Back Again

It's almost a month since my last blog - anyone would have thought that I was away on holiday...but now I'm back. Over the next week or so there will be pictures of the banner we made in Holiday Bible Club - for those of you who are waiting for that. There will be some thoughts on the last in our Sunday morning series looking at Hebrews. And there will be a few pictures from our summer holiday. And by the middle of September I will hopefully be able to update you on all R's test results from Great Ormond Street.

Holiday Club

Thursday - one day to go! Holiday Club has been great so far. We've had good fun, even if we could all sleep for a week! So here are a few pictures.

Each morning we have an 'aerobics' session with the Restaurant Cleaning Crew!

Creative prayer - on Monday we wrote on fish, yesterday we stuck our prayers onto a wooden cross, today we stuck red hearts onto clothes on a washing line. It has been great to read some of the things that the children are writing.

Today the children decorated squares for a church banner. This is the 'before' layout - come back next week to see the afterwards!

And just in case you're not worn out yet - clean forwards, clean backwards, clean forwards, clean backwards...

Boomerang

Today our 2010 Holiday Bible Club started, and we had a great time. The title of the club is Rocky's Plaice and throughout the week we are looking at stories from the life of Peter as recorded in the book of Acts.

Today we started with the Ascension (Acts 1) - the story of how, 40 days after the resurrection, Jesus went up into heaven, but with the promise that he would return again - hence the boomerang reference.

The keyword for the day is HOPE. And Christians live with this hope - that Jesus is coming back again one day. And this is not just some wishful thinking, but it is a sure and a certain hope, because God has promised, and God never breaks a promise.

The memory verse the children learned was from Psalm 145:13 - God is trustworthy in all he promises.

Maybe some photos tomorrow.

Our God is Greater

If you read this blog regularly you will know that every Friday morning I get a new email from www.worshiptogether.com arrive on my desktop. Included within this email will be details of a new song, free sheet music to download, and a short video interview with the writer(s) talking about how the song came about, how best to play it ...

You will also know that I am quite a fan of Chris Tomlin's music - even if it is slightly on the high side when it comes to singing in church!

Here is one of his latest songs, taken from the Passion Awakening album, and written with Matt Redman, Jonas Myrin and Jesse Reeves. The first video is just the song, and then if you're interested in hearing more about it the second video is the interview with Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin. Enjoy.