This week Class 14 became a tranquil Prayer Space.

Below are a list of activities children have been experiencing.  

Thank you to Hugh Boorman and his team of wonderful volunteers who helped run this event.

Little People

We used lots of small cut-outs of human beings to think about the various communities that we’re part of (family, school, a team, a club, etc) and how we feel we fit in.

It gave us the opportunity to give thanks for our communities, to recognize how our behaviour affects those around us and to think how we might help others to feel more welcome.

The Wheelbarrow

We thought about the “rubbish” in our lives. This could be something that we had said, done or thought that we need to say sorry for or our reluctance to forgive someone. It also included unkind things that have been said to us that has knocked our confidence or lowered our self-esteem.

We wrote or drew on a piece of paper, screwed it up and threw it into the wheelbarrow as a way of showing that we want that we want to get rid of that negative feeling and leave God to take it away and deal with it.

Being Brave

We thought about the challenges, worries or fears that we each face.

The children found a template for the letter that their name starts with, drew round it on some coloured paper, and wrote or drew their worry as a way of asking for help to face it. Then we made bunting of all the bits of paper.

Global Prayers

We talked about being part of the worldwide community. Several children talked about how our plastic was getting into the oceans all over the world.

We had a large map of the world and the children could place an LED candle on a particular country to show that they would like God’s light and goodness to shine into that country.

Prayer Wall

We learnt that there’s a wall in Jerusalem where people for 2,000 years have been requests, comments and questions so we had our own version of that where children could write anything that they wanted.

Quite a few wondered how old God is. Several were looking forward to meeting a new member of their family. Others asked why people are unkind to each other. One hoped that a certain president might become nice.