Messy Church - 3 February

The February Messy Church on Sunday 3rd took the theme 'The Story of Hannah - Pray as Hannah prayed'.

The afternoon started with plenty of 'messy crafts', some artistic while others could be eaten as well.

Moasic notebook cover - Design and decorate your own prayer diary.  

Prayer candle holder - Decorate a tealight candle holder.

Prayer hand - Draw round your hand and write a prayer reminder on each finger.

Dead of night experience - Help to create a dark tunnel using chairs, blankets, boxes and more. Pretend to be Samuel, Hannah’s son as he walked through the temple in the dark.  This one attracted lots of the kids and some dads too. Andy Turnbull who is one of our resident 'builders' once again did a great job with sheets of cardboard and blankets to make a really long tunnel. It was really dark in the tunnel so it must really have felt like Samuel walking though the temple.  

Phone Line - See if you can make your own phone line using yoghurt pots and string.  This was the old tin can and string phone that parents would remember from their own childhood. Brought up to date with modern yoghurt pots, the effect was jus tthe same. As you can see there were some 'crossed lines' as people tried lots of 'calls' at the same time. Some disconnections too as the string was stretched a bit too far on occasions. 

Blessings Box - Make your own blessings box. Fill it with blessings that you can then pass on to someone special. These were great as once decorated the children selected from a wide range of blessing requests to rollup and place inside their boxes.

Get real! -‘Whatever your mood, get real with God’. Try out our emotion notice board. A free hand to put up what was on your mind.

Marbles -Come and have a go at our marble experiment. Neil Cape organised a very technical experiment. Marbles were dropped into one of two bottles, each with 'God answers your Prayers' on them, and timed how long they took to reach the bottom of the bottle. It took about 4 seconds for one of the bottles, and about 4 minutes on the other (it was full of syrup). The moral of the experiment was that God always answers our prayers, but some prayers take longer than others to receive an answer!

Candle cupcakes -Decorate a yummy candle cupcake. This one was really good as the end result could be eaten right away. With cream topping, sprinkles, buttons, and a candle available for the kids to decorate. The end results were very tasty looking.

It was soon time for 'Song Time' and the group of musicians led a series of songs that involved the children with all the action to numbers like 'Our God is a great big God'. The story of Hannah formed the story time, before we all came together for a meal.

This month we enjoyed a chilli, or vegetable chilli and rice, followed by chocolate pudding and custard.