Please find below a copy of the Annual Report for April 2021 – March 2022 as promised.
Please do take time to read the report and praise God for the many blessings we have received throughout the year and pray for wisdom and guidance as we deliver our Mission Plan for Greasby Methodist Church 2021-23
It was a joy to welcome over 100 children and staff to our annual Hope Journey Cross Factor Thursday 31st March
Following the welcome and introduction, the children participated in 6 workshops
The Easter Story using a jig saw puzzle, which puts Jesus at the heart of the cross. We discussed the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday, The garden of Gethsemane, how Jesus was arrested and taken to the high priest’s house, before being taken to Pilate who ‘washed his hands of the affair’, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
What is Easter? – during which the children explored the significance of Palm Sunday (acting out the triumphant entry into Jerusalem), Maundy Thursday/The Last Supper and the significance of Jesus washing the feet of the disciples, the symbolism of bread and wine at communion. This provoked many questions about our Christian faith, who Jesus really was and why he had to die on the cross
I was there! – a Roman Soldier told us his experience of being in Jerusalem during Holy Week and how he felt when being told to go and arrest Jesus, whom he believed to be a good man who had performed miracles and healed people. He thought Pontius Pilate would do the right thing and free Jesus – but he did not. And he was shocked and delighted to meet an angel at the tomb who said Jesus was alive. The children discussed how that Centurion felt during the events of that week
Death to life – We thought about how some things can look dead – but are brought back to life – like a bulb before it grows into a beautiful flower and a chrysalis before it becomes a pretty butterfly. As Christians, we believe that Jesus rose again and is alive and with us today and every day in our lives. We discussed what we may like to change in our own lives, in our community and in the world and the children wrote their thoughts on leaves which are displayed on the communion table
A look at some Crosses from around the world (Roman, Crucifix, Palm, Celtic, Salvadorian) and why we share Palm crosses on Palm Sunday and the children started to design their own cross
In addition the children enjoyed designing an Easter card whilst sharing in some refreshments
This year our gift bags contained a number of items including
The Journey through Holy Week as a take home leaflet (see above) so that the children could colour the images whilst they shared the story with families
The Greatest Miracle of All – Easter story from the Bible society
A Palm Cross
A small chocolate easter egg to remind us of the stone which had been rolled away because Jesus is Alive
An invitation to Easter Eggstravaganza and Easter services, and a Say One for Me prayer card
Please come and join us at our monthly Service on second Sunday of every month, 2.30-4.00pm
We would love to see you again on Sunday 10th April from 2.30
Do come and join us for an exciting treasure hunt (with prizes), the Easter story, singing with the puppets, prayers and Easter treats (including chocolate easter cakes and hot cross buns of course!) No charge and no need to book, just turn up and have fun
What a joy to be able to share Epiphany – Journey with the Kings with over 90 Year 1 children from Greasby Infant School (morning) and Brookdale Primary School (afternoon) on Thursday 13th January
This year we were able to follow the usual programme. Following our welcome and introduction
The children completed a Journey to School map, drawing all the things they had noticed as they walked to church. This created the context of journeying
We introduced our three ‘very special friends’ who had travelled a long, long way to share their story and we watched the puppet sketch of the three magi retelling their experiences of travelling and meeting the baby Jesus
We talked about the significance of gold, frankincense and myrrh as gifts for a future King
and about gifts which would be suitable to give to a baby and what we can give Jesus as our gift (being kind, looking after each other eg helping someone who falls over, sharing toys and sweets, even helping parents by keeping our bedroom tidy!)
We sang Our God is a Great Big God – with gusto!
The children then completed three workshop activities which included writing or drawing our gift(s) to Jesus on a star which was glued onto their journey map; playing the ‘Build a Magi’ game (bit like a beetle drive) whilst enjoying refreshments and a ‘Three Kings’ craft activity
During the plenary we talked about how the magi changed their direction, before we committed ourselves to being the kind of people God wants us to be.
We gave the children gifts too – an Epiphany Prayer card to share with the family at home, an invite to our church activities, the child friendly Say One for Me card, a Meet The Cast (Lifewords) story book which tells the Christmas story and a bag of Haribo Starmix, to remind us of the star the wise men followed to find Jesus and the gifts they took as we share our sweets with each other
We are now looking forward to our next Hope Journey – Cross Factor (Easter story) which will take place on Thursday 31st March, for Year 5 children from Greasby Junior School and Brookdale Primary School.
Sue Elliott
Hope Journey co-ordinator
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We were thrilled when Santa managed to pop into Greasby Methodist Church to join us for breakfast on Saturday 18th December. Despite a rather busy schedule, he arrived about 9.00am to the joyous singing of children and families. Santa was really pleased to hear Jingle Bells and the songs about his reindeer, Rudolf. He listened carefully to all the hopes of the children as we ate a hearty breakfast – it was not only the adults who enjoyed the bacon butties!
To our surprise Santa did not know what we are really celebrating at Christmas so the children gathered around to help Paul tell him the Good News story of how and where Jesus was born, the shepherds called to visit Him first as well as the wise men who brough their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. We shared the news that Good News that Jesus was born to be King of the World. We enjoyed singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Jesus, the best gift that anyone could ever receive. However Santa did have some lovely presents for each of the children, and it was sad when he had to go on his way. But we hope to see him again next year
Sue Elliott
Children and Families co-ordinator
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