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Leaving assembly

Not just the leaving prayer this year but a whole 5 minutes. Cue balloons. You will need one modelling balloon, preferably a long one, and a pump. Blow it up all the way taking about how we fill ourselves with information over the year. Then let it go, (the children love this bit) and mention that we hope they don’t lose all they have learnt over the summer like the balloon lost its air. Start again.  This time inflate to 3/4 and tie off.  The make the following bubbles whilst talking about all the different, unconnected things one might...

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Going away

Going away

It’s funny the rain, when you’re going away, driving you backwards making you stay. Each raindrop a something forgotten to do, or just one more phone call, or visit or two. Leaving you heavy with burdens behind, yet, given time, evaporates away – much like the worries and cares of the day. So I’m leaving, getting out and going away - I may come back someday, one-day, – Monday? I’ll be Forrest gardening if you need me, with Martin Crawford, down in deepest Devon, just far enough away! Looking for a new perspective, what better than permaculture to give...

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Leaving Prayer

Roll out the Vicar…   my contribution to our leavers service in the school. A Leaving Prayer God we pray: May you who leave this place: Take with you every blessing you have received here: Blessings of friendship Blessings of memories Blessings of knowledge And may you who leave here today to begin a new journey, leave us your blessing; your uniqueness, the mark you leave on this place that is only you. May you all be refreshed this summer, Teachers, Pupils, Support Staff, and parents, So when term begins again, You may all meet new challenges, new places,...

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  • Hands on the rail

    Today was the first day of the new term. Along with the hour and a half Methodist covenant service which normally accompanies the beginning of the spring term, there was a really good insightful sermon by the newly licensed member of staff, ending with the words from the Iona community’s morning prayer: ‘We will not offer to god, offerings that cost us nothing.’ However, it was not that, that struck me the most today. Whilst on the rural ministry project, one of the incumbents said that during the distribution of communion he rarely met peoples eyes, but looked at their hands. Far from the thoughts of not dropping the host, he was concerned with the story the hands of those at the communion rail told I suspect ours today, mine included, would be a little too well manicured and clean to be at home in many churches he ministered to. Perhaps though, it is the clean and well manicured hands that are the dirtiest of all.

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