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Messy Cake that Andy Turnbull baked

Samson long hair and weights

Busy at craftwork

  Neil Cape leading the strength challenge

Samson before he is made strong.

Andy Turnbull with helpers builds temple

Samson demolishes temple

Samson on the paint mat

    Gathering in the church

Messy Church - Samson  Sunday 2nd February 


The teams get crafting stories of Samson 

The first Messy Church for 2014 took the story of Samson as the theme. Once again the church hall was filled with laughter and fun as around 80 children with their mums and dads and family made around 100 folks getting involved with a range of crafts and activities describing different aspects of the Samson story.

Strength plays a big part in the Samson story and Neil Cape led a table which showed the children how God gave Samson strength by using a simple piece of paper with little strength folded to make it really strong. The strong 'Samson' was tested with marbles, the winner's  Samson managing to hold up over 30 !

Of course a great craft is one you can eat, and decorating cupcakes is one way to do it. special eyes and edible string for Samson's long hair looked extra tasty too.

Depicting Samson on the paint mat in the country and the forest got hands covered in paint. Meanwhile Samson lifted heavy weights in the shape of a strand of spaghetti pasta with marshmallows on each end.

Everyone knows that Samson tumbled the Philistines temple of Dagon, which was  a major factor in their downfall at Mizpah by Samuel and the children of Israel some 100 years later. Our 'temple' was built by master builder Andy Turnbull, with the help of many children. It suffered more than one collapse and rebuild as everyone wanted to be Samson knocking it down !

Soon it was time to head for the church where we heard the story of Samson, as played by the puppets. This month not only did the senior girls operate the puppets but they narrated the story too, using a script created by Sophie McDonald. Graham McDonald told us how Samson had made many mistakes and had been wrong lots of 

times, just as we sometimes are. That is part of being human. However God is always ready to forgive us if we follow him and repent, as Samson did.

We sang 'Our God is a Great Big God' and 'Be bold be strong' with the children taking part in the actions. A real animated performance.



Graham tells the story of how Samson was saved and how we can be too

After our closing prayer it was back to the hall for a meal of pasta and salad where we all sat at large tables to talk about the experiences of the afternoon.

Messy Church is a great way for families with children to hear about God and Jesus in a fun and interactive way.


Messy Church returns on Sunday 2nd March from 4.00 to 6.00pm.   
 
Penicuik: St. Mungo's Parish Church (Church of Scotland). Scottish Charity No SC005838