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.
September Messy
Today we’ve been looking at ‘God the giver of Light and Life’, through a game and some activities.
Here’s some pictures we coloured and we thought about God’s wonderful world and made a collage of things we had collected like shells
And some things are hidden – look at what happened when we let water flow through the colours in our felt-tip pens. The water carries the colours and separates them.
We decorated light bulb shapes with crayons and tissue paper and put the words ‘Let your light shine’ on them.
So where does that saying come from? The Bible! Here’s a jigsaw we were challenged to complete as quickly as we could. It’s harder than it looks!
Speaking of light, who saw the eclipse last month? Some of us were at our Messy in the Park – Eclipse Picnic last month. Did you see how amazing the sun looked when we looked through our special glasses?
Do you remember how the moon’s shadow covered most of the sun? The light still got through around the edge of the moon. Here’s what we saw:
The sun is so big you could fit a million Earths in it! The temperature is about 5,500 C – Earth is about 15 C! The Bible says that God made the sun to shine on us in the day. It gives energy to all life on Earth and also makes the weather, which provides water for life.
Jesus is described as the ‘Light of the world’. God sent him to remind everyone of his great love for us all. Jesus brings new life, light and beauty into dark situations. If we trust in Jesus, he will shine his light for us to follow.
We joined in a Bible reading from John Chapter 1 about Light and Life by saying the words ‘Life’ and ‘Light’ whenever we heard them
Everything was created through God. God made everything.
Nothing, not one thing came into being without him.
God made LIFE, and the LIFE was LIGHT to live by.
The LIFE – LIGHT shone out into the darkness, and the darkness couldn’t put it out.
The LIFE – LIGHT was the real thing.
Everyone that has LIFE God brings into LIGHT.
God sent Jesus – his child – to show us the LIFE we can lead and the LIGHT we can share with others. We are all children of God because of this.
Then we sang a song about Life and Light before we went to share a meal together