New Sunday Morning Children’s Group

For Easter this year we had several children’s groups and services where we had fun learning about the Easter Story and all that Jesus did for us.

Palm Sunday:

After our procession into the church the children then left the service to shout a few of their own, ‘hosannas!’ in the Link. We learnt about how Jesus is a very special king and talked about why he used a donkey to ride into Jerusalem rather than an elaborate carriage. Crafts this session included decorating material palm leaves, sun catcher crosses, Easter cards and we started making the eco bishops hats for the Coronation parade!

Good Friday:

At 10.30am on Good Friday families arrived at St Bartholomew’s Church for our Easter Special session. The morning commenced with a service when we considered the question, ‘What is a great thing you could do with your life?’ As you can imagine we had a lot of very credible answers! We then moved on to think about somebody who gave their whole life to help others: Jesus. We discussed that even though Jesus never did anything wrong some people at the time were jealous and wanted to punish Jesus but that this was not the end of the story… The children engaged brilliantly and were particularly pleased to be invited by Rev Chris to hammer a red ribbon, with their name on it, onto the cross that was carried into Haslemere town that afternoon.

Following the service we all moved across to the Link where the children had the opportunity to make their own Easter Gardens. Sophie helped the children to make Jesus peg dolls (design by Sue).

Ruth assisted the children with planting up their gardens with moss, flowers and soil.

Margaret did a fantastic job encouraging the children to decorate the eggs for the bereaved families.

As ever Carol did a sterling job in the kitchen keeping us all well nourished and hydrated!

Easter Sunday:

During the 9.30am Easter Sunday service at St Bartholomew’s Church we had a fantastic number of children join us in the Link where we enjoyed Verity and Sophie telling us about the meaning of Easter with a very interactive and fun talk! Afterwards, the children had fun finding eggs hidden around the Link – which they were extremely adept at!

Crafts this morning included decorating mosaic crosses, colouring felt Easter scenes, scratch art scenes and cross-stitch crosses. As well as Easter sticker scenes for the younger children and Easter cards. It was a wonderful session enjoyed by all.

During the service Rev Chris blessed the decorated eggs, for the bereaved, and afterwards Linda and members from the Pastoral team distributed the eggs to the families.

Written by Victoria Martin