting service for all ages.
Thank you to everyone who has passed on comments about Sundays service. I’m glad so many people enjoyed it.
For those who weren’t there we based our service around gifts and talents and how we use our God given gifts.
The service started with a “deal or no deal” type game called accept or reject where boxes were chosen and each contained something we were thankful for such as friends, love, chocolate!, the Holy Spirit, and the “contestant” had to decide whether to accept that gift or stick with the unknown one inside their own box. There were some difficult decisions to make!
We then had the story from Matthews gospel about the tenants and rejecting the corner stone.
Thank you to all the uniformed organisations who made pictures to go with the song “Who’s the King of the Jungle”. (photo to follow).
A small piece of the film “Happy feet” was used to demonstrate how our gifts don’t always fit with those around us and Lucy gave a wonderful sermon on how it feels to be accepted / rejected and asking us to think about our gifts and how we use them on a day to day basis.
seeing as how this was JC anniversary we couldn’t just sit still all morning so everyone then moved around the church to make their own happy foot which was a foot print that they decorated with words of thanks and their own gifts - what a talented lot we all are!
Thanks again to all those who helped make the morning so enjoyable and meaningful, time to start planning for Christmas now so watch this space!