Report and photos - Jim Paterson
The ambulance races to save another injured casualty.
The
March Messy Church event attracted many families with children to St.
Mungo's church hall where a warm welcome awaited, many having fought
through snow flurries and bitter cold winds arriving from the west.
Theme
for the month was 'Healing Bartimaeus'. The bible story of Bartimaeus,
the blind beggar, tells us that he was not happy being blind, and
believed Jesus could help, and if he persevered in asking he might
catch the attention of Jesus.
Jesus heals us physically,
mentally, emotionally and spiritual, but not always right away. We need
to continue to have faith and to persevere in our relationship with him.
Our
crafts were all about getting better when feeling unwell. On arrival
the children were given an ambulance 'jigsaw' puzzle with each piece
requiring a word put on it. To find the words they had too search round
the hall for the hidden answers.
Craft time with everyone busy
Being
unable to see makes all sorts of tasks very difficult. We had the
blindfold obstacle race where children had to walk through a range of
obstacle to reach the end of the course without wandering off the right
path. Help was at hand to provide gentle guidance when starting to
drift too far off course.
Changing Faces had paper plate faces
with a happy smile on one side and a glum upset face on the other,
showing how some things make us happy, and others sad.
Fingertip
Pictures where we made pictures with string, then covered it all with
tinfoil. A friend, blindfolded then had to feel the picture and guess
what it was. It was a lot harder than it sounded.
Bandage
Cakes proved popular, not only because you could eat them. A mini jam
roll when squashed looked just like a broken limb with the red jam
looking a bit like blood. Ouch! Bandaging up in fondant icing helped,
and made the cake taste even better.
Get Well Cards used lots of pictures and glitter to give to someone poorly and needing a lift.
The
big project was to build an ambulance. This time Neil Cape and
Andrew Dunsire used their creative skills with the children helping to
make our cardboard ambulance, complete with wheels, blue and red
flashing lights, green cross on the side, and of course a stretcher for
the patients.
Sheila Anderson was on the creative prayer area
where children wrote a prayer on a sticking plaster for people they
knew not feeling too well, and sticking it on to our person drawing.
Rae Hunter and friends tell the story of Bartimaeus
Our
time in the church was led by Andrew Dunsire on guitar and singing
along with Holly Taylor. We started by singing 'Have you got the
sunshine S.M.I.L.E. after which Rae Hunter read the story of Bartimaeus
and how he persevered to speak to Jesus who then healed him and
gave him back his sight. The children used their changing faces to
display how sad Bartimaeus became happy. We finished by singing 'God
cares for me, and I care for Him', complete with all the actions, and a
closing prayer.
Joan Cape and her band of helpers had been busy
in the kitchen and we were served with a meal of sausages, beans and
potatoes, followed by a fruit crumble pudding with ice cream. Everyone
enjoyed their time and went home with the crafts they had made.
The April Messy Church Church is on Sunday March 29th, with the theme 'Loving Easter'.
For more information on Messy Church contact Katrina McDonald 07872 996906, or Lynne Turnbull 07812 648924.
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