Sunday 6th September 2020 9.00am-9.40am Communion Service 11.00-11.40am Contemporary Service with Sunday School Thursday 10th September 2020 10am Quiet Service for those who are vulnerable or over 70. FOR WHAT TO EXPECT CLICK HERE  AND  READ ATTENDING WORSHIP CAREFULLY

Do, Make, Pray and Sing activities based on Matthew 18.15-20

Choose from these ideas to help the children make connections between the Bible reading and their lives

Don’t get mad, be forgiving 

Play and think about ‘putting things right’

You will need: a simple balance scale (you can make this by hanging a yoghurt pot off either side of a wire coat hanger and hanging it on a rail), different sized stones.

• Place a big stone in one side of the balance scale and challenge the children to add stones to the other side to make it balance.
• Talk about how difficult this is, and how the easiest way to balance the scale would be to take all the stones away.
• It’s like this when someone does something that upsets us – trying to take revenge will never achieve balance. Forgiveness is the only way to put things right.

Gathered groups: the leader could demonstrate this.

Make 

Make a symbol of restored relationships

You will need: a pack of different coloured paper, glue.

• Give each child a different coloured piece of paper. Ask them to think of times they have been wronged or upset by other people, and to tear a piece off their paper for each one.
• As they do this, begin to gather everyone’s torn pieces of paper together.
• When everyone has reflected on how others have upset or hurt them and ripped up their paper, ask the children to work together, using all the pieces of paper to create a mosaic of something beautiful, e.g. a flower, a heart or a butterfly.
• After they have finished, talk with the children about how beautiful things can come from dealing with things that have upset us. Ask: have you ever experienced something like that

  
  A prayer for others 

  Give everyone their building blocks back. Ask them to write a name next to their own of someone they want to pray for. Let them rebuild the tower, saying:
  
  Lord bless…(insert name)
  
  Keep the tower near your bed this week and continue to pray for that person