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.
Messy August Special
We had an amazing time at Messy Church today in the park – a very hot day and dry brown grass under our feet as we gathered for a picnic in the shade of the trees. We had brought all sorts of food with us – pasties, chicken, salads, cakes and fruit
We sat and talked or spent time in the nearby playground while we waited… for what?
Others played a game to remind us of what we were waiting for. We had to throw bean bags and juggling balls on to a painting of the planets so see if we could get their shadow to fall and make an eclipse. The eclipse of the sun, as the moon cast a shadow over it, was what we were waiting for!
Using a phone, we checked how the eclipse was happening in different countries; the first pictures were from Iceland and gradually the moon’s shadow moved towards us. We had some special viewing glasses to look at the sun to protect our eyes as we looked to the sky in the north-west.
And then we saw it – a piece ‘missing’ from the side of the sun. As the minutes ticked by, the shadow gradually got larger and larger until almost all of the sun was covered.
And our shadows got longer and longer on the grass, and the air became cooler as the light and heat from the sun was blocked out by the moon.
What were the words we heard used to describe it?
Amazing, incredible, cool, awesome…..
It hasn’t happened here for 27 years, and it will be more than 64 years before it happens here again!
‘A heavenly experience’ was how the news channels reported it. Where did that description come from? In the Bible it says:
‘The heavens declare to glory of God; the skies proclaim to work of his hands’ Psalm 19 v1
So, our Messy Church special drew to a close. See you all again on Wednesday 9th September!