Spin-off Assemblies

Series Outline

This series is about how we use words. It's not about vocabulary - but it is about how words express our thoughts, feelings, emotions. We use words at home and the same word may mean something different at school. We use words in some places that we never use somewhere else or at another time. In particular, the way Christians use words in their worship of God is important.  

This series also explores the situations in life when words are not enough - when we can't find the words to express what we really think or feel. What happens then? We hope that people can read our hearts or understand our emotions.  Christians believe that God hears our prayers, but also He sees into hearts - looking for the thoughts and feelings we can't easily explain.

But Christians also believe that what we do say is important - especially to those around us. How else do people around us know that we care?  This series aims to take the children on a journey to discover the importance of what we say and how we say it, and the greater importance of learning to listen to the words, thoughts and feelings of others.

And if we need to think about something more important than that, Christians believe we should take time to listen for God's words in today's noisy world.

Note: These assemblies are in .PDF format and can be viewed, printed or downloaded with Acrobat Reader. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download it free of charge from the Adobe web site.

Assembly

Bible Content

4a. Do you really mean it?
4b. Zacchaeus pictures (Set of 6xA4 colour pictures by Amy Devlin to tell the story: 403kB)

Luke 19:1-10
Story of Zacchaeus

Phil 2:14-15
Stop complaining!

Why are it that sometimes it takes us a long time to and a lot of words to explain what we mean?

Luke 1:5-25
Zechariah is lost for words!

9. When words are not enough