Katrina tells us about Messy Church in Penicuik
TAlison Cole tells us more
The praise band strike up another song
Ann Dunsire presents the gift from Estonia
The prayer requests on the tree. |
| | | Praise Service Sunday 19 August 2012
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Report and photos Jim Paterson
The
Praise Band from Left to Right: Joan Cape (vocals), Sam McDonald (drums), Neil Cape (bass guitar), Carolyn Toms (Guitar and vocals),Stephen Elson (Guitar) and Graham
McDonald (piano).
The
evening of Sunday 19th August continued the summer celebration theme of
the day with another joint Penicuik churches praise service, building
on the event held in July. Joan Cape led the service, and provided
vocals in the group, while husband Neil played bass guitar for the
praise team. Joining Neil were Carolyn Toms and Stephen Elson on guitar
and vocals, Graham McDonald on piano, and Graham’s son Sam
McDonald on drums.
Following two hymns to open the service Joan
introduced the theme for the evening, Messy Church, together with a
video clip where founder Lucy Moore explained how it all started.
Katrina McDonald then told us how she got involved in setting up Messy
Church in Penicuik, and how it is non denominational, so that anyone
can come
along and be involved, and how it is developing.
 After
singing “Gonna Trust in God”, Alison Cole from St. James
the Less told us what being involved with Messy Church means, and how
people of the various churches in Penicuik can help with the
activities, crafts, bible stories, and the meal that forms an important
part of each gathering.
Ann and Andrew Dunsire then took time to
tell the children of their trip to Estonia and the gifts and messages
they took from the children of Penicuik. Ann had with her a large box
with gifts from Estonia for the children of Penicuik. Opened later, the
box, labelled “With Love from Russia” contained small
sculptured models made during the summer camp. You can read about Ann
and Andrew’s trip to Camp Gideon here
 Following
the singing of “Here I am” the congregation and children
spent some prayer time together, some creating messages to hang on the
cross and the tree at setup at the front of the church.
The Praise band led more songs before we finished and enjoyed some light refreshments in the church.
Everyone enjoyed their evening, which hopefully we can repeat sometime later in the year.
Gift from Estonia
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