Dear Messy Family
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As you know, Messy Church has happened monthly on a Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. for many years. It’s a time for children and their carers to have a fun and creative time together while learning more about the Christian faith and events from the Bible. There is a celebration time in church which is usually led by our minister and this is followed by a meal which we all share together.
October Messy
Messy Church in October was all about the changing seasons and harvest.
We made potato prints of harvest fruits and played a challenge game to see how many points we could score rolling conkers down an obstacle course.
The leaves of trees change colour in autumn, and we made some harvest wreaths out of coloured paper. And here’s a big collage of the leaves falling off a tree and hedgehogs curling up to sleep in them for the winter.
And it’s not just a time of ripening seeds and fruit; it’s time to plant bulbs for flowers next year. Watch this space to see what happens in spring!
Harvest loaves are a tradition of the season of thanksgiving for our food. We turned pieces of dough into all sorts of shapes. When they were baked, we took fresh bread home!
In church we continued to talk about saying thank you – and sang ‘Thank you God for this fine day ….right where we are’ while Jane played her guitar. We added more verses as we thought of things to say ‘thank you’ for, like our favourite foods, and our friends and family.
We played the Harvest Shuffle game using flash card letters to think about harvest.
We began by getting letters into the right order to hold up to spell out HARVEST.
Because of our harvest, we HAVE food to EAT for our TEA (and all our other meals!). (Letters E and A were very busy!)
Unfortunately, harvests are not always good. Sometimes they fail. When this happens, it ends in TEARS and people can even STARVE.
Some people have more than they need, while others do not have enough to EAT.
There is a word which can help with this. How about: SHARE? This is a way which we can celebrate the harvest – by sharing what we have with those in need.
We celebrated by singing and dancing to the Harvest Samba before Jane said a prayer and we went to share a meal together