Children's liturgy Sunday August 20th 2006
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We pray for World Peace.
Today our colour is red. Jesus tells people to drink his blood. He means
he wants everyone to share in his life when he is risen. When we drink
the wine at Communion,we share the life which lasts forever. We hope this
will help us change to be nearer to God.
Change is possible when we know we are loved first just as we are. God
does love us already. |
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Jesus
gave his life, his blood, because he loves us. But in many parts of the
world, we shed each other's blood in fighting. We also hurt each other
day by day, in small and great ways.
We have put red drops on our map of the world, to show some of the places
where people are hurting. We include our own hearts. |
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We
held our own PEACE CONFERENCE.
We asked if we all knew each other, by name, which schools we attended;
if we wanted to do this;
why it helped;
why we sometimes might not want to do this.
We asked if we wanted to get to know more about each other.
We found it helped when we might be frightened of someone, because they
were bigger- then we would know the person was ok. really. We found someone
was sad at school, because they felt they had no friends. Some other children
suggested ways to try to get help and make friends.
Then we thought about whether people in different countries wanted to
know about each other. We thought the people in poor countries, or where
people were dying , might not have enough energy left to make links elsewhere.
We thought about whether people with different beliefs wanted to know
about each other. We decided it would make it easier to live together
if we understood some of the beliefs held by other people. This would
stop us being frightened of them. |
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One
of our senior girls told the congregation back in church about our thoughts.She
did a brilliant summing up. Well done everybody for an excellent discussion. |
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music as we walked back into church was Michael Jackson's 'Heal the World'. |
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