| | | Messy Christmas Service - 21 December 2014 |
After
the nativity play during the morning service, St. Mungo's then hosted
the Messy Church Christmas service for families with young, and
not so young children.
Joan Cape led the service, supported by
the Puppets and Graham McDonald on the piano. Joan welcomed
everyone at this busy time as we approach Christmas, with parties, end
of school concerts, shopping, and sending Christmas cards. We also saw
busy postmen, delivering all our cards and presents.
All
of a sudden one of our puppet angels, with sparkly dress and
wings appeared, and told us that it was not only THEM (Postmen) that
are busy! Christmas is a busy time for angels too. Joan then
wondered what an angel looked like, as the bible doesn't actually say
what they look like. Our sparkly angel thought she made a pretty good
likeness of an angel, before disappearing.
 We
then hear the angels message to Mary, telling her of the baby she will
give birth to, telling her:. "You are to call him Jesus. He will
be great and will be called the Son of God, the Most High. He will
reign forever; his kingdom will never end".
The angels also
spoke to Joseph, saying "Don’t be afraid to take Mary home as
your wife, because this baby in her is from the Holy Spirit. She
will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus
because he will save his people from their sins".
We sang Away
in a manger, with slides showing drawings painted by the children from
schools across Penicuik. We then watched a video of the
shepherd's seeing the bright light that would lead them to
Bethlehem, and heard the story from Joan of the angels message to the shepherds, telling them to go to the stable where Jesus was born.
A
puppet appeared, saying the shepherds all saw the angels, so they must
know what they look like! Joan agreed but it wasn't like that,
telling us what one of the shepherds said. Though they could not
actually see the angel they heard it telling them that a baby was to be
born this night and to hurry to Bethlehem. It doesn't really matter
what an angel looks like, the important thing is the message they
bring.
We sang a carol written by Beth Hudson, 'O star, O star so bright'.
 The
story concluded with what happened at the end of Jesus's life, nailed
to a cross. How he was taken down and put in a grave, and three days
later he rose from the dead, at a time we call Easter, which is really
the end of the Christmas story. The story of the baby Jesus who came to
earth, lived among us, and then died on that cross so that we can go
one day to be with God in Heaven.
The children then selected
an angel from the basket of knitted angels made by people across
Penicuik for Hope4Penicuik and Messy church. The families enjoyed
refreshments before leaving the church to start their own Christmas
celebrations.
Earlier that Sunday we saw the nativity story played out at the morning service. You can read about that HERE
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