Twenty children spent three hours at St Mary’s this morning and fun, games and craft. As well as meeting Charlie and Alice, playing Christmassy games and singing, the children made lots of different crafts.
These crafts included foam Christmas trees, candy canes, candles, Christmas cards and decorating Christingle biscuits. For display in church over Christmas, children each decorated a star which will go on a banner right above the choir stalls.
Everybody seemed to be smiling, but tired, after a fun-packed Children’s Activity Morning: “Veg Out.”
All the activities were to do with autumn and harvest. Children made Potato Heads, vegetable shaped candles, an autumn princess, an autumn wreath and decorated ladybird buns. Charlie and Alice talked about sharing what they had been given (they were growing carrots!) and autumn themed games were mixed in.
We hope you can come to the next Activity Morning – keep an eye on the web site!
The Potato Heads were popular, but perhaps rather messy!
The next of the highly popular children’s activity mornings takes place on 15th October 2011. It is all about harvest and will include games, craft, stories and a lot of fun! There may even be an appearance from Charlie and Alice!
The morning lasts from 9.30-12.30 and to book your place contact the Vicarage on 01924 472375. The cost is just £3 per child.
We look forward to seeing you all there!!
This morning the All-Age service was about Christian Aid week. The church was adorned with bunting and balloons (which were taken home by the children!) and the service was all about giving others hope.
We learned through a video about Gustavo, a coffee grower in Nicaragua. With the help of Christian Aid, he, and hundreds of other growers, are able to obtain a fair price for their goods. This has been achieved by becoming part of a co-operative able to continue the processing of the beans.
Please, if you have a collection at your house, make a donation to allow people like Gustavo and his community break out of poverty!
This is the video shown this morning:
Today’s All-Age service was about Friendship and how Jesus is a friend to us all. Charlie and Alice had a difficulty to overcome. The focussing on the video gets better after a few seconds!:
We are looking at Easter – rolling away the stone – for our spring holiday activity morning.
The morning is for 4-11 year olds and is from 10am-1pm on Saturday 16th April 2011.
To secure your place, return the following information together with £3 to the Vicarage, or ring Amanda on (01924) 472375.
Information required: Name and age of child, address, contact number during the session, name of person authorised to collect, allergies/medical information.